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But I can't do it something holds me back, hope, superstition, or whatever you've a mind to call it. You've never seen all of the house, have you?" he asked. The rector slowly shook his head, and the movement might have been one that he would have used in acquiescence to the odd whim of a child. Mr.
Miss Zoë that was the lovely woman's name smiled, and at the same time showed two rows of pearly teeth. "I like your looks," she said, "and I feel inclined to take you into my service, if you are satisfied with my terms." "A lady's whim," her maid said to herself, when she noticed the ardent looks which Miss Zoë gave her manservant, "which will soon pass away."
Presently Detricand added in a composed and nonchalant tone: "I've no doubt there were those at Court who'd have clothed me in purple and fine linen, and given me wine and milk, but it was my whim to work in the galleys here, as it were." "Then I trust you've enjoyed your Botany Bay," answered Philip mockingly. "You've been your own jailer, you could lay the strokes on heavy or light."
Bessie did not at all relish the prospect of the little adventure upon which Dolly's whim had launched her, but she decided to take it with a good grace, since, now that she was in the car, she had to see it through. Once the car was under way, going fast, Mr.
If there is any defect in service then that must be instantly and rigorously investigated, but when the suggestion is only as to style, one has to make sure whether it is not merely a personal whim that is being voiced.
There is trouble, she said to herself, as she heard Mrs. Dinks's reply. "Miss Wayne has been a recluse this winter," remarked Fanny, with infinite blandness. "Yes, she has had some kind of whim," replied Mrs. Dinks, shaking her shoulders as if to settle her dress. "We girls have all suspected, you know, of course, Mrs.
When men passed through the stage where woman's life might be taken at a whim, she remained a creature without rights of the wider kind. Men debated whether she had a soul, made cynical proverbs about her, called her the "weaker vessel," and debarred her from political and economic equality, classing her up to this very moment in rights with the idiot, the imbecile, and the criminal.
If you consider it right to mention them to Rick and Ada," looking seriously at me, "you can. I leave it to your discretion, Esther." "I hope, sir " said I. "I think you had better call me guardian, my dear." I felt that I was choking again I taxed myself with it, "Esther, now, you know you are!" when he feigned to say this slightly, as if it were a whim instead of a thoughtful tenderness.
Madden's hair was tightly drawn back, with a neat part on the left side; she smoked extra large cigarettes, from a man's jeweled case; her voice was coarse, her mannerisms distinctly masculine. Nor was this eccentricity a passing whim; she masqueraded thus so Hayman affirmed whenever she dared, and had once attempted to attend a horse-show in trousers.
The work has gone through many editions; but, after some years the whim seized him to turn it into an official literary history of the period, and he issued it as a "Life and Times," with an abundance of notes and references. All the pleasant air of story telling, the "Life and Adventures," so suited to poor Goldy's shiftless career, were abolished.
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