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Basil did treat that devotional formula, which Mrs. Coe never omitted to pronounce, in spite of her husband's contemptuous shrugs, with considerable indifference. She sat opposite to Charley, and more than once, when he looked up suddenly, he caught her gaze fixed earnestly upon him.
"Not exactly a lure," says he. "She didn't think I'd be chump enough to come. But that's all off now." "I ain't curious," says I, "but the fam'ly has sort of delegated me to keep track of your moves. What's next, if you know?" Robin shrugs his shoulders sort of listless. "I don't know," says he. Then he turns to Uncle Noah.
Oliver looked surprised at her speaking up like that, her that hardly ever said a word except 'Yes, Dick dear, and 'No, Dick dear, and then he shrugs his shoulders and he says, 'You are right, my dear, he's punished enough. And John turned to go like a dog that has been whipped; but at the door he faced round, and he said to Mrs.
Betty demanded the names, and Marcella gave them obediently. Betty perceived at once that the party was the party of a political chief obliged to do his duty. She allowed herself a good many shrugs of her small shoulders. "Oh, Mrs. Lexham, very charming, of course, but what's the good of being friends with a person who has five hundred people in London that call her Kelly? Lady Wendover?
"She will come with me," says the professor, with cold decision. "A command!" says Sir Hastings, laughing lightly. "See what it is, Miss Wynter, to have a hard-hearted guardian." He shrugs his shoulders. Perpetua makes him a little bow, and follows the professor out of the conservatory.
His public speeches were little mosaics in the finesse of their art; and the intricacies of inflection, insinuation, jovial innuendo which Mark Twain threw into his gestures, his implicative pauses, his suggestive shrugs and deprecative nods all these are hopelessly volatilized and disappear entirely from the printed copy of his speeches.
The Cap. had got to the part where he describes this mysterious island with the mound in the middle, when Mr. Robert shrugs his shoulders impatient. "My good fellow," says he, "whatever gave you the notion I would be interested in such rubbish? Sorry, but your time is up. Torchy, will you show Mr. er what's-his-name to the elevator?" Which I did as comfortin' as I knew how.
'Yes, about that; but I'll buy you one, one day or other, Temple. The dear little fellow coloured hot; he was too much in earnest to laugh at the absurdity of his being supposed to want a pug for himself, and walked round me, throwing himself into attitudes with shrugs and loud breathings. 'I don't . . . don't think that I . . . I care for nothing but Newfoundlands and mastiffs, said he.
"Shall we engage again?" "At your pleasure." The Frenchman's eye no longer twinkled; his gallantry was on its mettle. He was grave and severe, fixing his gaze on the Colonel's attack, and remaining blind to the nods and shrugs and smiles of amusement of his patrons in the background. Again he touched the Colonel, and, alas! again; with an ease which, good-natured as he was, he could not mask.
But Minnie Hescott, who has gone down the steps into the garden, has seen something too that fair, fierce face leaning over the balcony! The eyes are following Tita and her brother, Tom Hescott. "You have said," says Rylton, when the steps have ceased, "that you would warn me about my wife. Of what?" She shrugs her shoulders.
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