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The woman seeing to whom the letters were addressed, and hearing the Tenor talk in an off-hand way about his manservant as if he had been accustomed to the luxury all his life, feared for a moment that his mind was affected; but then some of those wild surmises as to whom and what he might be, which were rife all over the ancient city when he first arrived, recurred to her, and there slipped from her unawares the remark: "Well, they always said you was somebody, and to look at you one might suppose you was a dook or a markis, sir, but I won't make so bold as to ask."
Sam Bolton knew that the Indian would satisfy himself by surmises, he would never apply the direct question to a man's affairs, and surmise might come dangerously near the truth. So he proceeded to impart a little information in his own way. "You are the hunter of this district?" Sam asked. "Yes." "How far do you trap?" The Indian mentioned creeks and rivers as his boundaries.
I rather pitied him, for his other neighbour, Lady Betty, had turned suddenly very sulky, and I had my surmises that Miss Darrell had said something to affront her; for she made snapping little answers when any one spoke to her, and, though they laughed at her, and nobody seemed to mind, most likely they thought it prudent to give her time to recover herself.
Hugely delighted, these ungodly youth winked in merry surmises as to the relationship between the budding Baronet and the hidden Venus. Even bets as to discreetly "distant relationship," or a forthcoming crop of late orange blossoms were the order of the day.
Lucas, the keeper, came in about an hour after dusk, and immediately took possession of it. Such were the events of the first day after Joey's departure. Notwithstanding that the snow fell fast, the Cat and Fiddle was, as it may be supposed, unusually crowded on that night. Various were the surmises as to the disappearance of the pedlar and of little Joey.
But these were at best surmises that arranged themselves in my mind while noting everything in sight and awaiting a further sign of life. Soon a hinge squeaked. A man stepped from one of the smaller huts, looked at the sky, yawned and stretched. A second appeared from another hut, walked away and came back with an armful of wood that he took into the dining hall.
All the small talk and epigrams of the various petty impinging circles under the social dome passed into and out of her small ears gossip, epigrams, aphorisms, rumours, apropos surmises, asides, and off-stage observations, subtle with double entendre, harmless and otherwise.
She did not in fact have long to wait, for after they were all seated at dinner Mr. Sinclair looked quizzically into his daughter's face. "I know you are puzzling your brain why I came home so early," he began. "Now, are you not?" "I certainly am," Lois laughingly replied. "Margaret and I have been having all kinds of surmises." "I've done a great stroke of business to-day," Mr.
Jahn surmises, doubtless correctly, that the reason why Mozart habitually delayed putting down his pieces on paper, was because this process, being a mere matter of copying, did not interest him so much as the composing and creating, which were all done before he took up the pen.
And the uppishness I am afraid is a national fault, sir; you know our state motto is 'Excelsior." "We are at liberty to suppose," said Thorn, "that Miss Ringgan has followed the example of her friends the farmers' daughters? or led them in it? "It is dangerous to make surmises," said Fleda colouring. "It is a pleasant way of running into danger," said Mr.
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