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"You must needs wait a while; I have not my purse with me," Catiline began. But Paullus interrupted him— "I have, I have, my Sergius; permit me to accommodate you." And suiting the action to the word, he gave the conspirator several large gold coins, adding, "you can repay me when it suits you." "That will be never," said Clodius with a sneer; "you don’t know Lucius Catiline, I see, young man."
When with their pack and their outlooking smiles the Applebys prepared to start, next day, and turned to say good-by to Crook, he started, cried, "I will!" and added, "I'm coming with you, for a while!" For two days Crook McKusick tramped with them, suiting his lean activity, his sardonic impatience, to their leisurely slowness.
In Heaven's name what takes you into such breakneck places?" "The same matter that brings you here, sir," replied Robin, skipping and crawling alternately, suiting his motions to the inequality of the place: "the very same matter that brings you here a woman." "How know you that, master prate-a-pace? At all events, you have no woman there."
That if it 'deranged' me to quit Paris, he would return to it for the purpose required; but that if I would give him the additional satisfaction of suiting his convenience, he should prefer to await my arrival at Bayonne, where he was detained by the indisposition of the Duchesse." "You have still that letter?" asked Louvier, quickly.
"You grant then that I can, by an act of free choice, move this cup," suiting the action to the word, "this way or that way?" "Yes, I grant it." "Well, let us see how far the result is produced by fixed laws. The cup moves because certain mechanical forces are impressed on it by my hand.
And suiting his actions to his instinct he whirled the envelope across the spring stream to the table by Rose Mary's side with the aim of one of the little god's own arrows and retreated before her greeting and invitation to enter should tempt him.
Suiting his selections to the occasion, he never failed to excite intense interest in the breasts of all present, and when circumstances finally separated him from us, all felt that a debt of gratitude was due him that could never be paid. The pleasure he gave, and the confident feeling that was now arising from expected reinforcements, was darkened, however, by one sad incident.
Scarcely were they there, when the sharp eyes of the enemy fell on them, and they were saluted with a hot fire of musketry. "Skip about dodge them fly here fly there; take care they don't hit you," sang out Paddy, suiting the action to the word. "The more we jump, the less chance we shall have of being hit."
Verne, in a half angry and petulant mood; then rising from her seat, took up a piece of crewel embroidery, saying, "I suppose if I have to turn out and earn my living I had better begin at once," and suiting the action to the word, was soon busily engaged in making some pretty stitches upon the handsome panel of rich garnet-colored velvet.
Bennet protested against any description of finery. She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit and some exaggeration, the shocking rudeness of Mr. Darcy. "But I can assure you," she added, "that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.
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