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'Oh yes, said Lawford, 'I do. I have been making tremendous use of it. Her eyelid flickered at his candid glance. 'And does your business permit of much walking? 'Well, I've been malingering these last few days idling at home; but I am usually more or less my own man, Miss Sinnet. I walk a little. 'H'm, but not much in my direction, Mr Lawford? she quizzed him.
He had nothing to say when he learned that the Boss had not showed up since early morning after he had been quizzed by the police. But he left word that he would call up again. "At least I know that our gunman friend, the Chief, is going to call up to-night," I reported to Garrick on his return. "I think he'll be here, all right," commented Garrick.
On the other hand, there are cheerful episodes, and jovial dinners with Carl Blum and Schlesinger, at the Restaurant Lemelle. "Yesterday," he writes, "Schlesinger quizzed me about my slowness in eating, and went so far as to make the stupid bet with me, that he would demolish three dozen oysters while I ate one dozen, and he was quite right.
I have been laughing at the fun which Rupert and Lizzie have been making about Mrs. Hazleby, said Anne; 'I really could not help it, Mamma, and I do not think I began it. 'Began what? said Sir Edward. 'Why, Mamma was afraid I should seem to set Lizzie against her step-mother's relations, if I quizzed them or abused them, said Anne.
"I should be very glad to have it otherwise, I promise you, if I could: for it is not very pleasant to a man like me, to be quizzed by half the young men of fashion in town, for having married a woman old enough to be my mother." "Not quite old enough to be your mother," said his cousin, in a conciliatory tone; "these young men of fashion are not the best calculators. Mrs.
"He is a picture," exclaimed Mademoiselle de Richeval. "A man, Mademoiselle," returned de Bailleul warmly. "Has he a fortune then, Chevalier?" she laughed. "Perhaps he shall have mine," quizzed the old soldier. "He must come with us to Versailles, Chevalier," said the Princess. "So agreeable a person will be indispensable to me."
Euphuism, as the new fashion has been named from the prose romance of Euphues which Lyly published in 1579, is best known to modern readers by the pitiless caricature in which Shakspere quizzed its pedantry, its affectation, the meaningless monotony of its far-fetched phrases, the absurdity of its extravagant conceits.
"It is time, I think, mamma, for me to go home to dress for dinner." She looked at the little watch pinned to her dress. Renault and Isabelle laughed heartily. "What pebble that you tossed into the pool produced that ripple, do you think?" the doctor quizzed, twirling Molly about by her neck, much to her discomfort.
"And who is Daly?" said I, inquiringly, for I was rather interested in hearing what peculiar qualification as a diner-out the counsellor might lay claim to, many of Tom's friends being as remarkable for being the quizzed as the quizzers.
Faber!" greeted the Superintendent of Nurses from behind her austere office desk. "Good-morning, Miss Hartzen!" said the Senior Surgeon. "Have you had a pleasant trip?" quizzed the Superintendent of Nurses. "Exceptionally so, thank you!" said the Senior Surgeon. "And Mrs. Faber, is she well?" persisted the Superintendent of Nurses conscientiously. "Mrs. Faber?" gasped the Senior Surgeon. "Mrs.
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