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"The psychology of this sort of thing is ver-r-ry entertaining," she said to Stephen Lorimer. "Less than five minutes, T. S.," said her stepfather, comfortingly. "You know, I'm afraid you'll think me fearfully dull," said the Englishwoman, conversationally, "but I'm still not quite clear about a 'down. Would you mind telling me the next time they do one? Just when it begins, and when it ends?"
"That's over," I heard him say. A single distant clap of thunder came from the sea like a gun of distress. "The monsoon breaks up early this year," he remarked conversationally, somewhere behind me. This encouraged me to turn round, which I did as soon as I had finished addressing the last envelope.
Until that evening he had conversationally confined himself to recording his impressions of the United States, whose dust he had just shaken from off his feet a country, in his opinion, so barbarous in every way that he had sold practically nothing there, and become an object of suspicion to the police; a country, as he said, without a race of its own, without liberty, equality, or fraternity, without principles, traditions, taste, without in a word a soul.
While he was engaged in this checking, the foreman, Tom North, entered. "The river's rising a little"? he remarked conversationally as he reached for the second set of tally boards. "You're crazy," muttered Orde, without looking up. "It's clear as a bell; and there have been no rains reported from anywhere." "It's rising a little, just the same," insisted North, going out.
Until that evening he had conversationally confined himself to recording his impressions of the United States, whose dust he had just shaken from off his feet a country, in his opinion, so barbarous in every way that he had sold practically nothing there, and become an object of suspicion to the police; a country, as he said, without a race of its own, without liberty, equality, or fraternity, without principles, traditions, taste, without in a word a soul.
I don't think she heard me at first. "Well," I said conversationally, "how is it now?" She turned at the sound of my voice and faced me squarely. I could see that her eyes were bright with unshed tears, and something inside of me moved me with a sudden impulse to go up to her. I placed my hands on her shoulders and was amazed to find how unsteady they were. They trembled, my hands trembled!
"I have met and talked to two princes, both occasions being when I had played at a private musicale at the home of Countess Mariska Esterhazy in Budapest, where I studied in the Conservatory." There was a curious silence among the Winnebagos at these words, which fell so lightly, so conversationally from Veronica's lips.
Coventry making no reply, he continued conversationally: "You never inquired into her past history, I suppose, when you engaged her brother as your agent?" Inwardly Coventry anathematised the promise he had given Ann to keep their engagement secret for the present. It sealed his lips against the innuendo contained in Forrester's speech. "I certainly did not," he responded frigidly.
"And they call this a white-man's country," observed Mr. Smith pensively, as the door closed again. He opened the stove and proceeded to knock the embers together preparatory to stoking up afresh. "Guess you were making for the Pass," he said conversationally. "Yes," replied Grey. "Missed the trail," the other said, pitching a cord-wood stick accurately into the centre of the glowing embers.
The other did not answer, but his silence seemed somehow solid as assent; and MacIan went on conversationally. Neither noticed that both had instinctively stood still before the sign of the fixed and standing sword. "It is hard to guess what God means in this business. But he means something or the other thing, or both. Whenever we have tried to fight each other something has stopped us.
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