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The ancient one eyed his passenger whimsically as the boat stole up to the rungs, so Graeme permitted himself no more than a careless glance at the forbidding ladder and asked, "How about the baggage?"
Well, Skinner, life is certainly full of glad surprises," he announced presently, and added "particularly where that man Peasley is concerned. I never did see the beat of that fellow." "May I see his photograph, sir?" Mr. Skinner pleaded. "Certainly," and Cappy passed it to the general manager, who glanced once at it and smiled down whimsically at Cappy. "Yes, I agree with you, Mr.
Gibraltar is fondly or whimsically known to the invaders as Gib, and I believe it is rather a favorite sojourn, though in summer it is frightfully hot, held out on the knees and insteps of the rock to the burning African sun, which comes up every morning over the sea after setting Sahara on fire.
There were some confused farewells, a gathering up of skirts, and laughter; and in a minute the Royal Navy was standing at the salute before the master of the house. "The lady and I are looking for some twins, sir." Instead of the ready "No" they half expected, the man paused, and smiled whimsically. "Well, what have the little beggars been doing now?" he said.
But there is one thing that has survived and grown with the years, and that, Philip, is your dear friendship." What was it in this unassuming, but no doubt sufficiently conceited and ambitious, young fellow that he should have the affection, the love, of three such women? Is affection as whimsically, as blindly distributed as wealth?
By George, this promises to be interesting." "There it is again!" cried Frank, while Grace strained her eyes eagerly toward the point. "What do you say to paddling over there and having a look?" "It's up to the girls," replied Allen, watching Betty's face eagerly. "What they say goes." "And they say 'go," smiled Betty whimsically. "Do you suppose we'd go back without solving the mystery?
Doctor Frederick Rodebush sat at the control panel of Triplanetary's newly reconstructed space-ship, his hands grasping the gleaming, ebonite handles of two double-throw switches. Facing the unknown though the physicist was, yet he grinned whimsically at his friend. "Something, whatever it is, is about to take place. The Boise is taking off, under full neutralization.
I'll take your togs out and dry 'em in the kitchen. Don't be scared; I'll be right back." In the kitchen he sorted the wet garments and hung them about the cook stove. It was a strange occupation for him and he shook his head whimsically as he completed it. Then he took a flat iron, one of Mrs. Beasley's purchases, from the shelf in the closet and put it in the oven to heat.
One might have supposed that a bloody secret gnawed at the bosom of Fawkes; but his private life was blameless and his past above reproach. His wife acted as charwoman at the church built by Sir Jacques. "Did you not observe a certain nymph among the bluebells, Fawkes?" asked Don whimsically.
"No, unfortunately; so I shall have to take only two or three at a time, and keep them maybe a week or ten days. It's just a sugar plum, Bertram. Truly it is," she added whimsically, but with a tender light in her eyes. "But who are these people?" Bertram's face had lost its look of shocked surprise, and his voice expressed genuine interest. "Well, to begin with, there's Marie.
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