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"Would be," said Briscoe, "if we could catch sight of the golden city." "You'll only see it as I did," cried Brace "in a dream; but you can read about it when we get back home, in some book of imaginary travels." "Perhaps," said Briscoe drily; "but I have more faith than you have, my fine fellow. Just wait and see."
Delancy commented drily, "if you'd only work for the far-off heathen, you'd find it much more satisfactory. You might not do any good, to be sure; but, anyhow, the bad results wouldn't affect you." Cicily got to her feet, without making any reply, and went to the mirror at one end of the drawing-room.
After a long silence, he screwed up courage, and looking up at the sky, remarked: "There's fine weather for the time of year. But the earth will be none the better for it, as the seed is already sown." And then he was silent again. The baron was growing impatient. He plunged right into the subject and said drily: "Then it is you who are going to marry Rosalie?"
Her face was unnaturally thin, with disfiguring hollows underneath her cheekbones; her lips lacked colour; even her eyes were lustreless. Her hair seemed to lack brilliancy. Only her silken eyebrows remained unimpaired, and a certain charm of expression which nothing seemed able to destroy. "You look tired," he said. "Be honest, my dear man," she rejoined drily.
Such arguments were of little avail in Barbary; and when the Dey was told that the French had put their sovereign to death, he drily replied, that "Nothing could be more heinous; and yet, if historians told the truth, the English had once done the same."
"What did they call you, Pete?" I said. "I dunno, Master Nat. You see, it was all furren, and I couldn't understand it; but one of 'em was horrid howdacious: he ran along a bough till he was right over my head, and then he took hold with his tail and swung himself to and fro and chattered, and said he'd drop on my head if I dared to move." "Are you sure he said that, Pete?" said my uncle drily.
"You gave Aunt Victoria plenty of trouble while she was here," Mrs. Caldwell rejoined drily. "Well, that is true, at all events," Beth answered in a broken voice; and then she bowed her head on the old French grammar, and sobbed as if her heart would break. Mrs.
"So, young gentleman! and you're sorry for the night's work?" "I shall see that you are paid the full extent of your losses." "Thank'ee," said the farmer drily. "And, if this poor man is released to-morrow, I don't care what the amount is." Farmer Blaize deflected his head twice in silence. "Bribery," one motion expressed: "Corruption," the other.
Ask me friend Bob Bows here whether Miss Fotheringay's moind is not even shuparior to her person, and whether she does not possess a cultiveated intellect, a refoined understanding, and an emiable disposition?" "O of course," said Mr. Bows, rather drily. "Here comes Hebe blushing from the cellar. Don't you think it is time to go to rehearsal, Miss Hebe?
Sandford if he knew Mr. Davis of Mississippi. He answered Yes, rather drily. I knew the doctor knew everybody. I asked why Preston called him a great man. "Does he call him a great man?" Dr. Sandford asked. "Do you?" "No, not I, Daisy. But that may not hinder the fact. And I may not have Mr. Gary's means of judging." "What means can he have?" I said. "Daisy," said Dr.
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