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'And I for the tiger. He's gone off, you know. 'Yes. I'm sorry. He shrugged his shoulders unconvincingly. 'There's nothing I can do about it now. I couldn't make him a prisoner. He took off his warm wrappings, refitted the one-piece garment, then sat down on the steps of the altar and began sharpening his sword.
"Why, you poor thing! Man Fleetwood, do you " Val impulsively caught her by the arm. "Oh, hush! I was only joking," she said hastily. "I was trying to balance Manley's wish for fifty thousand dollars, don't you see? It was stupid of me, I know." She laughed unconvincingly. "Let me guess what the surprise is. First, is it large or small?"
The restaurant proprietor unconvincingly declared that he had no idea who'd caused it. But he'd only notified the police so he could collect insurance not from Big Jake. With a sort of morbid, frustrated gloom, Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald made the necessary notes. He put his notebook in his pocket and backed his car out of the alley.
And what was the good of disturbing your mind? But as she told the lie, she told it so lamely and unconvincingly that neither of the other two believed it for a moment. Nelly stood up tottering but mistress of herself. She looked at Farrell. 'Sir William can you take me to Windermere, for the night-train? I know when it goes 10.20.
What exasperated him was Lois's argument that that kind of thing "did him good" professionally, and was indeed essential to the career of a rising or risen young architect, and that also it was good for his health and his mind. He wished that she would not so unconvincingly pretend that self-indulgence was not what it was. These pretences, however, seemed to be a necessity of her nature.
"I was never allowed," said Miss Allonby, unconvincingly, "to go into secluded summer-houses with any one; and, besides, the gardeners keep their beer jugs there under the biggest bench." Mr. Erwyn beamed upon her paternally. "I was not, till this, aware," said he, "that Captain Audaine was so much interested in ornithology.
"Of course, some of it is paid back," Wallace added unconvincingly. Martie shot him a quick, distrustful glance. Ah, if she could believe him! "I have his note acknowledging half of it, seventy-five," added Wallace more confidently. "I'll show it to you!" "I wish you would!" Martie said in cold incredulity.
And since we had come down I had met him constantly in London, often as it seemed by accident. Yet we had never been friends. I had never really liked him. Even at school he had had the beginning of the artificially bullying manner which now seemed natural to him. He had been unconvincingly blunt and insolent.
Ensued a silence during which he chipped at his egg-shell in an absent-minded fashion. "That fellow Kennaston said anything to you yet?" he presently queried. "I I don't understand," she protested oh, perfectly unconvincingly. The tea-making, too, engrossed her at this point to an utterly improbable extent.
John Barclay, the rich man, when his evil course is run, hastily, unconvincingly divests himself of his spoils and loses his life in an heroic accident.
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