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"To-morrow is one of my busy days," replied Cope wanly. "Goldsmith, Sheridan...." "Well, we have other wage-workers in the house, you know. At seven-thirty, then, if you must." "Seven-thirty, if you please. Thank you." By the time Mrs. Phillips had returned to her guests, the first of the limousines was standing before the house; its wet top shone under an electric globe.
On reaching the farm he found that Rodier and the farmer were engaged in a friendly conversation, by the light of a carriage lamp which flickered wanly in the mist. "Wonderful machine, sir," said the farmer, whom Rodier had talked out of his ill-humour. "Your man has been showing me over it, as you may say, leastways as well as he could in this fog." "We must get her out at once," rejoined Smith.
Eugene dropped his arm from his eyes and stared into the face of his step-brother. "Joe Louden!" he gasped. "I'll never tell," said Joe. "You'd better keep out of all this sort. You don't understand it, and you don't you don't do it because you care." He smiled wanly, his odd distorted smile of friendliness. "When you go back you might tell father I'm all right.
"Anthony!" cried Gloria tensely, "we've won! They reversed the decision!" "Don't come in," he murmured wanly, "you'll muss them. I'm sorting, and I know you'll step in them. Everything always gets mussed." "What are you doing?" demanded Dick in astonishment. "Going back to childhood? Don't you realize you've won the suit? They've reversed the decision of the lower courts.
He swept the sweat drops from his forehead with the back of his hand noticing them for the first time. It had been close almost as close for him as it had been for old Luddy. And to-morrow the papers would execrate the Gray Seal! He smiled a little wanly. His breath was still coming hard. Presently they would scour the lane when they found that their quarry was not in the house.
For he has the curiosity of a cat, along with the obstinacy of a mule." I smiled, wanly. "I gather that I'm not to tell him anything. What further?" I wanted to know, not without irony. "This, then: that you keep on being engaged to me." I looked at him incredulously. "For the time being, Sophy, submit to my tentative claim.
Andrew Daney's soul, shaken by what was to him a cosmic cataclysm, caused that good man to rise at five o'clock and go down to the hospital for another look at Dirty Dan. To his anxious queries the doctor shook a dubious head, but the indomitable O'Leary smiled wanly. "Go on wit' ye!" he wheezed faintly. "I'll win be a hair-line decision."
The Colonel flushed at his own audacity. The girl smiled forgivingly, though a little wanly. "Oh, no, monsieur. I am only his friend and occasional model. He is in trouble, messieurs. I came to cheer him up. I live across the hall." Colonel Sutphen, scanning the far end of the room, failed to find the object of his inquiry.
If my old man couldn't think of me for ten minutes without snivelling, I'd have a divorce." Matty Cann smiled wanly. He had no great cause to "buck up," his share of the boiled leg would be very small indeed and entirely knuckle, the Professor holding that the knuckle end was not fat-producing. "It's Jane's birthday this day week, an' little Mat'll be two year old the day after.
Abel roared. Then he fell to in earnest on the coffin, whistling like a blackbird. Hazel sat down and watched him, resting her cheek on her hand. The cold snowlight struck on her face wanly. 'Dunna you ever think, making coffins for poor souls to rest in as inna tired, as there's a tree growing somewhere for yours? she asked. 'Laws! What's took you? Measles? What for should I think of me coffin?
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