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It was a prearranged matter that there should be a bear-hunt in our forests." "That will do," answered De Chauxville reflectively; "in a few days, perhaps, if it suits the countess." Catrina made no reply. After a pause she spoke again, in her strange, jerky way. "What will you gain by it?" she asked. De Chauxville shrugged his shoulders. "Who knows?" he answered.
"Yes," said the skeleton, reflectively, as he looked Toby over from head to foot, as if he were mentally trying to calculate exactly how many inches high he was, "he is small; but he's got all the world before him to grow in, an' if he only eats enough There, that reminds me. Job isn't going to give him any supper, because he didn't work hard enough."
He stood silent and preoccupied for a moment, and then, putting his thoughts into words, without addressing them to anybody: "Ayupee!" he said reflectively; "Pohon-Upas, Antjar, Galanga root, Ginger and Black Pepper that's the Javanese method of procedure, I believe. Ayupee! yes, assuredly, Ayupee!" "What the dickens are you talking about, Cleek?
"Grandma Baines," he said, after a moment, "if you kin see down from where you be, I hope you hain't missin' that I done this f'r you. I was pertendin' all the time that you was Grandmother Penny...." Scattergood Baines sat on the piazza of his hardware store and twiddled his bare toes reflectively.
"I stood for hours in the Louvre watching a shabby young artist paint it and I had to have it. It seemed as if he'd put something more into it than was even in the original a sort of light in the eyes." "Strange " John Westley was staring reflectively at the picture. "Those eyes are like Jerry Travis!" "Yes yes!
"Because you're a friend of the family. You're so often here. Why, it's pretty near ten years...." Denry sighed: "I expect I come and see you all about once a fortnight fairly regular. That makes two hundred and fifty times in ten years. Yes...." "A couple of thou'," said Cotterill, reflectively. "Two hundred and fifty into two thousand eight. Eight pounds a visit.
'I should like to know he said presently, with a curious slowness and suavity, 'I should greatly like to know why you asked him here to-night? 'You know perfectly well that I should ask anybody a convict, a crossing sweeper if I happened to be half an hour in the same room with him! Flaxman laughed. 'Well, it may be convenient to-night, he said reflectively.
Presently he paused and looked reflectively at the bed of leaves. "It's been a good three years," he said reflectively. He considered a moment, rapping the pencil against his teeth, and repeated: "A good three years. I think when I get home I'll ask for a week or so to stretch myself."
"But women get consolation out of queer things sometimes," he added reflectively, "and so do men. "I remember when I was knocking about the coasts, an old aunt of mine always persisted in coming down to see the last of me, and bringing the whole family too no matter if I was only going away for a month. I was her favourite.
Vague and quaint imaginings had haunted Sue in the days when her intellect scintillated like a star, that the world resembled a stanza or melody composed in a dream; it was wonderfully excellent to the half-aroused intelligence, but hopelessly absurd at the full waking; that the first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage; that at the framing of the terrestrial conditions there seemed never to have been contemplated such a development of emotional perceptiveness among the creatures subject to those conditions as that reached by thinking and educated humanity.
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