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"It's a forgery, written on my office paper; if that isn't my property, I should like to know what is?" "It certainly ought to be," returned Raffles, sympathetically. "Of course you're speaking of the crucial letter in your case against Fact?" "I am," said Levy, rather startled; "but 'ow did you know I was?" "I am naturally interested in the case."
"Billy," said Susan, taking his arm and walking him along very rapidly, "I'm going away " "Going away?" he said sympathetically. This statement always meant that something had gone very wrong with Susan. "Absolutely!" Susan said passionately. "I want to go where nobody knows me, where I can make a fresh start. I'm going to Chicago." "What the DEUCE are you raving about?" Mr.
"What has happened to you, my darling?" asked the princess sympathetically, and she drew her towards her, putting her arm round her like a sick child.
"Well, it ain't my fault, but my lawful, legal name is Percival Cadwallader Perkins." "Wha-at?" "Percival Cad-wall-ader Perkins. Shall I get yuh something to take with it?" Chip, with his pencil poised in air, grinned sympathetically. "It's sure a heavy load to carry," he observed solemnly. "How do you spell that second shift?" Pink told him, spelling the word slowly, syllable by syllable.
She, who was generally sympathetically dressed, was reluctantly enveloped in a wiry red crochet-work shawl which Bessie had made for her, and had laid resolutely upon her shoulders before she went out. She tried to read, but her eyes ached, and after a time she laid down her book, and her mind went back, as it had a way of doing to Fay.
"Yas, suh, ter kiver de spring house;" and scratching his head he stood for a moment as if in deep thought. "An' look yere, Mr. Starbuck, while I'se gone to the pos' office don't you reckon you kin think up suthin' fur me ter do?" "How willing he is to work," Mrs. Mayfield sympathetically remarked. Kintchin ducked his head at her. "W'y, Lawd bless yo' life, honey, I doan know nuthin' else.
Now that they were separated, she had taken a little kitchenette apartment at the new Melcombe. Her husband was living in the house, she believed, when he was not in the city at his club, "or elsewhere," she added bitterly. "But," she confided as she finished, "it is very lonely here in a big city all alone." "I know it is," agreed Constance sympathetically as they parted.
I nodded my head. One of the nurses led me to a large room on the second floor. As we neared the door a young interne, so the nurse told me, came out. He was thoughtfully polishing his glasses. "I am Warren Thompson, Mr. Felderson's brother-in-law," I explained. "Can you tell me how badly Mr. and Mrs. Felderson were hurt?" He put his glasses back on his nose and looked at me sympathetically. "Mr.
I wonder whether we shall ever eat 'em again." A far-away, dreamy look crept into his eyes. "Does your young lady like cockles?" Doggie asked sympathetically. "Aggie? Funny thing, I was just thinking of her. She fair dotes on 'em. We had a day at Southend just before the war " He launched into anecdote.
To-day there was only a dull murmur of voices a sort of doubting groan. I felt it, Kendricks. It was like Hell, that ride!" Kendricks nodded sympathetically. "I suppose you know that a version of the letter is in the evening papers?" he asked. "My resignation will be in the later issues," Julien told him. "It was pretty well known yesterday afternoon. I leave for the continent to-night."
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