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Honora kissed hers dutifully, and picked up the newspapers, drove him to the beach, and took him out to dinner, where he talked oracularly of finance. On Sunday night he departed, without visible regrets, for New York. One Monday morning a storm was raging over Newport.
He was rapt away to some plane of mystic exaltation, to some hinterland of the soul that merged upon madness. When at length the boat crunched upon the sandy shore he got up unsteadily from the stern and pointed to the pharos that flamed in the heavens. "The fire upon the altar is lit," he addressed me, oracularly, while the fanatic light of a devotee burned in his eyes.
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.
"...'We are looking for a man of approved courage, she continued earnestly; 'we are more than satisfied that YOU are the man.... Again I muttered my thanks.... 'How long have you been a member? she then asked carelessly.... THIS was not so easily answered.... I thought quickly.... 'Long enough to KNOW my lesson! I answered oracularly.... 'You still remember your instructions?... 'What instructions? She answered my question by asking, 'Were they not BURNED?... 'Who is this encyclopædic lady? I asked myself.
"You'll cut the ball, not your throat," said the Duffer. Cutting was Caesar's strong point. The Caterpillar nodded, and spoke oracularly "My governor says he never shoots at a snipe without muttering to himself, 'Snipe on toast. It steadies his nerves. When you see the ball leave the bowler's band, you say to yourself, 'Eton on toast." "Your own, Caterpillar?"
Aubins. "That Chevalier of Champsavoys and the other Duc de Bercy," interposed the centenier. Maitre Damian tapped his stick upon the ground, and said oracularly: "It is not for me to say, but which is the rightful Duke and which is not, there is the political question!" "Pardi, that's it," answered the centenier.
"Ah!" he grunted, oracularly. "You knows best about that, sir!" "Well, don't you dare, Shuffler," I savagely retorted, "to couple that lady's name with Mr Mawley's!" I was literally boiling over with fury at the very suspicion: it was the realisation of my worst fears! "You've no cause to get angry, Mr Lorton," said he.
T. X.," he went on somewhat oracularly, "is a man for whom I have a great deal of respect. You will probably meet him again, for he will find an opportunity of asking you a few questions about myself. I need hardly tell you " He lifted his shoulders with a deprecating smile. "I shall certainly not discuss your business with any person," said the girl coldly.
"And where might that be?" inquired the seaman. The man turned and pointed across a piece of untidy waste ground to a coastguard's path which wound its way along the top of the cliffs. "Follow that path as straight as you can go," said he. "How far?" said Dick. "Well, some people make a long journey of it, and some a short one," said the other oracularly. "Shall we say six miles?"
"But they can use their native observation, my dear," retorted Barry calmly. "And I bet you five to one in gloves that I tell you the name of the man inside a week." "In a week it won't matter," pronounced Kitty oracularly. "Give me a week and you can have all the time that's left." "Well, we'd better occupy what's left of this afternoon in getting back home, old thing," returned her husband.
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