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An incident on the way remains engraved on my memory. The train had stopped at some big station. The ticket examiner came and punched our tickets. He looked at me curiously as if he had some doubt which he did not care to express. He went off and came back with a companion. Both of them fidgetted about for a time near the door of our compartment and then again retired.
Undulating across the studio, she returned with a mandolin not the one I remembered, but a pretty bit of workmanship in inlaid wood. Bending above this, she relieved the wait by merry, lilting tunes like the music of a bobolink, while Kitty fidgetted in and out, the puckers in her forehead every minute growing deeper.
There was something tense, exasperated to the point of intolerable anger, in his good-humored breast, as he played the finely-spun peace-music. The more exquisite the music, the more perfectly he produced it, in sheer bliss; and at the same time, the more intense was the maddened exasperation within him. Millicent appeared in the room. She fidgetted at the sink.
His hand, too, shook as if he had the palsy, and he chattered and fidgetted like a man with St. Vitus's dance." "Did he, my lord?" quoth Tom Thurnall, when he heard the same, in a very meaning tone.
The chapel was very packed and hot." "It was conscience. Why won't you be frank with me?" "There's nothing to be frank about." The minister looked steadily at him, and Dean flushed still further and fidgetted uncomfortably. "I must be getting back to my carriage," he murmured. "The Lord has brought you to me a second time. There may never be a third time. The Lord has "
Lucy fidgetted a little as she stood by the dressing-table, took up one knick-knack after another and put it down. At last she said 'Do you mind my asking you a question? Mrs. Burgoyne turned in surprise. 'By all means! What can I do? 'Do you mind telling me whether you think I ought to stay on here?
"That's Ford that's Gartlan that's Peirce Mahony," he exclaimed, as the different attorneys for the traversers, furiously busy with their huge bags, fidgetted about rapidly, or stood up in their seats, telegraphing others in different parts of the Court. "There's old Kemmis," as they caught a glimpse of the Crown agent; "he's the boy that doctored the jury list.
After the first course there was a long interval, during which Isabel and Louis composedly talked about the public meeting which he had been attending, and James fidgetted in the nervousness of hardly-restrained displeasure; but suddenly a frightful shrieking arose, and he indignantly cried, 'That girl!
Let there be clean and pure division first, perfected singleness. That is the only way to final, living unison: through sheer, finished singleness. Having no job for the autumn, Aaron fidgetted in London. He played at some concerts and some private shows.
"Well, I don't take to him, and I have seen him. I will drop him as much as I can. I promise you that." "Thank you, old boy." Julian fidgetted about rather uneasily, touching the ornaments on the mantelpiece, opening and shutting his silver cigarette-case with a click. It was obvious that he felt restless and dissatisfied. Then he said: "Well, are we going to "
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