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Updated: September 18, 2025
Then just now I distinctly heard the street door shut, so I went down and found the gas alight in the dining-room and the safe open. "'That, said I, 'is what I wish you to find out. Perhaps you will come down and take a look round. There is no one about now. "On this they came down with alacrity, each provided with a candle, all agog, no doubt, to see what success their friends had had.
"Raw," he said, "will you ride in for the doctor?" "He said t'-morrer," the man objected. "I know. But if you'd care to do me a favor you'll ride in and warn the doctor to-night, and then ride out to Widow Dangley's and meet us all there, cachéd in the neighborhood." The man stared; every man in that room was instantly agog with interest.
I don't know what their song was, but they had good voices, and while one of them carried the melody, the other sang a second. Anthony, morose and listless, Adrian, all agog with excitement, had been looking down upon this spectacle for some minutes in silence. It was their first glimpse of daylit Sampaolo. They had arrived from Venice last night after dark.
I wondher, Martin, you haven't got more pluck in you!" "Oh! bother, Meg. You're thinking of nothing but kissing and slobbhering. Anty's not the same as you and Jane, and doesn't be all agog for such nonsense!" "I tell you, Martin, Anty's a woman; and, take my word for it, what another girl likes won't come amiss to her. Besides, why don't you spake to her?"
He would not have attempted it on a man less keen than the doctor. "You're wrong, Doc," he said coolly, and all eyes were at once turned upon him. Every man in the party was at once agog with interest, for not one of them but shared Smallbones' suspicion in some degree, however little it might be. "See here," Jim went on, with a great show of enthusiasm, "do you know this river?
"And you saw somebody on the deck?" "Yes, cap'en," I answered; "a woman." He again interrupted me, all agog at the news. "A woman?" "Yes, sir," said I. "A woman, or rather, perhaps a girl, for she had a lot of long hair streaming over her shoulders, all flying about in the wind." "What was she doing?"
At times, too, the old city was set agog with rumors from the Asiatic provinces opposite that the Sultan was levying unheard-of armies; he had half a million recruits already, but wanted a million. "Oh, he means to put a lasting quietus on Huniades and his Hungarians. He is sensible in taking so many men."
Everyone was well off and reasonably happy, a marked contrast to the state of things a few years later, when dissension over the Dreyfus case rent the country in twain. Newspaper readers may remember that in 1893 the Government of France fell heir to an unexpected treasure which set the civilised world agog, especially those inhabitants of it who are interested in historical relics.
Desiring to surround his visit with the solemnity befitting such an important event, he set out for Loudun at the head of all his parishioners, the whole procession going on foot, in order to arouse interest and curiosity; but this measure was quite needless it took less than that to set the town agog.
It would have been an insult to the intelligence of the most youthful of the loungers-by to have informed them that a wedding was projected. At the neighbouring church all was ready. The clerk stood at the door, the red drugget was down, the usual little crowd were standing all agog upon the pavement.
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