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"Hello, you two on the outs?" inquired Kenneth, casually. "Oh, no!" said Philip, with emphasis; "far from it!" So, as Patty found it impossible to snub such cheerfulness, she concluded to forgive and forget. "There's something doing after supper," remarked Roger. "Miss Homer dropped a hint, and even now they're fixing something in the ballroom."
"I asked what was the matter and she said to wait a minute. It seemed like she stopped to listen for something. Then all of a sudden she cried out that some one was riding up." "It it might not have been any of the gang," murmured Bud, voicing a hope he did not feel. "Who else would be likely to come at this time of night?" demanded Stratton. "Lynch is on the outs with everybody around Perilla.
He had still to be made acquainted with all the ins and outs of this woman's remarkable nature. "We are waiting," suggested Dr. Talbot. She turned to face this new speaker, and Frederick was relieved from the sight of her tantalising smile. "I will tell my story simply," said she, "with the simple suggestion that you believe me; otherwise you will make a mistake.
He never meddled with any other town, for he was afraid to venture into houses whose ins and outs he did not know and the habits of whose households he was not acquainted with.
For my own part I could talk of the disastrous drought with Waster Lunny as I walked over his parched fields, but I had not such cause as he to brood upon it by day and night; and the ins and outs of the earl's marriage were for discussing at a tea-table, where there were women to help one to conclusions, rather than for the reflections of a solitary dominie, who had seen neither bride nor bridegroom.
"Concerns Fanny Elder to know! What do you mean, sir?" "Precisely what I say. There has been a great fraud committed; and I know all the ins and the outs of it!" "By whom?" asked Claire. "Ah!" replied the visitor, "that we will come to after a while." "Upon whom, then?" "Upon the estate of Ruben Elder, the father of your adopted daughter."
"D'you want my suggestion?" demanded Blake, warm with the wine-like knowledge which, he knew, made him master of the situation. "Of course," was the Commissioner's curt response. "Well, you 've got to have a man who knows Binhart, who knows him and his tricks and his hang outs!" "Well, who does?" "I do," declared Blake. The Commissioner indulged in his wintry smile.
From the first I see what he was after coming round and round, and hinting things! But to-night he outs with it plump! I'm to let him hear all what you're to do beforehand, he says; and he gave me this for an arnest" holding up half a guinea; "and I took it, so I did! Strike me sky-blue scarlet!" says he, adducing the words of the mock oath; and he looked askance at me as he did so.
And, with all inconsistencies and freedoms, there is a power shown in these sequences of cuts: a power of joining on one action or one humour to another; a power of following out the moods, even of the dismal subterhuman fiends engendered by the artist's fancy; a power of sustained continuous realisation, step by step, in nature's order, that can tell a story, in all its ins and outs, its pauses and surprises, fully and figuratively, like the art of words.
I've had a firm mind and a firm will to have your life, since you was down here at your sister's burying. I han't seen a way to get you safe, and I've looked arter you to know your ins and outs. For, says Old Orlick to himself, 'Somehow or another I'll have him! What! When I looks for you, I finds your uncle Provis, eh?"
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