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He was the sort of man that cannot brook rivalry. That the newcomer had been of assistance to Miss Rutherford was enough in itself to stir his doubts. He set himself to verify them. Jess Tighe Spins a Web "Then you left Denver, did you?" asked Charlton suavely. Roy laughed.
Our aim, at present, is to bring closer together your country and Great Britain. Russia hesitates because an actual rapprochement with us is equivalent to a permanent estrangement with Germany." Hagon nodded. "I understand," he said, in a low tone. "I have finished with politics. I have nothing to say to you." "I trust," De Grost persisted, suavely, "that you will be better advised."
Through a pair of folding-doors he could see the dining-room and a conservatory beyond. All this had been paid for by himself and such as he. "Sit down, sir," nodded Brent, suavely. The man continued to stand, growing more and more excited. Had he been a keener observer he would have seen that under Brent's suavity there was a scarcely hidden nervousness.
He had meant to be dignified and calm, but his anger had rushed to the surface, and his words came in a voice that suggested he was on the verge of tears. “I beg your pardon, sir, but I don’t think I quite understand,” said Westby suavely. “You understand well enough. I ask you to leave the room.” “I’m afraid, Mr.
With a polite bow he handed a card in Levendale's direction. "Permit me, sir," he said suavely. "My card. As for the rest, perhaps Mr. Detective here will tell you." "It's this way, you see, Mr. Levendale," remarked Ayscough. "Acting on information received from Dr. Pittery, one of the junior house-surgeons at University College Hospital, who told me that Mr.
Barry ground her teeth together, and luckily the wall of her reception room was of tough stuff or her look would have withered it. She had a mental flashlight of Geraldine serving trippers with ice-cream cones behind Miss Upton's counter. "My dear," she said suavely, "do you sound a little bit snobbish?" "No more than you have taught me to be," was the prompt reply.
"So you are what is known as a gentleman of leisure and independent means?" she said suavely. "Something of the sort." "I am sorry for you, Mr. Delgrado." "I am rather sorry for myself at times," he admitted, and if Joan had chanced to glance at him she would have seen a somewhat peculiar expression on his face. "But why do you call me Mr. Delgrado?"
'I could not permit that mystery to remain for a whole year in the very middle of my block of flats. 'What mystery? Polycarp suavely inquired. During this brief conversation all Hugo's suspicions had hurriedly returned, and he had examined them anew and more favourably. Polycarp? Was it not curious that Polycarp should be acting for both Ravengar and Tudor?... Darcy?
Our holdings are further up stream, and comprise only about the equal of yours." "Three hundred millions are not to be sneezed at," replied Thorpe. "Certainly not," agreed Morrison, suavely, gaining confidence from the sound of his own voice. "Not in this country. But you must remember that a man goes into the northern peninsula only because he can get something better there than here.
His aim was dark to her, but she tasted the compliment which ignored her social eclipse. Redgrave's conversation generally kept on the prosaic levels studiously polite, or suavely cynical. It was a new experience to see him borne on a wave of rhetoric; yet not borne away, for he spoke with an ease, a self-command, which to older ears would have suggested skill rather than feeling.
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