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As I entered his hotel to-day I met a man coming out whose occupation is well known to me, and when I entered the room the prince's brow was clouded." I wished to interrupt him, "You cannot deny it," continued he; "I knew the man, I looked at him well.
I should think you would be pestered to death by all manner of idiots who come in and interrupt you." "I am," said the editor, shortly. "Then take my plan, and lock your door. Communicate with the outer office through a speaking-tube. I see you are down-hearted, so I have come to cheer you up. I've brought you a story, my boy." Shorely groaned. "My dear Gibberts," he said, "we have now "
It was a cruel thing for him to be obliged to interrupt all this; for she seemed perfectly cheerful and happy in it, as she always was when preparing to go on a pleasure-seeking expedition. But it could not be. All this luxury and indulgence must be cut off at a stroke.
Lady Augusta, on the contrary, seemed never to consider her accomplishments as occupations, but as the means of attracting admiration. To interrupt the comparison, which Mr. Mountague was beginning to enter into between her ladyship and Helen, he thought the best thing he could do was to walk to meet Mrs.
These deposits of a limy nature depend upon a very delicate adjustment of the conditions which favour the growth of certain creatures; very slight geographic changes, by inducing movements of sand or mud, are apt to interrupt their formation, bringing about a great and immediate alteration in the character of the deposits.
In fact, I was only too anxious not to interrupt him, and allowed him to reflect at his leisure. After some moments he spoke out. "I have been thinking about the matter," he resumed.
Aunt Edie can distribute literature, Aunt Louie can interrupt like anything, and Aunt Emmeline can shout and sing." "I think, Dorothy," said Rosalind with weak bitterness, "that you might have stuck by me." The two were walking down East Heath Road to the tram-lines where the motor buses started for Charing Cross. "It was you who dragged me into it, and the least you could do was to stick.
If you are telling a good story, and telling it well, she can't help listening, unless she is an abnormal child; and if she is abnormal you ought not to spoil the mood of the others to attend to her. I say "never" interrupt your story; perhaps it is only fair to amend that, after the fashion of dear little Marjorie Fleming, and say "never if you can help it."
We have elsewhere noticed the piercing quality of his dark eyes. The prelate, struck with his apparent youth, at length broke a pause, which the other seemed in no haste to interrupt, by demanding of the Arabian how old he was? "The years of ordinary men," said the Saracen, "are counted by their wrinkles; those of sages by their studies.
"I am afraid, Sir Patrick if I may be excused for remarking it you have had some bad news?" "The worst possible news, Duncan. I can't tell you about it now. Wait within hearing of the bell. In the mean time let nobody interrupt me. If the steward himself comes I can't see him."
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