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Leaning forward to him presently she began to ask him questions about Boston, the dear old great-aunt; to make comments, some reminiscent, some interrogative, upon the scenes they passed through; to lead him so tactfully into talk that he found himself answering and assenting almost as fluently as if Imogen in her corner had not kept those large, sad eyes fixed on the passing houses.
'Drake gave me one other piece of advice, he said hesitatingly, 'not about business. It concerned me and just one other person. He pitched the remark in an interrogative key. Mrs. Willoughby glanced quickly towards him with just the hint of a smile dimpling about the corners of her lips.
She stopped with a hesitating, interrogative air. No one talked less scandal, no one put the uglinesses of life away from her with a hastier hand than Lady Winterbourne. She was one of the most consistent of moral epicures. "Yes, extremely disagreeable," said Miss Raeburn, sitting bolt upright. "The man has no principles never had any, since he was a child in petticoats.
Her features were playfellows of one another, none of them pretending to rigid correctness, nor the nose to the ordinary dignity of governess among merry girls, despite which the nose was of a fair design, not acutely interrogative or inviting to gambols.
"Oh, Hubert," she said brokenly, "I am so sorry; but I promise I will tell you by Easter?" and her tone was interrogative. "Yes, yes," said Hubert. He looked at her in silence, and she saw strange lines quivering at the corners of his mouth, and his eyes large and brilliant in the firelight. Then the two drew together, and he took her in his arms strongly and passionately.
But when she had obtained an interview with Chief of Police Farnum the next morning and had silently laid one of the circulars on his desk before him, an announcement of her errand, Farnum merely glanced at it, smiled and then flashed a shrewd look into the girl's face. "Well!" said the Chief, in an interrogative tone.
In a short time a tall, heavily built young man, with a fine eye and pleasant smile, stepped between them, with an interrogative expression on his countenance, which asked, without the aid of any words, what might be their business; and Arthur replied that they desired to see Mr. Delancey as soon as possible.
"To Lowell?" at length dropped from the lips of Mr. Green, in a tone half interrogative, half in surprise. Mary did not respond, and the silence continued until they came to a point in the road where their two ways diverged. "Have you thought well of this, Mary?" said Mr. Green, as he paused here, and laid his hand upon a gate that opened into a part of his farm. "Why should I think about it, Mr.
"If we find out that the work in the cañon has affected the spring, I think it will be all right." "I reckon you won't be back before Monday?" said Lysander, with interrogative ruefulness. "Well, hardly; but that isn't very long."
She felt the others observing him too, and hovered restlessly between him and the line of interrogative eyes. The freckled child hung about him like a fly; offers of candy and picture- books failed to dislodge her: she twisted one leg around the other and watched him imperturbably.
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