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Loraine having assisted Francois in preparing the supper, prompted by good feeling, and perhaps slightly by curiosity, took a seat by the side of the stranger, that he might attend to his wants.
"You did," murmured Banks in an undertone of grieved dismay. "I did, father," Arthur proceeded; "and if it hadn't been for young Mr. Frank, we'd have come to some sort of understanding. Mr. Jervaise didn't actually say 'No, as it was." "And you went up again this evening?" Banks prompted him. "Yes; I only saw Mr.
Captain Hall was present at the Paris wedding, and it was the stately beauty of Lucille more than all else that prompted him to invite the Harrises to take the Mediterranean cruise. Some of the mothers of fine daughters in Harrisville had exhausted their wits in trying to entrap Harry Hall, who was impartially attentive to all, but was never known to pay marked attention to any young lady.
Why is it?" he thought, continuing to follow out the succession of ideas which the scene prompted, "why is it that some scenes awaken thoughts, which belong as it were to dreams of early and shadowy recollection, such as my old Brahmin Moonshie would have ascribed to a state of previous existence?
There was a perceptible start, and another look of fear-almost terror. "For heaven's sake, doctor," she said, rousing herself, and speaking half imperatively, "do something! Don't stand speculating about the cause; but do something if you have any skill." Thus prompted, I set myself to work, in good earnest, with my patient.
He ceased to consider that by fate he was a Conservative, bound by traditional conventionalities: in that great moment he knew himself sufficiently a man to exercise whatever individuality instinct prompted. He forgot the didactic methods by which he had proposed to show knowledge of his subject both as a past and a future factor in European politics.
But of course what he meant was that if he had been at home the thief would not have broken in." "There were evidences of his having broken in?" "There was a window open." "And were any of the stolen things recovered." "Not that I ever heard of. And yet, I think perhaps some of them were. I remember " Desire paused and a painful flush crept into her cheek. "Yes?" prompted Spence gently.
A previous experience of the effects of hasheesh which I took once, and in a very mild form, while in Egypt was so peculiar in its character, that my curiosity, instead of being satisfied, only prompted me the more to throw myself, for once, wholly under its influence.
When the principle involved happens to be one of the very few which the course of their religious or moral education has strongly impressed upon themselves, they are potent auxiliaries to virtue: and their husbands and sons are often prompted by them to acts of abnegation which they never would have been capable of without that stimulus.
The style in which he took hold of the pale face told the latter that he possessed considerable skill, and it would be a mistake to estimate him too lightly. Jack reached over his left hand to grasp the right of his antagonist, but the latter declined to take it, and the free hands, therefore, were held, as may be said, in reserve to be used as inclination prompted.
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