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"That," said Hamilton Spence, with resignation, "that must be father having a fit!" Letter from Professor Hamilton Spence to his friend, John Rogers, M.D. DEAR Bones: Chortle if you want to your worst prognostications have come true. The unexpectedness of the sciatic nerve, as set forth in your parting discourse, has amply proved itself. The dashed thing is all that you said of it and more.
It seemed for a moment as if she might get safely past the Carolinians and out to sea, with the Queen as her only antagonist. Probably Bonnet had counted on the unexpectedness of his maneuver to accomplish this result. But if so, he had left out of his reckoning the character of William Rhett. That gentleman hesitated not an instant, but headed upstream directly toward the enemy.
She stared as if he were a vision, so startled by the unexpectedness of his being there that no words came to her. "Where were you going? Had you forgotten that I was coming?" he continued, trying to draw her to him; but she shrank from his embrace. "I was going away I don't want to see you I want you should leave me alone," she broke out wildly.
I accordingly opened the door and was about to enter, when something like a mass of black tapestry as it appeared disturbed by my sudden approach, fell from above the door, so as completely to screen the aperture; the startling unexpectedness of the occurrence, and the rustling noise which the drapery made in its descent, caused me involuntarily to step two or three paces backwards, I turned, smiling and half ashamed to the old servant, and said, "You see what a coward I am."
He still puzzled her a little at times; there were odd flashes of depths she could not see into, a quality of unexpectedness in things he would do and say. Even so, granting that in him was embodied so much that other men she knew lacked, she did not love him; there were indeed times when she almost resented him. Why, she could not perhaps have put into words.
Hardly a day passed without some new and unusual demand, until learning to stand up and sit down at the same time was almost a necessity. Had my own life lacked absorbing interest, Jane Gray's activities would have furnished an inexhaustible supply. As she grew stronger and could come and go at her pleasure, her unexpectedness upset my systematic household to the point of confusion.
With a cry of rage Bobbie was about to spring at Alec when Dick got in his way. 'For God's sake, let us have no scenes here. And you'll only get the worst of it, Bobbie. Alec could just crumple you up. He turned to the two men who stood behind, startled by the unexpectedness of the quarrel. 'Take him away, Mallins, there's a good chap. 'Let me alone, you fool! cried Bobbie.
Elizabeth was walking toward the house which was to be hers, oblivious of time and place, almost unconscious of the man at her side, stunned by the unexpectedness of this precious gift of love which had just been offered her. As they stepped upon the little back porch, he said: "I brought you over to ask your advice about the stairway; the carpenters want to leave one step in the sitting room.
A little in the open Baree saw Maheegun, with a big gray wolf standing near her. He went to her again, and this time she remained with flattened ears until he was sniffing her neck. And then, with a vicious snarl, she snapped at him. Her teeth sank deep in the soft flesh of his shoulder, and at the unexpectedness and pain of her attack, he let out a yelp.
"I sink it's very naughty to wish like that!" A tiny, reed-like voice burst into the conversation with an unexpectedness which made the three sisters start in their seats; a small figure in a white pinafore crept forward into the firelight, and raised a pair of reproachful eyes to Norah's face.
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