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She was lying quite quietly, taking her morning siesta in the sun; plunged in ruminative thoughts, I supposed, and the temptation was irresistible to go over without disturbing her." "Over her?" said Diana in a maze. "Yes. I counted on what one should never count on what I didn't know." "What was that?" "Whether it would occur to her to get upon her legs, just at that moment."
He is vital to-day and strengthening his hold upon the readers of fiction. The quiet, cultivated folk in whose good opinion lies the destiny of really worthy literature, are, as a rule, friendly to Trollope; not seldom they are devoted to him. Such people peruse him in an enjoyably ruminative way at their meals, or read him in the neglige of retirement.
"You see" her tone became ruminative and confidential "if I give you my name and you report it, there'll be all kinds of a mix-up. They'll come after me and take me away." Banneker dropped a tin on the floor and stood, staring. "Isn't that what you want?" "It's evident enough that it's what you want," she returned, aggrieved. "No. Not at all," he disclaimed.
He went about his work with tight disapproving lips, as if he thought that Nature owed him a debt of gratitude for his tolerance of her ways. Ruminative and critical, he went to and fro in the darkly lovely domain, with pig buckets or ash buckets or barrows full of manure. The lines of his face were always etched in dirt, and he always had a bit of rag tied round some cut or blister.
"The bank raised the reward to eight thousand this week," interposed the ruminative Copeland. "Well, it 'll take money to get him," snapped back the Second Deputy, remembering that he had a nest of his own to feather. "It will be worth what it costs," admitted the Commissioner. "Of course," said Copeland, "they 'll have to honor your drafts in reason."
"Good," concluded the Indian, after a ruminative pause. That night he slept on the ground. Next day he made a better shelter than Thorpe's in less than half the time; and was off hunting before the sun was an hour high.
Outwardly he was calm enough, with the ruminative judicial air befitting the oldest justice of the peace in the county; but, within him, a little something gnawed unceasingly at his nerves like one of those small white worms that are to be found in seemingly sound nuts. About once in so long a tiny spasm of the muscles would contract the dewlap under his chin.
Her lips are such a soft and melting red, the red of perfect animal health. The very milkiness of her skin is an advertisement of that queenly and all-conquering vitality which lifts her so above the ordinary ruck of humanity. And her great ruminative eyes are as clear and limpid as any woodland pool. She blushes rose color sometimes when Percy comes in.
It would have been easier to walk through a hedge of bayonets than to invade that barrier. "Where mangroves grow, puppy," exhorted Brice, "there is water. Salt water, at that. The water runs in far, here. You can see that, by the depth of this mangrove forest. At first glance, it looks like an impasse, doesn't it? And yet it isn't. Because " He broke off, in his ruminative talk.
With which practical reflection he rose to fill and light a briar pipe, his inseparable companion, before grappling with his morning correspondence. This lay in a neat pile at his elbow, and after a ruminative pause devoted to the briar pipe, he applied himself deliberately to its consideration. The first two he examined and tossed aside with a bored expression.
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