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He would often send out my brothers, instead of me, upon errands or chores, "to save me from interruption." What he admired most, was eloquence; and I think he did more than Cicero's De Oratore to inspire me with a similar feeling. I well remember his having been to Albany once, and having heard Hamilton, and the unbounded admiration with which he spoke of him.
She thought she knew Lucy very well, but yet had never understood her, it being more difficult for a woman of the world to understand absolute straightforwardness and simplicity than it is even for the simple to understand the worldly. She was silent for a moment and stared at Lucy, not knowing what to make of her. At last she resumed as if going on without interruption.
Rhoda said very little; her remarks were generally a purposed interruption of Everard's theme. When the cigar was smoked Out they rose and set forward again. This latter half of their walk proved the most interesting, for they were expectant of the view down upon Wastdale.
So tender a reference to hair whose beauty others beside the poet had loved must needs make a tender interruption the only kind of interruption the poet could have forgiven and 'Who, he continued 'Who was the artist of your mouth? What master out of old Japan Wrought it so dangerous to man ... And here it was but natural that laughter and kisses should once more interrupt
"Pull out the ignition button; push down the starter pedal with your right foot; throw out the clutch with your left; put her into low; let in your clutch slowly; give her a little " "Smarty!" He had counted upon some such interruption, and chuckled when it came. "I know all that." "Then why don't you do it?" he queried innocently.
For a few moments neither man spoke; then Sullivan continued in quick, brisk fashion, as if he were trying to banish some reverie that plagued him: "Well, have your way. We'll leave Mr. Laurie out of this altogether." "Thank you, Alf." Sullivan paid no heed to the interruption. "Now let's can all this twaddle and get down to work," he said sharply.
"You are a very brave young man," she replied with a roguish look at Bennett's discomfiture over the interruption of the tete-a-tete. There was a note of seriousness in it, too, that made me ask quickly, "Why?" The smile flitted from her face and in its place came a frank earnest expression which I later learned to like and respect very much.
With no show of alacrity, and with complete indifference of manner, he produced a matchbox and handed it to her, immediately reverting to his newspaper as though considerably bored by the interruption. Sara flushed, and, having lit her cigarette, tendered him his matchbox with an icy little word of thanks.
It looks as if he meant to take you at your word at last." "What on earth do you mean?" asked Anne, a little sharply. She was in the pantry counting eggs, and Octavia's interruption made her lose her count. "Now I can't remember whether it was six or seven dozen I said last. I shall have to count them all over again. I wish, Octavia, that you could think of something besides beaus all the time."
He was anxious to put in the name of Black Jack, since the sheriff was sticking so close to "Jack Hollis," which was a name that Terry had not yet heard for his dead father. But before he could get out the name, the sheriff, angry at the interruption, resumed the smooth current of his tale with a side flash at Vance. "Not all bad, you say? Generous? Sure he was generous.
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