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Updated: May 5, 2025
Sometimes they twinkled shrewdly, comprehendingly; sometimes they glowed with a steady splendor that seemed to dominate the world. There were nights when the separate stars were blended, to his apprehension, in one great symphony of meaning; again certain ones stood out among the others, individual and apart. There was Jupiter up there.
As for Peggy, she could hardly keep back the tears at the rejoicing of these total strangers over the safety of Dorothy and herself. Jerry had thought this problem out in the toilsome climb from the river. "Say, I want the fastest horse you've got. They're going to telegraph this morning to her folks and I've got to stop 'em." The farmer nodded comprehendingly.
I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears. Mac caught my eye and grinned. "Gold raw gold on the rock above." I mouthed the words parrotlike, and he nodded comprehendingly. "Oh, thunder!" I exclaimed. "Do you reckon that's what he meant?" "What else?" Mac reasoned. "They'd mark the place somehow and aren't those his exact words?
The feeling was far from pleasant, but it was salutary, and stimulus for the first remedy at hand, and the natural depression of impotence did not overcome the exhilaration of curiosity. When she reached Washington Square again, she said something of this to Miss Wardrop, who nodded comprehendingly. "Every one feels that way for a time," she said; "it's like sitting out a cotillion by one's self.
I've given up the stage. Tom" she explained shyly "didn't like it. Now I'm with some people at a ranch near the Fraser, on the Westminster road. There are two or three children, and I'm very fond of them." "She won't be there long," Drayton interposed. "I've wanted to meet you for some time, Mr. Vane. They told me at the office that you were away." Vane smiled comprehendingly.
"Thanks awfully, sir," said Bob, accepting the proffered cigarette. He plunged into his story; and if at times it was a trifle incoherent, principally from honest wrath, yet on the whole Cecilia's case lost nothing in the telling. The lawyer nodded from time to time, comprehendingly. "Aye," he said at last, when Bob paused. "Just so, just so. And why did you come to me, Captain?"
Wally and Harry scurried down the hail. The sound of their merry voices died away, and there was silence on the lawn. Jim rolled nearer to Norah. "Blue, old girl?" "'M," said a muffled voice. Jim felt for her hand in the darkness and found it. The small, brown fingers closed tightly round his rough paw. "I know," he said comprehendingly. "I'm awfully sorry, old woman. I do wish we hadn't to go."
Their owner was dressed unobtrusively in a suit of rough tweed, and this and his black hat, and the fact that he was smooth-shaven, distinguished him as a foreigner. As he faced them the forelegs of Clay's chair descended slowly to the floor, and he began to smile comprehendingly and to nod his head as though the coming of the stranger had explained something of which he had been in doubt.
Bryce accompanied this candid admission with a look which seemed to say: Here we are, three men of the world, who know what things are we understand each other! And while Jettison merely nodded comprehendingly, Mitchington put his thoughts into words. "To be sure, doctor, to be sure!" he said. "And accordingly what's their affair, is yours! Of course!" "Something like that," assented Bryce.
What do you want?" she asked in a low voice, at the same time leading him to the side of the room further away from her lover. Jose Castro's first words were in Spanish, but immediately perceiving that he failed to make her understand, he nodded comprehendingly, and said: "All righta I espeak Engleesh I am Jose Castro too well known to the Maestro. I want to see 'im."
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