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"I am sure," he soliloquised while thus employed, "I don't know exactly what to do, my wife ought to decide matters where the girl is concerned; a son is another affair that's the use of a wife. Humph!" "Sir," said a fat servant, opening the door, "a gentleman wishes to see you upon very particular business." "Business at this hour! Tell him to go to Mr. Blackwell." "Yes, sir."
I only came down here for a breath of fresh air." Fitzgerald did not answer, but turned sharply on his heel, and walked quickly up the pier, leaving Gorby staring after him. "He's getting frightened," soliloquised the detective to himself, as he strolled easily along, keeping the black figure in front well in view. "I'll have to keep a sharp eye on him or he'll be clearing out of Victoria."
The idea of sending her maid! Why, Simpson would not go if she asked her. She soliloquised thus while reading the letter; and then, suddenly turning round to the favourite attendant, who had been listening to her mistress's remarks with no inattentive ear, she asked: "Simpson, would you go and nurse this creature, as this " she looked at the signature "Mr Benson, whoever he is, proposes?"
Some unseemly quarrel had taken place in the cottage, which had agitated her. "There's no danger," mentally soliloquised Jan, "but it has thrown her back a good two days." He found John Massingbird restless John! restless as ever! pacing before the trees with hasty strides, and bursting into explosions of laughter.
Not liking to show him that I had heard the conflict, I continued my toilette rather noisily, looked at my watch, and soliloquised on the length of the night: 'Not three o'clock yet! I could have taken oath it had been six. Time stagnates here: we must surely have retired to rest at eight!
Krantz perceived that he was right in his opinion, and that Amine had only been cajoling the commandant, that she might escape. But the time passed heavily away with Philip and Krantz, for no vessel made its appearance. "When shall I see her again?" soliloquised Philip one morning, as he lolled over the parapet, in company with Krantz.
'Oh! ho! soliloquised Cargrim, when the doctor, evidently in a great hurry, went off, 'so his lordship wants to see Dr Graham. I wonder what that is for? Whatever Dr Pendle may have thought of the Southberry murder, he kept his opinion very much to himself.
We had been forty years in America then," soliloquised Francesca; "and isn't it odd that the long thanksgivings in our country must all have been for having successfully run away from the Gunpowder Treason, King Charles the Martyr, and the Restituted Royal Family; yet here we are, you and I, the best of friends, talking it all over."
"You may be uncommonly clever, my dear George," soliloquised the dentist, "but you'll never make a fortune by reading wills and hunting in parish-registers for heirs-at-law. A big lump of money is not very likely to go a-begging while any one who can fudge up the faintest pretence of a claim to it is above ground.
"There isn't a passenger on board who didn't know the risk they were running when they started, and I'm sure no one will blame you for not surrendering your ship like a dummy directly you're asked. They're a pretty sporting lot in the saloon, you know. All those newspaper men are real good fellows." The captain's face brightened. "Next to fighting her," he soliloquised, stroking his beard,
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