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Marah turned upon him, and the two men faced each other; the others stood expectantly, eager for a fight. "Step into the other room there," repeated Marah quietly. "I ain't no pup nor no nigger-man," said Extry. "You ain't going to order me."
As Isabel left her horse at a livery-stable and walked up the wide clean boulevard towards her friend's house, she met no one on the glaring pavements, although here and there a buggy was hitched, and a patient horse stood with his fore feet on the line of grass beside the concrete, his head under a tree, and his eyes fixed expectantly upon the door of the house.
If you happen to know several, now is the time to tell them. Go ahead, Anne." Nora seated herself again and with the eyes of her chums fixed expectantly upon her, Anne began the secret session. "This isn't a secret that any one told me," stated Anne. "It's something I found out for myself. One of the two persons it concerns doesn't know it yet. Perhaps she will never know."
But Mary V's face turned expectantly toward him from the crowd as he walked nonchalantly around his big tractor, testing every cable, inspecting the landing gear and the elevators and the what-ye-may-call-'ems and then climbing in and trying out his control and pulling down his goggles and settling his moleskin cap and all and then nodding imperiously to his helper not little Curley; he was not big enough to crank his powerful motor but some big guy that had a reach like
My wife has already taken her seat in the motor, with an air of righteous annoyance, of courteously suppressed irritation. The butler is standing on the doorstep. The valet is holding up my fur coat expectantly. I am sensible of an atmosphere of sad reproachfulness. Oh, well!
The blue lines shifted and changed a trifle and stared expectantly at the silent woods and fields before them. The hush was solemn and churchlike, save for a distant battery that, evidently unable to remain quiet, sent a faint rolling thunder over the ground. It irritated, like the noises of unimpressed boys.
I returned to the hermitage, where my friends were expectantly gathered. Conviction was growing on me that some sufficient if exceedingly recondite motive was behind Master's attitude. Remorse seized me that I had been trying to thwart my guru's will. "Mukunda, wouldn't you like to stay awhile longer with me?" Sri Yukteswar inquired.
She paused expectantly, but there was no comment. "You don't seem interested," she frowned, after a minute. Alice laughed. "Pardon me, but I don't know the Lady, you see. Was it a good letter?" "You know her brother." "Very true." Alice's cheeks showed a deeper color. "Did she say anything of him?" "Yes. She said he was coming back to Boston next winter." "Indeed!" "Yes.
Talk to me a little; that will help me to judge." His eye brightened, though faintly. "I will speak, but you shall decide, for all lies in your own hands. I thought this right, and came here determined on telling you so." "Well?" said Agatha, expectantly. "You promised me this hand to-day, believing I was to leave England at once. My not leaving frees you from that promise at least at present.
But learning from the servant that Signor Fane was below, she changed her mind, and chose unhesitatingly from her stock of useful infinitives the appropriate two: "Dire venire." Gerald found her by the fire, her fur-cloak over her shoulders, her woolly afghan in her hands, and the picture on the chair before her. "Well?" he asked expectantly, looking at it, too, after they had shaken hands.
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