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But as soon as he saw the hat coning he would not stay till it came, lest I should put it on before him, but breaking off his discourse abruptly, took his leave of them, and hastened in before the hat was brought to me.

Coning to my office, two or three mornings ago, I found Mrs. , the mother of Mr. , the insane young man of whom I had taken charge. She is a lady of fifty or thereabouts, and not very remarkable anyway, nor particularly lady-like. However, she was just come off a rapid journey, having travelled from Naples, with three small children, without taking rest, since my letter reached her.

Alice came down to lunch in a dress which reconciled the seaside and the drawing-room in an effect entirely satisfactory to her mother, and gave her hand to both the gentlemen without the affectation of surprise at seeing either. "I saw Mr. Munt coning up from the boat," she said in answer to Mavering's demand for some sort of astonishment from her. "I wasn't certain that it was you." Mrs.

One benefit of inclining the rails in this way, and coning the tires, is that the flange of the wheels is less liable to bear against the sides of the rail, and with the same view the flanges of all the wheels are made with large fillets in the corners. Wheels have been placed loose upon the axle, but they have less stability, and are not now much used.

She's quite as pronounced, in her way, as Israel. A very tower of virtue." "I didn't meet anybody, Hugh," said Honora. "I'll I'll look for her next Sunday. I hurried out. It was a little embarrassing the first time," she added, "your family being so prominent in Grenoble." Upon this framework, the prominence of his family, she built up during the coning week a new structure of hope.

The fighting spirit was dead; she was in a state of absolute and complete collapse. She opened her eyes at his coning, but closed them again almost immediately less, it seemed, from any consciousness of his presence than from sheer exhaustion. "I am glad that you are better," he whispered crossing the room to her side. "Thank you," she murmured almost inaudibly.

She remembered how, she had opposed his coning. But honesty as well as something else prompted her to say: "It was my father who invited you." Stephen did not reveal the shock his vanity had received. "At least you were good enough to dance with me." "I could scarcely refuse a guest," she replied. He held up his head.

Mark me, Richard," he said, a restless gleam coning into his dark eyes, "stirring times are here, and a chance for all of us to make a name." For so it seemed ever to be with him. "They are black times, I fear," I answered. "Black!" he said. "No, glorious is your word. And we are to have an upheaval to throw many of us to the top."

Mark me, Richard," he said, a restless gleam coning into his dark eyes, "stirring times are here, and a chance for all of us to make a name." For so it seemed ever to be with him. "They are black times, I fear," I answered. "Black!" he said. "No, glorious is your word. And we are to have an upheaval to throw many of us to the top."

She paused about the middle of the floor, and looked at me with what I can only describe as her wild-beast stare. 'You are a very secrete family, you Ruthyns you are so coning. I hate the coning people. By my faith, I weel see Mr. Silas Ruthyn, and ask wat he mean. I heard him tell old Wyat that Mr. Dudley is gone away to-night.