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She noticed also that he drove the car much less recklessly than was his wont, took no chances on curves, slid by no vehicles at hair-breadth space, speeded not at all, and though he kept up a running fire of merry nonsense, had his eye on the road as he drove. So far so good. That spill out on the Florence road wasn't all loss, it seemed. Larry was more baffling. He was always quiet.
"Come, you have got to go with me." Margaret could do nothing but stare at the man before her. He was heavy-set and powerful, and wont to having his own way. "Mr. Styles " she began, but he put his hand over her mouth. "You are sick out of your head," he interrupted. "I know what is best, and you must do as I say. Come on." And he pulled her forward by the hand. "Where to?" "Not very far."
Meanwhile Rad suffered as patiently as possible, and Koku shared his loneliness in the sick room. Tom came to see Rad as often as he could, and did everything possible to make his aged servant's lot happier. But Rad wanted to be up and about, and it was pathetic to hear him ask about the little tasks he had been wont to perform in the past.
But to return, Morton, to return to thy brothers: they have both left me; and the house seems to me not the good old house it did when ye were all about me; and, somehow or other, I look now oftener at the churchyard than I was wont to do.
So cock and hen were wont to roost by night upon one of the trees, being in fear of the beasts, and went forth by day questing food. And they ceased not thus to do till their fear increased on them and they searched for some place wherein to dwell other than their old dwelling place; and in the course of their search behold, they happened on an island abounding in streams and trees.
Then, says I, I hope you are satisfied now, Mr Bradley, with that are ungenteel fall you ginn me. Well, he makes a blow at me, and I dodged it, now, says I, you'll be sorry for this, I tell you, I wont be treated this way for nothin, I'll go right off and swear my life agin you, I'm most afeerd you'll murder me.
He drained his bumper slowly, and made no attempt to relieve the awkward silence that sat upon the company. Truth to tell, there was emotion enough in the soul of him who was wont to be the life of every board he sat at to hold him silent and even moody. Here, after eighteen years, was he again in his ancestral home of Marleigh. But how was he returned?
They scrawled those autographs after dinner, most likely, with their diamond rings, and went reeling afterwards, arm-in-arm, along the village street, singing and swearing, and eager for adventures as gentlemen were wont to be in those famous old times when they drank the king's health more freely than was good for their own.
At the quarter-to-eleven interval, the School had gone en masse to see what it could see, and had stared at the window with much the same interest as they were wont to use in inspecting the First Eleven pitch on the morning of a match a curious custom, by the way, but one very generally observed. Then the official news of the extent of the robbery was spread abroad.
Captain Tugwell, in his pithy style, was wont to divide all human life into two distinctive tenses the long-pipe time and the short-pipe time.
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