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"Somebody, please put the lid on that youngster a minute," continued Dick, looking at Sam in well-assumed indignation. "As I was saying, -or about to say, -I have often wished that I knew more about the queer formations along the banks of rivers where I have gone on fishing trips.
Against any such attempt, made with resources well within hail, the slender troop of the Guides would naturally come in for some rough buffeting. Much, however, to the surprise, and possibly the relief, of the British officers, they were received not only without any signs of hostility, but with smiles of well-assumed welcome.
Her face hardened, and he saw her fingers lock together. 'Where a man is in love, solitude seems to him the most unnatural of conditions. 'Please don't make me your confidante, Mr. Barfoot, Rhoda with well-assumed pleasantry. 'I have no taste for that kind of thing. 'But I can't help doing so. It is you that I am in love with. 'I am very sorry to hear it.
He gazed at the Rancheros for a moment with well-assumed astonishment, and then, appearing to comprehend the situation, he shouted: "Stick together, fellows, and fight for your liberties! Don't give up, like a pack of cowards! Knock 'em down! Shoot 'em! Take your hand off that bridle, you villain!"
But now open your ears and follow my advice: Do not reveal the state of your heart until you have left the castle so far behind that you are out of sight of the Bohemian princess, or your ship of happiness may be wrecked within sight of port." Then, with a well-assumed air of indignation, she abruptly turned her back upon him.
"Laodice!" he repeated amiably. "A familiar name; eh, Amaryllis?" Laodice waited. Philadelphus looked again at her and appeared to wait. "I am Laodice," the girl repeated, a little disconcerted, "thy wife." "So!" Philadelphus exclaimed. There was such well-assumed astonishment in the exclamation that she raised her eyes quickly to his face.
After all had voted, the hat was turned and the votes assorted; when it appeared that four votes had been thrown for Gaut Gurley and three for Mark Elwood, making seven in all, and showing that all the company had voted. "Well, friend Elwood," said Gaut, with a well-assumed air of indifference, when the result was seen, "shall I resign in your favor, or you in mine?
They were standing close to each other as he held up the blood-spattered stick. "Oh, Hugh," she gasped, "is it blood?" "Life's blood," he answered laconically. "Not yours, Hugh? You are not hurt?" she cried. "This is the beast's blood, Tennys. I am not so much as scratched, but it was a frightful encounter," he went on, with well-assumed gravity. "Tell me about it. Where was it? What was it?
What a contrast to the risk I was about to run! Twenty-five francs, my dear Sir, just for knocking at the door of Mlle. Mars' dressing-room during the fourth act, whilst I was engaged in conversation with the attractive guardian of the iron safe, and to say in well-assumed, breathless tones: "Mademoiselle Mars has been taken suddenly unwell on the stage. Will her maid go to her at once?"
Lawrence Bury, with real or well-assumed enthusiasm; but Zelma, replying to his interruption only by a slight blush, went on to say, that she had been taught that poetry, art, and romances were all idle pastimes and perilous lures, unbecoming and unwholesome to a young English gentlewoman, whose manifest destiny it was to tread the dull, beaten track of domestic duty, with spirit chastened and conformed.
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