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"I beg your pardon. You are going to Benton, of Wyoming Territory?" Her eyes met mine so completely as well-nigh to daze me with their glory. There was a quizzical uplift in her frank, arch smile. "I am, sir. To Benton City, of Wyoming Territory." "You are acquainted there?" I ventured. "Yes, sir. I am acquainted there. And you are from Benton?" "Oh, no," I assured. "I am from New York State."
The Abbe surveyed him with something of a quizzical half-admiring smile, then addressing the gendarmes he said, "Let him go!" The men looked up astonished, doubting whether they had heard aright. "Let him go!" repeated the Abbe firmly, "I have no accusation to make against him. Had he killed me he would have been perfectly justified! Let him go!"
When I am gone I shall still live in him, and he in turn will live in his children. There! I've muddled it haven't I? as I said I would. But I think" And she looked into her husband's glowing eyes. "No; I'm sure you understand. And when I die, T. A. " "You, Emma!" And he held her close, and then held her off to look at her through quizzical, appreciative eyes.
"And be sure to say I'll come right home if they need me. Now hurry." "Yes, dear." Bertram rose with alacrity. "I'll be back right away." "Oh, but I don't want you to hurry too much," she called after him, softly. "I want you to take plenty of time to ask questions." "All right," nodded Bertram, with a quizzical smile, as he turned away.
Then John Grier looked Tarboe up and down sharply again, noting the splendid physique, the quizzical, mirth-provoking eye, and said: "I can give you a better job if you'll come to Montreal." Tarboe shook his head. "Haven't had a sick day for eight years; I'm as hard as nails; I'm as strong as steel. I love this wild world of the woods and fields and "
He invariably obtruded himself, with quizzical inquiry, half contempt and half respect, on the young Englishman, who gazed round with phlegm upon his fellow adventurers, and made up to the sandy-faced Scot or the cheerful Irishman with his hat on the back of his head, who showed in the throng here and there.
When their food came and Thompson cleaned his plate, then signalled for a second helping while she was barely halfway through, King gave her commanding officer a quizzical look. "Is everything all right, Cap?" "Fine, as far as I know," Thompson said. "I'm just hungry." "Hungry enough to eat two breakfasts when you normally don't eat any." King frowned.
"Good-bye, my dear, it has been so nice this afternoon and all the others." Her tone was a curious mixture of amused defiance and real regret. Ethel stammered something, but in a moment her friend was gone. Upstairs she met Joe with an angry frown, but to her indignant reproaches he replied by a quizzical smile. "Look here, Ethel."
You must have noticed her; she is so dark and tall and stately. And so, also, is dear little Olive Repton " "And so is and so is and so is " laughed Betty, putting on her most quizzical manner. "You must listen to me. The Specialities oh, they're not like any other girls in the school, and it's the greatest honor in the world to be asked to belong to them. Betty, it's this way.
"Kitty Tynan, what a girl you are!" these were the very words she had used about herself a little while before. The song why did it make Mr. Kerry take on such a queer look all at once when he heard it? Kitty watched him striding down the street into the town. Now a voice a rich, quizzical, kindly voice-called out to her: "Come, come, Miss Tynan, I want to be helped on with my coat," it said.
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