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Cathcart had hinted too of other things things which he would not amplify of a still more disconcertingly impossible nature matters which Morton had scarcely thought had been credible even to the darkest medievalists; and all this with that same sharp, sane humor that lent an air of reality to all that he said.
But Teodora, the maid, never let him get beyond the parlor. Sometimes Alicia was out, the maid said; again, she was asleep or had a headache, and could not see him. Teodora spoke drily, disconcertingly. If there is any way to sound the good or bad opinion any one has of us, it is surely in the attitude of that person's servants. The student would murmur: "And she didn't leave any word for me?"
Again the lifted lantern light flashed disconcertingly across his face and shoulders. "Why, don't you remember anything?" drawled little Eve Edgarton. "Not anything at all? Why, I must have worked over you two hours artificial respiration, you know, and all that sort of thing before I even got you up here! My! But you're heavy!" she reproached him frowningly.
and was very nearly the old, care-free Charming Billy of the line-camp. It is true that Mama Joy recovered disconcertingly that afternoon, and became once more ubiquitous, but Billy felt that nothing could cheat him of his joy, and remained cheerful under difficulties.
He moved at length, moved suddenly and disconcertingly, freeing one hand to turn her face quietly upwards. She did not resist him, but she shrank as she met his eyes. She fancied she had never seen him look so grim. "And that was why you were crying?" he asked, deliberately searching her reluctant eyes. "That was one reason," she acknowledged faintly. "Then there was something more than that?"
Then with an urgency of manner he turned to Farquaharson. "Stuart, I dislike greatly to ask you to change your plans but you realize the situation. Can't you put off leaving until to-morrow?" The younger man turned slowly and his gaze was disconcertingly piercing, as he asked, "Don't you regard that as a somewhat unconventional suggestion leaving Conscience here with no one but me?
Her cold beauty held the admiration of all women, for she was not eager for men's company, and she kept her poise even with the man in scarlet near her, glacially complacent, beautifully still, disconcertingly emotionless. They did not know that the poise with her was to an extent as much a pose as Charley's manner was to him. "I hate you and despise you for a cold-blooded, selfish coward!"
Beale, disconcertingly, who began to explain it to her friends; it was she who, wherever they turned, was the interpreter, the historian and the guide. She was full of reference to her early travels at the age of eighteen: she had at that period made, with a distinguished Dutch family, a stay on the Lake of Geneva.
But now, to a lone man down there, they would be bleak plains stretching to a disconcertingly near horizon. Frank Nelsen's view was one of fascination, behind which was the chilly thought: This is my choice; here is where I will have to live for a short while that can seem ages. Space looks tame, now. Can I make it all right? Worse how about Lester? Frank looked around him.
"I'm saving her for myself!" snapped the Senior Surgeon most disconcertingly from the doorway. "She she happens to be my wife, not my daughter, thank you!" When the Senior Surgeon went home that night he carried a big bunch of magazines and a box of candy as large as his head tucked courtingly under his arm.
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