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I should like to have the opportunity to do so indefinitely. Do you think there's a chance for me?" "What on earth do you mean?" asked his hostess, in unassumed stupefaction. "I mean, do you think she would marry me?" Varian brought out plumply. "Is there was there ever anybody else?" For one instant Mrs.
You will allow the comte to continue?" added the young man, as, with his eyes fixed on the musketeer, he seemed to read the very depths of his heart. "His interview with the king?" said D'Artagnan, in a tone so natural and unassumed that there was no means of suspecting that his astonishment was feigned. "You have seen the king, then, Athos?" Athos smiled as he said, "Yes, I have seen him."
At the unassumed ingenuousness of this remark I suffered my impassiveness to relax, as I replied with well-established pride that although a country which neglected its ancestors might doubtless be able to produce more of the ordinary or graveyard spectres, we were unapproachable for the diverse forms and malignant enmity of our apparitions.
The vicomte could see perfectly well that Victor's gaiety was natural and unassumed; that the past held him but loosely, since this past held the vision of an ax. The analyst passed on to Brother Jacques, and received a slight shock. The penetrating grey eyes of the priest caught his and held them menacingly.
By degrees the platform cleared, the erstwhile patrons of the road and the station loafers for the most part hall-marked natives of the region straggling off upon their several ways, some afoot, a majority in dilapidated surreys and buckboards. Amber watched them go with unassumed indifference; their type interested him little.
"Sixty pounds; but I was a fool, and doubled no trumps on a risky hand, on the chance of making the rubber. That was quite an exceptional drop!" "I should hope so, indeed!" Elma's horror was genuinely unassumed. "Sixty pounds! Why, it's more than many a poor family has to live on all the year round! Think of all the good you could do with sixty pounds!
My pity for the creature, his admiration for myself, his pleasure in my society, which was clearly unassumed, were the bonds with which I was fettered; perhaps I should add, in honesty, my own ill-regulated interest in the phases of life and human character. Yet all the while I could never forget he was a shabby trickster, embarked that very moment in a dirty enterprise.
Again and again she had this feeling when she was with him an uneasy intuition that his good humour was not entirely unassumed, that he was concealing a dangerous weapon beneath his offensive familiarity. "After all I may be going to surprise you," he said lightly enough, yet with this disturbing implication of some meaning that she could not discern.
Dr Middleton bowed to the litany, feeling that occasion called for humbleness from him. "Let us hope . . . !" he said, with unassumed penitence on behalf of his inscrutable daughter. The ladies resumed: " Vernon Whitford, not of his blood, is his brother!" " A thousand instances! Laetitia Dale remembers them better than we." " That any blow should strike him!"
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