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The merest tinge of relief stole over her face, faint as the first thin chirp before daylight. "Is it so very difficult?" she asked tentatively. "Not insuperably, I hope." She sat silent, her eyes on the picture. At length, with an effort, she brought out: "Shall you want more sittings?"
The geometrical test of identity has hitherto been the only one which it was possible to apply to comets, and in the case before us it may fairly be said to have broken down. We may, then, tentatively, and with much hesitation, try a physical test, though scarcely yet, properly speaking, available.
By the river had come the judge, tentatively hopeful, but at heart expecting nothing, therefore immune to disappointment and equipped for failure. By the river had come Mr. Mahaffy, as unfit as the judge himself, and for the same reason, but sour and bitter with the world, believing always in the possibility of some miracle of regeneration.
So she remarked, tentatively: "It would be so pleasant to see dear old Quogue again." Her hypocrisy made her flush. Edwards rose abruptly from the table and wandered about the room. At length he said, in measured tones, his face averted from her: "Of course, under the circumstances, we cannot visit Quogue while your uncle lives unless he should send for us."
The fog had closed in behind him as heavily as in front, shutting off all possibility of retreat; all about him in the darkness was a confusion of voices cheerful, dubious, alarmed, or angry; now and then a sleeve brushed his or a hand touched him tentatively.
"Yes," said Gordon, nodding his head in assent, "I was thinking of a particular story. It is as complete, I think, and as dramatic as any of those we read. It is about a man I met in Africa. It is not a long story," he said, looking around the table tentatively, "but it ends badly."
"To work that out properly would take several years!" the latter said tentatively. "I thought it would," said Colin, "but perhaps some one else could carry it on, and the work ought to be done, anyway." "You have the right idea," the director replied; "it's the problem, not the man who solves it. Now," he continued, "I have a surprise for you. Dr.
Alas, however, the times when she was so were yearly growing rarer. Kate went on tentatively: "I think I'll 'cut' for a hard winter. You know my motto, 'Better be sure than sorry." "I wouldn't be surprised if 'twan't a humdinger last winter was so open. I think we'd be safer if we ship everything that's fat enough."
The unexpectedness of the reply acted as a silencer on Arbuthnot for a few minutes, and the girl beside him seemed in no hurry to break the silence. The dance was over and the empty garden was thronged for a little time. Then the dancers drifted back into the hotel as the band started again. "It's rather jolly here in the garden," Arbuthnot said tentatively.
"And she do say," put in Jake Brewer, grasping a large pickerel and thrusting his blade into its quivering body after removing the scales, "that it hurts her insides to see the critters wriggle under the knife. She air that bad too." Ben Letts scratched his head tentatively.
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