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Your man ordered me off the premises" smiling a little "so I didn't hear as much as I should have liked." "Is that a hint?" he asked whimsically. "A broad one. Please take it." He hesitated a moment. Then "Very well," he said abruptly. He rose and led the way into an adjoining room.
He could not, however, help expressing his astonishment at what had fallen from the last speaker; for he had evidently confessed that the Slave Trade was inhuman and unjust, and then he had insinuated, that it was neither inhuman nor unjust to continue it. A more paradoxical or whimsical opinion, he believed, was never entertained, or more whimsically expressed in that house.
"You must come often to see us," said Anne. "I wonder if you'd give that invitation if you knew how likely I'll be to accept it," Captain Jim remarked whimsically. "Which is another way of saying you wonder if I mean it," smiled Anne. "I do, 'cross my heart, as we used to say at school." "Then I'll come. You're likely to be pestered with me at any hour.
Upon this it occurred to me, suddenly, whimsically, and I exclaimed aloud: "Why, I'll just call them up." Half turning to the trunk of the tree where I sat, I placed one hand to my ear and the other to my lips and said: "Hello, Central, give me Mr. Vedder." I waited a moment, smiling a little at my own absurdity and yet quite captivated by the enterprise. "Is this Mr. Vedder? Oh, Mrs. Vedder!
Or, by some genius of memory, to recall the fact that it was on this morning young Spear was to be sentenced for theft. It was a charming morning. The spring was at full tide, and the air was sweet and clean. Mr. Thorndike considered whimsically that to send a man to jail with the memory of such a morning clinging to him was adding a year to his sentence.
"Strange words, those, from a tramp, and I marveled at them. Without more ado we 'got down to business, and it was nearly two hours later when we parted at the gate. In answer to a question of mine, Jim replied whimsically: "'Where do I live while I'm working on this job?
I confess that upon hearing this, I had my strong suspicions of his veracity. Can you explain it any clearer?" Cleek smiled a trifle whimsically, then he nodded. "I can. We were determined to take a sporting chance on being winged by the watchful guards and have a look round behind those flames for ourselves. We did this.
I left him still harping on that string, and suffering, I believe, the only serious attack of mental distress that had ever affected him in the whole course of his life. Behold me, then, now starting afresh in the world, in the character of a portrait-painter; with the payment of my remuneration from my first sitter depending whimsically on the life of my grandmother.
If M. Fille here set fire to a house, you would drop him on the prairie far away from everything and everybody and let him 'root hog or die'?" "Don't you think it would kill him or cure him?" she asked whimsically. The Judge laughed, his eyes twinkling. "That's what they did when the world was young, dear ma'm'selle. There was no time to build jails.
He was thinking of a certain pink-cheeked girl with crinkly black-brown hair and eyes that he had likened to chrysoberyls and he wondered whimsically what had become of her. This was not she.
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