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"I intended coming over to the office before the meeting of directors took place." "It is the same old trouble about bonds, Judge Hildreth. There are not enough of them to go round." The Judge rubbed his hands in simulated pleasure. "Well, that shows good management, Peters, if the public are hungry for our stock." "The public are fools!" said the young man, hotly. "Not at all, Peters.
'Can he expect his adversaries to be tender with him? Cecilia simulated vehemence in an underbreath. She glanced down the page: 'FRENCH MARQUEES' caught her eye. It was a page of verse. And, oh! could it have issued from a Tory Committee? 'The Liberals are as bad, and worse, her father said. She became more and more distressed. 'It seems so very mean, papa; so base. Ungenerous is no word for it.
Very learned persons maintained that they were nothing of the kind, but a sort of concretion, or crystallisation, which had taken place within the stone in which they are found; and which simulated the forms of animal and vegetable life, just as frost on a window-pane imitates vegetation.
They have, however, this drawback, that the friend of law and order, with a seditious past, never has an undisputed authority, and he spends half his time explaining the reasons for his defection, and this is a sore let and hindrance to his subsequent career. The people always elects men swayed by real or simulated passion.
"Miss Field!" said Madame Carter, "we have just had a most terrible a most unexpected blow!" Harriet simulated expectancy. "There is every reason to believe," pursued Madame Carter, majestically, "that my unfortunate daughter-in-law, Mr. Carter's wife, Isabelle, has yielded to the passion of her lover!
I released her from my arms and sat down on the fallen tree, all my blissful raptures turned to a great despondence. Would it always be thus would she continue to embrace me, and speak words that simulated passion while no such feeling touched her heart?
During the last few months they had transferred themselves to the "Malibran," a tall narrow structure resembling a grain-elevator divided into cells, where linoleum and lincrusta simulated the stucco and marble of the Stentorian, and fagged business men and their families consumed the watery stews dispensed by "coloured help" in the grey twilight of a basement dining-room. Mrs.
Somehow she must manage to throw dust in Kitty's keen eyes and a simulated appetite made quite an excellent beginning. She was determined that no one should ever know that she was anything other than happy in her engagement to Roger. She owed him that much, at least.
But to Colwyn it was apparent that his composure was simulated, the effort of a sensitive man who had betrayed a weakness to strangers, for the fingers which held a cigarette trembled slightly, and there were troubled shadows in the depths of the dark blue eyes.
He refused to bring me, anyhow. I managed to worm out of him what your plans were, and the doctor's jitney did the rest." "Well," growled the chief, with simulated indignation, though secretly delighted with Dean's show of spirit, "I suppose there's nothing else to do but to take you along. Climb in there beside Miss Strong." As Dean approached the car Jane rose in amazement. "Oh, Thomas, Mr.
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