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And I know they haven't thought that Eleanor was trying to get anything out of them." Madeline sighed mournfully. "In Bohemia people don't think that sort of thing," she said. "It complicates life so to have to consider it always. Good-night, Betty." "Good-night," returned Betty cheerfully. "Don't forget that the senior 'Merry Hearts' have a tea-drinking to-morrow."
"Don't know?" "Yes. Look here." Together they bent over the list. "You see, very few Christian names are given. They're nearly all Mrs. or Miss." Tommy nodded. "That complicates matters," he murmured thoughtfully. Tuppence gave her characteristic "terrier" shake. "Well, we've just got to get down to it, that's all. We'll start with the London area.
I am quite persuaded that they will soon be sick of the English, who are now arriving, broken down, without arms or money, and obviously incapable of holding out very long. Doubtless, however, this English alliance, and the determination of the Queen to do her utmost against us, complicates matters, and assists the government of Holland and Zeeland in opposing the inclinations of their people."
As I did not particularly wish to be the confidant of this love-lorn shepherd, I said nothing more. Randall lit a cigarette. "I hope I'm not boring you," he said. "Not a bit." "Well what complicates the matter is that her father's the most infernal swine unhung." I started, remembering what Betty had told me. "I thought," said I, "that you were fast friends." "Who told you so?" he asked.
"And I!" cried Jess. "It came from down the canyon where those coyotes are," went on Peggy. "That's right, sis, and it complicates our search," said Roy, "but we've got to go on now. You girls wait here for me while I investigate, and and you'd better take those rifles out of the other aeroplane." "Oh, Roy, you're not going alone?" Peggy appealed.
But the Swifts are not confined to this district, and caves containing them have been found far in the interior, a fact which complicates the still unexplained mystery of the composition of their nest; and, notwithstanding the power of wing possessed by these birds, adds something to the difficulty of believing that it consists of glutinous material obtained from algæ.
"Perhaps so, but if she did she was out of her head. It is too bad, for it complicates matters." "By your telegram I see that you want me to turn to something else," went on Charles Vapp, after a pause. "I do." Adam Adams drew a long breath. "Charley, wonderful things can happen in twenty-four hours." "I know that, Adam." "Last night I was doomed to die.
He moves toward us, then away at times, just as he does to right and left." "Hm," sighed Curlie, resting his chin on his hands. "That's a new dodge, this moving business. Complicates things, that does." For a time he sat in a brown study. At last he spoke again, this time quite as much to himself as to the other: "Folks don't move unless they have a way to move.
I have every reason to believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help to-night." "At what time?" "Ten will be early enough." "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket."
It was Lady Bellamy's turn to start now. "Ah!" she said, "I did not know that; that complicates matters." And then, with a sudden change of tone "Mr. Caresfoot, as a friend, let me beg of you not to throw away such a chance in a hurry for the sake of a few nonsensical ideas abut a girl. What is she, after all, that she should stand in the way of such grave interests as you have in hand?
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