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'Well, he replied, half defiantly, 'is not this your fight too? 'You make me think so, though I am bound to say I hardly recognise myself to day. But here goes, and before I knew it I was describing our plans to Graeme, growing more and more enthusiastic as he sat in his sleigh, listening with a quizzical smile I didn't quite like. 'He's got you too, he said; 'I feared so.
The quizzical Frenchman detected in some of his clients a moneyed ability which raised them above their fellows. "I have salt," admitted the colonel, speaking English to men who did not understand French, "but I have not enough to make brine of de Okaw river. I bet you ten dollaire you have not money in your pockets to pay for it." More than half the pockets owned this fact.
Unorthodox to a degree; the Sorbonne greedy for him long since; such his audacities in print, his heavy hits, boisterous, quizzical, logical. And now he had set to attacking the Medical Faculty, to quizzing Medicine in his wild way; Doctor Astruc, Doctor This and That, of the first celebrity, taking it very ill.
When I had finished my prattling, 'Niram repeated, with an accent of finality, "She wanted I should give it to you." The older man stirred in his chair. Without looking at him I knew that his gaze on the young rustic was quizzical and that he was recording on the tablets of his merciless memory the ungraceful abruptness of the other's action and manner.
Herresford will alter his will to-morrow, and leave all his wealth to you." Dora turned and faced him in amazement, fearing that his reason was unhinged. But the strange, quizzical, amused smile with which he surveyed her expressed so much sanity that she could not fail to respect his utterances. "Say that Mr.
Next morning after breakfast, Mr. Congreve stood pulling his gloves on and eyeing the six girls from under his fierce, bushy brows, and there was something almost like amusement in the quizzical look as it swept from one face to the other. Whatever he thought, he put it into no words, but caught up his cane, then stooped down over Jean, lying on the lounge, and whispered something in her ear.
And in the matter of that old hen " He paused and favored her with a quizzical smile. "Yes?" "I brought a substitute hen with me all ready for the pot, and if I can't come to dinner to-morrow, I'm going to face a very lonely Sunday." "You ridiculous boy! Of course you may come, although it must be the final visit.
"There's there's only your poor mother's half-brother down on the Cape." "What half-brother?" demanded Louise with a quick smile that matched the professor's quizzical one. "Why Well, your mother, Lou, had an older half-brother, a Mr. Silt. He keeps a store at Cardhaven. You know, I met your mother down that way when I was hunting seaweed for the Smithsonian Institution.
"We want a minimum of five hundred thousand; as much more for accidents. Where does this cousin of yours live? In Abingdon?" "In Vesper seven miles from Abingdon. He's a lawyer." "Is he all right?" "Why, yes I guess so. When I was a boy I thought he was a wonderful chap rather made a hero of him." "When you was a boy?" echoed Johnson; a quizzical twinkle assisted the query.
Kenneth was at present almost a stranger to me. He had a mischievous, quizzical intonation in his voice when he spoke to me, and Violet, his youngest sister, a bright, merry schoolgirl of fourteen, had confided in me the previous night that 'Kenneth was never so happy as when he was teasing people, and that he took stock of every one, and mimicked them very often to their faces.
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