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The fact is, madame," said Prudence, lowering her voice to a confidential stage whisper, "she never seemed fond of him at all, and wouldn't have been married, I think, if she could have helped it." "Could have helped it? What do you mean, Prudence? Nobody made her, did they?" Prudence fidgeted, and looked rather uneasy.
At times a cold shiver passed right through his frame. He fidgeted and lolled from one side, to the other. It seemed to him that he had waited hours for the signal to get over the trenches. He tried to strike a match for his pipe; his hand was trembling furiously.
She had read the grey mare's mind, and now Christabel, delicately blue and pink and white, in a wrapper of silk and lace, her hands fidgeting each other as they had fidgeted the mare's mouth, thought she was reading the mind of Rose. She stared at her, fascinated but not afraid. There were things she must find out.
Young Doane started violently, then recovered himself and laughed away his confusion. "How'd I know what ther riders says?" he demanded. "We don't traffick with 'em none at our house." But Parish Thornton continued to bore with his questioning eyes into the other face until Pete fidgeted.
He gave me a shove across the threshold, while the door closed itself silently behind us. He took me into a room which was not unlike a marine store of the better sort. In the middle of the room a table was laid for dinner. Mr. Jermyn made me eat a hearty meal before starting, which I did. As I ate, he fidgeted about among some lockers at my back.
You'll begin to tell me all you can about the Towers, won't you?" she continued, bending slightly forward and laying her fat hand on Nora's slim white arm; "and so you really are a Lorrimer? How profoundly interesting." Nora fidgeted restlessly on her sofa. "I'm a Lorrimer," she said at last in a steady voice.
"And your friend has contemplated ruining his football career in the same manner, has he?" he asked politely, turning his gaze as he spoke on Paul. The latter fidgeted in his chair and looked over a trifle defiantly at his room-mate. "I had thought of going to Erskine," he answered. "In fact" observing Neil's wide-eyed surprise at his choice of words "in fact, I had arranged to do so.
The colour ebbed from the cheeks of more than one; the men fidgeted on their feet. Count Hannibal looked round, his head high. "There is no call for tears," he said; and whether he spoke in irony or in a strange obtuseness was known only to himself. "Mademoiselle is in no hurry and rightly to answer a question so momentous.
She was seated on a divan, the tea before her he in a squatter's chair with long arms, in which he sat silent, leaning forward, his hands on the chair-arms, his eyes fixed upon her. She avoided looking at him. Her small sun-browned hands fidgeted among the cups. If anything remained of her anger and emotion, she hid it under a ripple of absurd housewifely chatter, not waiting for him to answer.
He fidgeted, turned about, laughed. "Why should it vex me? After all, Warburton is such a thoroughly good fellow, and if he makes money " "Money!" "We do find it useful, you know," insisted Franks, with a certain obstinacy. Rosamund was standing before the picture, and gazing at it. "That she should have no higher ambition! Poor Bertha!"
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