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The young man interpreted the expression of his face aright, and favored him with a meaning glance. "We came alone," he supplemented. Mr. Birnes silently pondered it. "All that being true," Chief Arkwright suggested tentatively, "perhaps you can give us some information as to the diamonds that were stolen? How much were they worth? How many were there?"
Maybough meant walking out or driving out; young people did both in Pymantoning. Mrs. Maybough pursued: "We receive on Thursdays, but we have a few friends coming in to-morrow afternoon, and we should be very glad to see you, if you have nothing better." The invitation was so tentatively, so gingerly offered in manner, if not in words, that Cornelia was not quite sure it had been given.
So, at about eleven-thirty that night, Dion made his way to their spare room, walking tentatively lest a board should creak and awaken Rosamund. Everybody had missed her and had made inquiries about her, except Mrs. Clarke and Daventry. The latter had not mentioned her in Dion's hearing. But he was very busy with his guests. Mrs.
"Now he might be tricky," Collins announced, "but he's got to kiss my foot and the stick just the same. Watch!" He lifted and advanced his left foot, not tentatively and hesitantly, but quickly and firmly, bringing it to rest on the lion's neck. The stick was poised to strike, one act ahead of the lion's next possible act, as Collins's mind was one thought ahead of the lion's next thought.
"What is the cause?" she asked meaningly. "France," was the quiet reply; and there was a strong ring in the tone. "Not so you, monsieur!" "You called me 'sire' once," he said tentatively. "I called my maid a fool yesterday, under some fleeting influence; one has moods," she answered. "If you would call me puppet to-morrow, we might strike a balance and find what should we find?"
Here's a lover for you. And then it says to the girl that's picking and choosing among her beaux, 'Drop that flirting, I've got something better for you. Here's a husband and a home! And so it goes. Instead of getting poorer all the time, we're getting richer." She looked at Annabel tentatively. She was not altogether sure that her eloquence was having effect.
But after their caller had gone she faced the minister with indignant eyes. "Why did you let her?" she demanded. "Why did you spoil it all by that?" "Because she was Miss Olivia," he answered, gently. "Yes yes, I suppose so," reluctantly; "but, anyway, you needn't have let her do it in advance. Actually it made me blush, Robert!" The minister rubbed his cheeks tentatively.
Next, Lamai tied him securely with a sennit cord about the neck and untied the cords that bit into his legs. So numb was Jerry from lack of circulation, and so weak from lack of water through part of a tropic day and all of a tropic night, that he stood up, tottered and fell, and, time and again, essaying to stand, floundered and fell. And Lamai understood, or tentatively guessed.
He had made a most remarkable recovery, and Nema didn't even seem surprised. He tentatively touched foot to floor and half stood, propping himself against the high bed. "Come on," Nema said impatiently. "You're all right now. We entered your sign during the night." She turned her back on him and took something from a chest beside the bed. "Ser Perth will be here in a moment.
When I introduced Dian as my wife, he didn't quite know what to say, but he afterward remarked that with the pick of two worlds I could not have done better. Ghak and Dacor reached a very amicable arrangement, and it was at a council of the head men of the various tribes of the Sari that the eventual form of government was tentatively agreed upon.
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