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"I am very grateful to you, sir, for putting me right with Commissioner," began Mansus, but T. X. stopped him. "It is the duty of every head of departments," he said oracularly, "to shield the incompetence of his subordinates. It is only by the adoption of some such method that the decencies of the public life can be observed. Now get down to this."
Was you sayin' I'm in on this here pie?" "Certainly you are. You wait. It'll be done now pretty soon," said Franklin. "If ye can poke a straw into thim, they're done," said Battersleigh oracularly. "Curly, hand me the broom."
His favorite way of meeting inquiries was to say oracularly: "If Paris knew what I know, the city would be illuminated." Confidence increased after the empress-regent had proclaimed a levée en masse.
"The murderer may have had two candles," he said oracularly. "Anyway, what does it matter? They're both candle-grease." Colwyn swept his fragments back into his pocket with a quick impatient gesture. "Both candle-grease, as you say," he returned sharply. "We do not seem to be making much progress in our investigations, so let us discontinue them. Good-night." Colwyn went to bed, but not to sleep.
"Who?" interrupted Miss Cringle, in a tone of polite inquiry. "Captain Cringle," said the mate, correcting himself, "smokes a great deal, and I've heard him say that you liked the smell of it." "There's pipes and pipes," said Miss Cringle oracularly.
It was that which made her give a little jerky bow to the miller and the postmaster when she passed the mill. "Come, dusty-belly," said Baby, "what's all this pom-pom of the Lavilettes?" The miller pursed out his lips, contracted his brows, and arranged his loose waistcoat carefully on his fat stomach. "Money," said he, oracularly, as though he had solved the great question of the universe.
"What are ye propheseein' at, Mr Cupples?" said Alec, who did not more than half understand him. "Verra weel. I'm no drunk yet," rejoined Mr Cupples, oracularly. "But that chield Beauchamp's no rainbow that lat me tell ye. He'll do you a mischeef yet, gin ye dinna luik a' the shairper. I ken the breed o' him. He was luikin' at ye throu the window like a hungry deevil. Min' I'm tellin' ye.
If the judges differ in their complexions, much more will a jury. A timid jury will give way to an awful judge delivering oracularly the law, and charging them on their oaths, and putting it home to their consciences to beware of judging, where the law had given them no competence. We know that they will do so, they have done so in an hundred instances.
They ran and clutched at the coins with a savage greed. "Gold, gold the real stuff! It's the doubloons all right where's the rest of 'em?" These cries broke from Slinker and Horny confusedly as the gold slid jingling between their eager fingers. "The rest of 'em is where they is," pronounced Tony oracularly. "Somewheres in the sand of the cave, of course. We'll dig 'em up to-morrow morning.
He bowed, expressed his pleasure a little oracularly, and was about to say something else, but she turned deftly to De la Riviere, with a sweetness which made up for her previous irony to him, and said: "You, my kind Seigneur, will come to breakfast with me one day? My husband will be here soon. When you see our flag flying, you will find the table always laid for four."
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