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In a moment after Tib, the landlady, appeared with her stirrup- cup, which was taken off. She then, as Meg had predicted, inquired whether he went the hill or the moss road. He answered, the latter; and, having bid Brown good-bye, and again told him, 'he depended on seeing him at Charlie's Hope, the morn at latest, he rode off at a round pace. Gallows and knock are too powerful on the highway
Tommie fetched their sundaes in that miraculous way waiters have of carrying cup and saucers heaped up, just as jugglers catch them. "Been practicin'?" inquired Grace glibly. "What for?" asked Tommie, whisking his towel over the table. "Why, for the contest," answered Grace, as if the whole world should know that. "Oh, yes a little," admitted Tommie, gliding off to a new customer.
"How can I?" said Julia, laughing in her turn. "You are not a girl." "Can girls then only feel friendship?" inquired Charles, taking the seat which Miss Emmerson had relinquished. "I sometimes think so," said Julia, with her own good-humoured smile. "You are too gross too envious in short, you never see such friendships between men as exist between women."
"'Scuse me, Massa Jack," answered the colored man, "but did I done heah you' to promulgate some conversationess regarding de transmigatorability ob diamonds?" "Do you mean, were we talking about diamonds?" inquired Mark. "Dat's what I done said, Massa Mark." "No, you didn't say it, but you meant it, I guess," went on Jack. "Yes, we were talking about diamonds, Washington.
With James curiosity overcame his disinclination to speak to one so far beneath him. "Where are you going. Carter?" he inquired. "To Randolph," was the answer. "Going to walk all the way?" "I expect to," said Herbert, not relishing the cross-examination. "Why don't you ride?" James did not ask for information.
"I did not know that you were jealous of intellect," Montriveau said, turning to de Marsay; "good fortune is the death of a poet." "Is that why your lordship is thinking of marriage?" inquired the dandy, addressing Canalis, and watching Mme. d'Espard to see if the words went home. Canalis shrugged his shoulders, and Mme. d'Espard, Mme. de Chaulieu's niece, began to laugh.
I could never have done anything with her in the world if I'd let her think she knew as much as I did. So I just put things together in a way of my own, and built a nest that would have made you weep! The bottom fell out of it the first night. It nearly killed me." "Did you fall out, too?" inquired Fairyfoot. "Oh, no," answered the little man.
"What?" inquired Donnelly, with great surprise. "Oh, that book of yours," said the Colonel, "in which you tried to prove that Shakespeare never wrote 'Hamlet' and 'Macbeth' and 'Lear' and all those other plays." "My dear sir," replied Donnelly with great earnestness, "I can prove beyond all peradventure that Shakespeare never wrote those plays."
Sometimes he inquired after Prince Dolor, and they told him his Royal Highness was going on as well as could be expected, which really was the case.
Mr. Galloway went into his private room. He glanced casually at the addresses on the letters, and then called Roland Yorke. "Where is the letter John brought round?" he inquired, somewhat testily. Roland pointed it out. "That was it, sir." "That!" Mr. Galloway bent on it a keener glance, which probably satisfied him that it bore his private address.
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