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She hesitated a moment, smilingly and tentatively, and then held out a bright half-dollar. Leonidas backed from the fence. "I'd rather not," he said shyly. "But as a present from ME?" Leonidas colored he was really proud; and he was also bright enough to understand that the possession of such unbounded wealth would provoke dangerous inquiry at home.
I was anxious about Kitty; indeed, I had thought of coming again to Boomville, for you've heard the news, of course? Van Loo is a defaulter, and has run away with the poor child's money." Mrs. Horncastle had heard the news at the hotel. She paused a moment to collect herself, and then said slowly and tentatively, with a watchful intensity in her eyes, "Mrs. Barker went, I think, to the Divide"
"Strange! strange!" she muttered to herself several times. "I am supposed to be like grandmamma, am I not?" said Beth, as if she read her thoughts. "You are like her," Aunt Victoria rejoined. "But you can be a plain likeness of a good-looking person, I suppose?" Beth said tentatively.
They all look alike to me, but this may be thrilling in spots." Betty approached the motionless old man, whose lean brown forefinger traced the curious black characters in the book before him so slowly that it did not seem to budge at all. "I beg your pardon?" she said tentatively. No response. "I want to ask you " Betty began again, a little breathlessly.
No hard surface collided with the tender little nose he thrust out tentatively before him. The substance of the wall seemed as permeable and yielding as light. And as condition, in his eyes, had the seeming of form, so he entered into what had been wall to him and bathed in the substance that composed it. It was bewildering. He was sprawling through solidity. And ever the light grew brighter.
Nay, we cannot be certain whether the soul may not be the realisation or perfection of the body as the sailor is of his boat." Observe that at the last Aristotle, though very tentatively, leaves an opening for immortality, where, as in the case of man, there are functions of the soul, such as philosophic contemplation, which cannot be related to bodily conditions.
After a longer interval of silence than usual Felicia became aware that Babiche was sniffing excitably. The nervous sniff that had always characterized the wee doggies on days when the carbolic water was ready for the rinsing. Felicia wrinkled her own nose tentatively. Presently she got up and opened the door to the next room. It was empty.
She regarded a stained window, with her head sideways, and tentatively asked him if he remembered the last time they were in that town alone. He remembered it perfectly, and remarked, "You were a proud miss then, and as dainty as you were high. Perhaps you are now?" Grace slowly shook her head. "Affliction has taken all that out of me," she answered, impressively.
Helena half rose from her chair, as she stole a veiled glance at Madison. "It would be wonderful," she said, with a little catch in her voice. "And he it would be the one thing in the world for him. But but it would take a great deal of money." "Yes," said Madison slowly; "at least half a million." Thornton turned toward Madison. "As much as that?" he asked tentatively.
"You can't do it!" Peter called, annoyed at the senseless risk she took when she placed her foot tentatively upon the curved side of a log. "There's no foothold there!" "Come save me!" she shrieked in the old way, with the old laugh of terror and delight.
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