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"I'm sorry I startled you. I've been thinkin' over what I said to you this afternoon ... about machinery. You're not to take me too seriously." Henry, his eyes still full of sleep, blinked uncomprehendingly at his father. "I mean, son," Mr. Quinn went on, "that it'd be silly to break up every machine in the world. Of course, it would! You must have thought I was daft talkin' like that.
And you mustn't touch the cairn, because there's a little baby buried there." The young man looked gravely at Pelle. "It's not true what you say! How dare you tell such a lie? God hates a lie. But you're a simple-hearted child, and I'll tell you all about it without hiding anything, as truly as I only want to walk wholly in God's sight." Pelle looked at him uncomprehendingly.
Bill stared uncomprehendingly, then suddenly he laughed. "Oh! Those! Why, I handed them over to father. You see, Dad handed it to me pretty straight that morning. In fact, he er fired me. So I gave him the bonds and " The sentence was never finished. With a glad cry the girl flung herself upon him, and to his unutterable wonder sobbed and sobbed.
If you still have the full estate when the courts get through with you, you'll be all right." Alan shook his head uncomprehendingly. "The way he wrote this it's as if he knew." "Max Hawkes always knew," Gainer said gently. "He was the best hunch-man I've ever seen. It was almost as if he could look a couple of days into the future all the time. Sure, he knew.
She had always been silent, reserved, stoical by nature, accepting what life brought her uncomprehendingly, only instinctively and steadily fighting toward that ideal that had so long ago inspired her girlhood. Now she was awake, quivering with exquisite emotions, trembling with eagerness to adjust her life, and taste its full delicious savour.
I was happier at peace. I rose and warmed myself by the fire. Dale regarded me uncomprehendingly. "You look as if the prospect bored you to tears. I thought you would be delighted." "Vanitas vanitatum," said I. "Omnia vanitas." "Rot!" said Dale. "It's true." "I must fetch Eleanor Faversham back from Sicily," said Dale. "Don't," said I.
She took the piece of paper in her hand, then looked at it and at him, uncomprehendingly. "It concerns a consignment of bitter oranges. I do not want the Witanbury Post Office to know my business." "Yes, I understand what you mean." "It is, as you see, a Spanish telegram, and it will cost" he made a rapid calculation, then went to the sideboard and took out some silver.
Positively my last case!" and once more he banged his hand down on the table. Again the waiter glided up. He looked at the colonel expectantly, and the latter stared at him uncomprehendingly for a moment. "Oh, yes," went on the detective. "You may bring me er just a small glass of claret a very small one." Mr. Kettridge gave his order, and then looked relieved.
"It's all right," she said dazedly, "The shock, I guess. Betty what who is that " "Oh, please don't ask any questions now," Betty begged feverishly. "Just help us, and we will tell you all about it later. This is Professor Dempsey," she added, turning to the broken old man who stood staring at them uncomprehendingly. "He can have Mollie's and my room, can't he, Mrs.
What shall I do?" For one of the very few times in her life when confronted by an emergency the "Little Captain" did not know quite what to do. Grace clung to Betty, murmuring over and over again: "What shall I say? What shall I do?" Amy and Mollie stared uncomprehendingly at one another. Grace still held the telegram that had brought more bad news. Then Betty got her senses in working order.
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