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She had just become absorbed in her work when a clatter arose from the grade below, and a dozen horses, headed by a tall, rangy sorrel she surmised was Whizzer, dashed down the hill. Weary and Chip galloped close behind. They did not look up, and so passed without seeing her. They were talking and laughing in very good spirits which the Little Doctor resented, for some inexplicable reason.
He surmised that he would receive instructions to rejoin General Lee as soon as possible, and he felt a keen regret that he should not have time to do the thing he wished most to do; but he lost no time in obeying the order. The Secretary of War was in his office, sitting in a chair near the window, and farther away slightly in the shadow was another figure, more slender but stronger.
Jeffcourt was superficially effected, so far as a daily visit by him to the house indicated it to the community, but it was also known that Julia was invariably absent on these occasions. What happened at those interviews did not transpire, but it may be surmised that Mrs.
I'd given ourselves up for lost." "Oh, I came in off the mountain, as there's a big storm due," explained the man. "There was no need of me playing the haunt in daytime, anyhow. I went to the cave, found you and your things gone, and I surmised that you might have walked into some trap." "We did," admitted Mr. Jenks, grimly. "Well, I hunted around until I found you," went on Bill.
There were two reasons for this: Karl's presence and his purpose as yet unannounced, but surmised, and even known and the situation in the city. That was bad. The papers had been ordered to make no mention of the occurrence of the afternoon, but it was well known. There were many at the table who felt the whole attempt foolhardy, the setting of a match to inflammable material.
The other is an achievement that will go ringing down the corridors of time making famous the name of the man who braved with his life the rigors of the South Polar regions to bring back alive a specimen of the strange creature whose existence was surmised by Professor Thomas Tapper, A.M., F.R.G.S., M.Z., and F.O.X.I. Ow! Great Heavens!"
He looked a full-blooded, plethoric person with reddish-blue veins on his florid face, and a heavy jowl which over-feeding, Robin surmised, had made fullish. He was very neatly dressed in his black overcoat with velvet collar carefully brushed, his natty black tie with its pearl pin, and well-polished boots.
When did you hear last?" "I have brought his last letter with me. I wondered if he had told you." "I have heard nothing nothing in particular. What is it?" "The inevitable woman." "She has come at last, has she? Come to stay?" "He is engaged to her." Mr. Thorne breathed his astonishment in a low whistle. "You don't like it?" he surmised at once. "Like it! If it were merely a question of liking!
He could not conceive himself crowned and harping in Paradise, and yet he vaguely surmised that in the last result he would arrive at that place and state, wafted thither by the prayers of his womenkind. Logical in all else, he was utterly illogical in his attitude towards the spiritual an attitude which amounted to this: "Let a sleeping dog lie, but the animal isn't asleep and means mischief."
The very lavishness of her gift brought to him irresistibly the reminder of another offering. . . . . She was speaking. "I don't blame him for what he done I'd have done it, too, if I'd been him. But say, I felt kind of bad when I heard it, knowing about the kid, and all. I had to bring something " Instinctively Hodder surmised that she was in doubt as to the acceptance of her flowers.
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