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"What sort of fanaticism has been at work here, Mrs. Randolph?" the Captain enquired. "The usual kind, of course; religious fanaticism. It seems to be catching." "I have been in dangerous circumstances to day, then," said the Captain. "I am afraid I have caught it. I feel as if something was the matter with me." "It will not improve you," said Mrs. Randolph drily. "How has it wrought with Daisy?"
"Well, you gave a mighty good imitation of it," replied Tom drily. "Seems to me it was about an even thing, and I'd forget it, Steve." "Maybe you would," muttered Steve, "but I don't intend to." It was almost half-past nine when they got back to the room.
"I have turned it over in my mind a dozen times," said Uncle Dick, "and sometimes I have thought that it would be an injustice to the boy, sometimes I have concluded that with his taste for natural history, his knowledge of treating skins and setting out butterflies and moths, it would be a shame not to give him every encouragement." "How?" said my aunt, drily.
'The last confessions of men about to die are generally trustworthy, remarked Rex rather drily. 'Of course of course. She wondered what other communication the letter had contained. 'Exactly, and you may rely upon the exactness of what I tell you. My poor father had no reason for deceiving me, nor was he a man to deceive any one.
"Because, like the Athenians, you live to see or to hear some new thing." "It wasn't his newness that made me like him; I liked him because he was so interesting. I do adore interesting people! I hadn't known him five minutes before he began to talk about really deep things; and then I felt I had known him for ages, he was so very understanding." "Indeed," Christopher said drily.
I am sitting up for him to-night simply because I know he'll want to tell me about it all when he comes in." "It's a good habit for a wife to cultivate," returned Miss Chris, shaking the raisins together. "If my poor father stayed out until four o'clock in the morning he found my mother up and dressed when he came in." "I should say it was 'poor' grandmamma," commented Eugenia drily.
"Then you think there's more future to that sort of thing than the sort of thing the rest of your friends go in for law, and wholesale groceries, and banking and the rest of it?" "There is for me," replied Orde simply. "Yet you're merely river-driving on a salary at thirty." Orde flushed slowly, and shifted his position. "Exactly so Mr. District Attorney," he said drily.
"Your most obedient," said Lady Honoria and why should not a lady give as good a reason as a gentleman?" "I don't know," answered he, drily, "but from want of practice, I believe." "O worse and worse!" cried Lady Honoria; you shall never be my physician; if I was to be attended by you, you'd make me sick instead of well."
Didenhover, Cynthy." "I don't desire to meddle with Mr. Didenhover unless I've got to," said Cynthy, with an expression of considerable disgust. "You needn't give no charges to me." "But you'll go with me, Cynthy?" "I s'pose I'll have to," said Miss Gall, drily, after a short interval of sipping tea and helping herself to sweet-meats.
'I want to make a few notes, he said drily, when it was arranged; 'I should be glad to satisfy myself. When the Misses Leyburn were announced, Rose, though the younger, came in first. She always took the lead by a sort of natural right, and Agnes never dreamt of protesting. To-night the sisters were in white.
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