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He had made tentative approaches both to Frome and to Edward B. Merrill. Both of these gentlemen had been friendly enough, but James had made up his mind they undervalued his worth. The way to convince them of this was to take the field against them. He smiled now as he swung along the avenue.
It had continued with Weldon's being borne across the camp on the back of a little gray broncho who was making tentative motions towards a complete handspring. By the time the pony was convinced of the proper function of her own hind legs, Weldon found himself being driven from the door of the cooking tent by Paddy and a volley of potatoes.
"Bianca is a pattern to me, I am aware," said Laura. "She is a good wife." "I am a poor widow." "She is a good daughter." "I am a wicked rebel." "And you are scheming at something now," said the little nobleman, sagacious so far; but he was too eager to read the verification of the tentative remark in her face, and she perceived that it was a guess founded on her show of spirit.
This, of course, is a tentative and an unsatisfactory method of controlling the ripening, and yet it is one of some practical value to cheese makers. It is the only method that has yet been suggested of controlling the ripening. Our bacteriologists, of course, are quite confident that in the future more practical results will be obtained along this line than in the past.
But it was finally made, and the signature at the foot was: Julian Casti. He went out at once to the post. Two days later he received a reply, somewhat longer than his own epistle. The writer was clearly keeping himself in a tentative attitude. Still, he wrote something about his own position and his needs.
Roger told all this, and more, to Dorothy, so she was obliged to make a tentative promise, at least, that she would go with him to the castle the very first moment she could spare. The boy renewed his request after breakfast, and was quite insistent. "I can't go to-day," said his sister. "You know I have many little things to attend to, Roger. It is almost Christmas, you remember, and "
Then a change came over her tired face; a smile of mingled audacity and tentative coquetry lit up the small features. "Perhaps it is true; perhaps I may have a husband coming on the steamer that depends. Sit down, Jim."
Nice was not the adjective one would apply to it in sincere admiration. Robert Grant Burns himself had mentally called it a hummer. He did not reply to Jean's tentative apology for her own plot-idea. He was thinking about the idea itself. Robert Grant Burns was not what one would call petty. He would not, for instance, stick to his own story if he considered that Jean's was a better one.
First in order came the adherents of the established church, a church which was in a very real sense the creation of Queen Elizabeth and of her times for all that had gone before was unstable and tentative, and might readily have been altered by a ruler of different character or policy.
He longed to shout his news aloud. What luck was his! The world was made for him; there was no such thing as adversity or failure Chiquita was his wife! All Christendom might go to pot for all he cared; that marvellous fact was unalterable. Yes, and he could speak his mind to Mrs. Cortlandt. His tentative acceptance of the terms she made sickened him.
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