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'Whose? The curtness of the counter-question, and the cool, slow manner in which, as he put it, Mr. Grewgious moved his eyes from the fire to his companion's face, might at any other time have been exasperating. In his depression and exhaustion, Jasper merely opened his eyes to say: 'The suspected young man's. 'Do you suspect him? asked Mr. Grewgious. 'I don't know what to think.
Pa looked in her face, and looked at the ground, and looked in her face again, and declared he could never guess. 'Mr Rokesmith. 'You don't tell me so, my dear! 'Mis ter Roke smith, Pa, said Bella separating the syllables for emphasis. 'What do you say to THAT? Pa answered quietly with the counter-question, 'What did YOU say to that, my love? 'I said No, returned Bella sharply. 'Of course.
THE SPEAKER: The honorable member is out of order. The Minister for the Department of Annexations. The House then went into Committee of Supply. Mr. Ayrton entertained his daughter with a description of the scene in the House incidental to the annihilation of Mr. Apthomas. He rather thought himself that his counter-question had been neat.
The answers to your questions may be as unsatisfactory as they will, they may wander wide of the mark; if you only take care that your counter-question shall draw their thoughts and senses inwards again; if you do not allow yourself to be driven from your own position the children will at last reflect, comprehend, learn only what the teacher desires them to learn, and the subject will be presented to them in the light in which he wishes them to see it.
Underneath the picture was printed a portion of the counter-question of Mr. Ayrton, and opposite to it were some verses with a jingling refrain that everyone could remember, and which everyone quoted during the next few days. The firm of publishers who had been fortunate enough to secure the issue of Mr. Courtland's new book were delighted. If Mr.
Gambardella hesitated a moment, for the simple reason that he did not know the answer to the question, and that 'Trombin' alone was evidently not a name, but a nickname. The mere fact that the friends had both once had a right to sit in the Grand Council by no means implied that they had known each other, even by sight. To gain time Gambardella smiled and asked a counter-question.
A critic whose sex is indicated by her usage of the pronoun she instead of they once raised the question. "Why not?" I asked unguardedly. Obviously such stupidity as my counter-question evinced was worthy of some pity. "Why, she was an ah superior sort of a girl; breeding, you know, and all that, or so I have gathered, while he " But I stayed no longer to listen. What was the use?
He scattered an unprepared body of many hundreds, who might have enveloped him, and who would presumptively have stood their ground, had they not taken his handful to be the advance of regiments. These are the deeds that win empires! the argument in his favour ran. Are they of a character to maintain empires? the counter-question was urged.
'No, unless love can make us so. 'Not blood-relatives? 'No. 'Is he not very . . . extreme? 'He is very sincere. 'I presume you are a politician? Miss Denham smiled. 'Could you pardon me, madam, if I said that I was? The counter-question was a fair retort enfolding a gentler irony.
When she looked again, there was no barge, no river, no daylight, and a man whom she had never before seen held a candle close to her face. 'Now, Missis, said he; 'where did you come from and where are you going to? The poor soul confusedly asked the counter-question where she was? 'I am the Lock, said the man. 'The Lock? 'I am the Deputy Lock, on job, and this is the Lock-house.
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