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If ever I saw a cool, smooth, handsome devil it was Lane.... Well, he said what he said. I thought Mrs. Smith would faint. It is my idea Lane had a deep motive back of his remark about Fanchon's dress and her dancing. The fact is Lane was sick at what he saw sick and angry. And he wanted Fanchon's mother and me to know what he thought." "It was an insult," declared Mrs. Maynard, vehemently.
I know not how you call the thing, and like enough I have totally missed its motive; but there is something about it that holds me, fascinates me, and I would hear it again that I may understand." Haigh grinned and complied, and then he played us more of his own stuff, the most outré that human ears had ever listened to, and we marvelled still further.
As a display motive it contains the feeling of anger, and the impulses of combat, and its relation to the reproductive motive is obvious.
At the mention of von Brüning she showed no emotion of any sort; on the contrary, she went out of her way, from an innocent motive that anyone could have guessed, to show that she could talk about him with dispassionate detachment. 'He came to see us when you were here last, didn't he? she said to Davies. 'He often comes. He goes with father to Memmert sometimes. You know about Memmert?
'Knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He was come from God, and went to God. There, then, are two explanations of motive, the one covering a wider area than the other, but both converging on the incident before us. The first of these is just this the consciousness of impending separation moved Christ to a more than ordinarily tender manifestation of His love.
I had taken particular notice of him at the time; and I felt sure that I was not mistaken in identifying the fellow on this occasion. Neither he nor his companion attempted to speak to me, and both kept themselves at a respectful distance, but the motive of their presence in the neighbourhood of the church was plainly apparent.
It is through the perplexities of this momentous period that we have now to follow him, and we shall do so to most advantage by taking as our clue his own avowed primary motive of action, the finding and destroying of the French fleet.
Notwithstanding Agathe's silence on the subject, Madame Descoings had guessed the motive of this desire to earn money by women's-work.
A medical man's is not the place for a barking dog; he might attack the night applicants." "Is it Jan's dog?" inquired Lucy. "Yes," said Lionel. "I thought you knew it. Why, don't you remember, Lucy, the day I " Whatever reminiscence Lionel may have been about to recall, he cut it short midway, and subsided into silence. What was his motive? Did Lucy know?
There had been discussions and disputes as to speed, and John's wagon, a long, well-oiled affair with a coat of red, discarded house paint on its framework, had come to grief in a collision with Brown's, one sunny afternoon. Even Silvey, the optimist, who had furnished the motive power, had looked at the wreckage in well-founded despair. "Where's yours?" Red turned abruptly to the Harrison boys.
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