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She is about eighteen inches long, with a bushy tail about another eight inches, her blackish-brown body about as big round as a big man's wrist, and she has a "business-looking" face and jaw. Did you ever try to take the young minks from their nest in the latter part of April and did Mrs. Mink fight?
At that moment a footman entered the breakfast parlor and handed a business-looking card to the duke, saying, with a bow: "If you please, your grace, the person is waiting in the hall." "By your leave, Lady Belgrade? Sims! show the man into the library, and tell him I will be with him in a few moments. It is Detective Setter," said the duke, as he arose and left the breakfast parlor.
Sheriff Knox was a big man, with a bluff, kindly manner, and a voice that made nothing of closed doors. He returned Auntie Sue's greeting heartily, and, with one of his companions, a quiet, business-looking gentleman, accepted her cordial invitation to come in. The third man of the party remained near the saddle-horses at the gate.
She was to stand at the head of a saddle-horse, as yet embryonic. She stepped hastily to a little desk and poked at a formidable pile of business-looking correspondence. "Do these look like an artist's communications?" she asked in the dry pent way that goes with burning eyes.... "They are not, but letters to one who paints for lithographers' stones! See here "
"What are the precise symptoms of a young lady's being dead in love?" asked the quiet, business-looking Theodore St. Leger. "Oh, you know well enough what I mean. You may say what you please about Helen de Vaux not caring for him, I know better," continued the young lady, in a voice that might be heard on the other side of the boat.
However, he attacked the problem boldly, and, altho his tower was a plain, business-looking structure, it would have been impossible to conceive a design capable of meeting the peculiar requirements of the situation more efficiently. It "was a cone, wrought in timber, built upon a stone and wood foundation anchored to the rock, and of great weight and strength.
It goes to prove what I have repeatedly maintained, that we live in the midst of history and mystery and romance; and that there is no spot in the world more rich in themes for the writer of historic novels, heroic melodramas, and rough-shod epics, than this same business-looking city of the Manhattoes and its environs.
Mr Bonney elbowed his way briskly upstairs, receiving in his progress many low bows from the waiters who stood on the landings to show the way; and, followed by Mr Nickleby, dived into a suite of apartments behind the great public room: in the second of which was a business-looking table, and several business-looking people.
A constable, a homely, good-natured, business-looking man, with a warrant against an Irishman's wife for throwing a brickbat at a fellow. He gave good advice to the Irishman about the best method of coming easiest through the affair. Finally settled, the justice agreeing to relinquish his fees, on condition that the Irishman would pay for the mending of his old boots!
The Opposition sullen in ditches and at the doors of saloons, or in the fields truculent as their own cattle nevertheless had lowered their crests and buttoned their coats over their revolutionary red shirts when SHE went by. As she was stepping from the threshold, she was suddenly confronted by a brisk business-looking man, who was about to enter. "Just in time to catch you, Mrs.
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