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"This Catholicism is a curious thing," said the man of the cloven chin in uninterrupted reflectiveness, leaning his elegant elbows over the edge of the vessel; "it soaks and weakens men without their knowing it, just as I fear it has soaked and weakened you." Turnbull stood in an attitude which might well have meant pitching the other man out of the flying ship.
He sat on the low rail, swinging one leg monotonously, while the square little sailor stood at his side with that patient maritime reflectiveness which is being slowly killed by the quicker ways of steam. "My calling brings me into contact with a rum lot of people," said the young fellow at last, "and I suppose all of us make enemies without knowing it."
"Oh, yes, of course, I knew nice girls in England, one or two," he answered. "I'm not quite sure, however, that girls of that kind would find things even moderately comfortable here." A certain reflectiveness in his tone, which seemed to indicate that he had already given the matter some consideration, jarred upon Sally.
It's like those people you care to be with for a little while, but if you must go being with them for ever you come to hate them almost. They sat silent for a moment, then with slow reflectiveness, like one who thinks aloud, he said 'I have to go to Scotland next week. 'Do you! What part? 'I go to Inverness-shire. 'Why, that's where we are! Near
Ford," said Uncle Ben, with abstract reflectiveness, "I sez to the fellers, 'lie low, boys, and you'll see style. And when you put on them first steps, I sez, 'that's French the latest high-toned French style outer the best masters, and and outer the best books. For why? sez I. 'It's the same long, sliding stroke you see in his copies.
'In my humble way, Buckland. 'M'Naughten, among other things. Humble enough, that, I admit. 'I am not a great admirer of M'Naughten, returned his sister, with a look of amusement. 'No? I congratulate you. I wonder what Peak thinks of the book? 'I really don't know. 'Then let me ask another question. What do you think of Peak? Sidwell regarded him with quiet reflectiveness.
He had taken to exercise his brains prematurely, not only in learning, but also in reflection; and a reflectiveness that is indulged before we have a rigid mastery of the emotions, or have slain them, is apt to make a young man more than commonly a child of nerves: nearly as much so as the dissipated, with the difference that they are hilarious while wasting their treasury, which he is not; and he may recover under favouring conditions, which is a point of vantage denied to them.
In the interval of awkward silence, Briscoe remained motionless in his easy chair, a rueful reflectiveness on his genial face incongruous with its habitual expression. When a sudden disconcerted intentness developed upon it, Bayne, every instinct on the alert, took instant heed of the change.
Then he read it again with the same impenetrable reflectiveness, and finally handed it to the frantic Brown, whose hand was beating the devil's tattoo on the back of the chair. "I think you will find that all right, Major," he said briefly. The Major looked at it; whether he found it all right or not will appear later, but he found it like this: Major Brown to P. G. Northover. L s. d.
George laughed the short, grating laugh his mother so often evoked. "Beg pardon, mother; I can only answer for myself. To the best of my belief I never saw her, either at Ferth or anywhere else." "Why, Aspasia Corfield and I," said Lady Tressady with languid reflectiveness "Aspasia Corfield and I copied each other's dresses, and bought our hats at the same place, when we were eighteen.
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