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Then she laid her mits in her lap and fanned herself softly. "Well, Sallie, what is it? Did you ever hear Nathan play so well!" she asked, at last. "What did Oliver want, my dear?" replied Mrs. Horn, ignoring her question. "Is there anything worrying him, or is Sue at the bottom of it!" The little woman smiled quizzically. "No, Sallie not Sue not this time.
"Hello, Miz Austin!" he saluted her with a poor assumption of breeziness. "I was fixin' some harness, but I'm right glad to see you." Alaire regarded him quizzically. "What made you hide?" she asked. "Hide? Who, me?" "I saw you dodge in here like a gopher." Blaze confessed. "I reckon I've got the willies. Every woman I see looks like that dam' dressmaker." "Paloma was telling me about you.
The contractor, a robust, thick-necked, heavy-jawed Irishman, of just so much refinement as the sudden acquisition of a comfortable fortune would allow, looked him quizzically over, wondering whether he was "out" for a portion of the appropriation or whether he was really serious. "We can fix that between us," he said. "There's nothing to fix," replied the mayor.
The boy looked at him quizzically and nodded with customary aloofness. Graydon found himself hoping that he would not meet Bobby Rigby. He also wondered, as the car shot up, how his father had managed to escape from the meshes that were drawn about him on the eve of his departure. His chances had looked black and hopeless enough then; yet, he still maintained the same old offices in the building.
And as nothing so much pleased him as to relate his misfortunes at that time, he went straight into a rhapsody of joy, fretted his beard, looked quizzically out of his eyes, and said: "I have it, sir! I have the exact place.
I'm afraid I did keep you waiting though, after all," she went on, with a true feminine idea as to the flight of time, "I was only a few minutes." "And the rest," said Brian, quizzically looking at her pretty face, so charmingly flushed under her great white hat. Madge disdained to notice this interruption. "James," she cried to the coachman, "drive to the Melbourne Club.
He had written "From receipt of this message S.O.S. lines will be as follows " when he stopped. "Can't we shorten this preliminary verbiage?" he asked quizzically. "Castle made this opening phrase a sort of tradition when he was adjutant." "What about 'Henceforth S.O.S. lines will be'?" I replied, tilting my wooden stool backwards. "That will do!" said the colonel.
"I am a merchant like the others," I said; "only my ships run from Glasgow instead of Bristol." "A very pretty merchant," he said quizzically. "I have heard that hawks should not pick out hawks' eyes. What do you propose to gain, Mr. Garvald?" "Better business," I said.
Her spirit was so eager, she read so much and so quickly, that a friend sought to test her by lending her Sartor Resartus. She carried it home, and when next he met her he asked quizzically how she had got on with Carlyle. "It is grand!" she replied.
"Natural laws, physical geography, ample financial backing, and the need of the world for certain manufactured products. And," he concluded quizzically, "you'd better forget that I said anything about land." There was something suggestively final about this, and presently the group moved off, loitering across the flat, untenanted fields.
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