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'Are you sure your London doctor does not object to your smoking so much? Ida asked presently, noting the languid uncertainty of the fingers which held the cigarette. 'I am not sure about anything. I told him I could not live without tobacco, and he said I might smoke two or three cigarettes in the course of the day 'Oh, Brian, and you smoke 'Two or three dozen! Not quite so bad as that, eh?
Lady Delacour got up, and went down to breakfast, in much uncertainty what to think of Miss Portman; but ashamed to let her into her mind, and still more afraid that Lord Delacour should suspect her of doing him the honour to be jealous, Belinda had not the least guess of what was really passing in her ladyship's heart; she implicitly believed her expressions of complete indifference to her lord; and jealousy was the last feeling which Miss Portman would have attributed to Lady Delacour, because she unfortunately was not sufficiently aware that jealousy can exist without love.
Everybody felt that the happenings of those days were merely the forerunners of something yet to come, of something even more startling. And the restlessness of uncertainty as to its nature kept the population hanging about the camp, fearful that, in their absence, things might occur, and they would miss participation in them.
She looked toward the door that opened on the hall; had she heard a footstep outside? No. All was still. Not a sign yet of Horace's return. "Oh!" she exclaimed, "what would I not give to know what is going on upstairs!" "You will soon know it now," said Julian. "It is impossible that our present uncertainty can last much longer."
A great movement was going on to transfer actual participation in government from the few to the many, a movement towards true Democracy, and that was precisely what was about to happen in the Church. Her condition at present was one of uncertainty, transition she feared to let go wholly of the old, she feared to embark upon the new.
Wingfield's statement that the supply left with the colony was very scant, a store that would only last thirteen weeks and a half, and prudence in the distribution of it, in the uncertainty of Newport's return, was a necessity. Whether Wingfield used the delicacies himself is a question which cannot be settled.
Sometimes he spoke in utter uncertainty; at others, as one who wished to believe in Christianity and might perhaps be converted.
Uncertainty and deprivation are the best and only training for a hero, not sure reward paid in popular plaudits. Political economists speak of the productiveness and prospectiveness of capital. We may well borrow these terms, using them in a somewhat modified sense.
About Peter was a sense of ease and rest, of space that was as new to him as America was to Columbus. He was not even now completely recovered from his Bucket Lane experiences and there was still about him that uncertainty of life when one sees it as though through gauze curtains that gives reality to the quality of dreams.
There were some moments of chilling doubt and cold uncertainty, and then came a rush of warm feeling at the bidding of a shy glance from Lady Mary.
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