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"Oh, I am not so sure of that!" cried the girl in a distressed voice. "Mack might get nervous." "Nervous?" laughed the M.P.P. "That giant?" "Yes, indeed, I have seen him that nervous " said Isa, and stopped abruptly. "Ah! That is quite possible," replied the M.P.P. with a quizzical smile. "And there is young Cameron yonder. He is not going to throw, is he?" enquired Mr. Munro.
And the smiling light was protean-mooded, merry, sympathetic, joyous, quizzical, the complement of whatsoever kindled it. And sometimes the light spread over all her face, till the smile prefigured by it was realized. But it was always in frank and open comradeship.
"Gentlemen," he said slowly, "thank you for what you have said but I can't give you an answer at once." "There's no hurry," replied Ardswell. "It's not a case for a snap decision." Through Clark's mind ran a quizzical idea that these two understood each other admirably, and he wondered how things would have turned out had he himself been one of a pair that did such team work.
Why, ye look like another man," said Easter's mother, who had been looking Clayton over with a quizzical smile. "Is that the way folks dress out in the settlemints? 'N' look at that gal. Ef she hev done anythin' sence ye hev been gone but" The rest of the sentence was smothered in the palm of Easter's hand, and she too began scrutinizing Clayton closely.
Going downstairs to the dining-room, he found several thin and pinched looking young women, with their hats on and Sunday-school lessons beside their plates. Mrs. Peachey, still smiling her quizzical smile, sat at the head of the table, pouring coffee out of an old silver coffee-pot, which was battered in on one side as if it had seen active service in the war.
I sang, and thought I sang very well; but he just looked up into my face with a very quizzical expression, and said, "How long have you been singing, Mademoiselle?" Mama answered for me before I could speak. "She has sung, Monsieur, since she was a very small child." He was not at all impressed by this, but said, "I thought so." Then he continued.
Baranhov lifted his shoulders to his ears in quizzical resignation. "I suppose it matters little where the last few years left me are spent, and I can hang the medals on the walls to console me when I have rheumatism, and shout my titles from the top of the fort when the Kolosh are yelling at the barricades." "You must make yourself more comfortable," said Rezanov emphatically.
One evening that same week when Nourse had come to dinner, she led the talk by slow degrees to that other plan of Joe's the one with terrace gardens. Soon she had Nourse talking about it, and seeing her husband grow morose she grew cheerily interested. "Oh, I'm very dull, I suppose," she said at the end with a quizzical smile, "but I'm afraid I can't get it clear. Couldn't you draw it?"
"Why, then," returned Senator Gruff, with a quizzical eye, "I foresaw this honorable occasion and prepared for it. I shall give what we have done to the Daily Tory, whose intelligent representative is with us as a guest."
Sitting opposite each other Jean-Christophe and Minna hardly dared look at each other for fear of bursting into tears. Their hands sought each other, and clasped until they hurt. Frau von Kerich watched them with quizzical good-humor, and seemed not to see anything. The time arrived.
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