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"Did you ever notice, Shorty," said Si, speculatively, as he looked over the tin cup of cool water he was sipping, "how long and straight and string-like the cat-brier grows down here in this country? You see 25 or 30 feet of it at times no thicker'n wooltwine. Now, there's a piece layin' right over there, on t'other side o' the branch, more'n a rod long, and no thicker'n a rye straw."
He shook his head. "Ah no, no! You shall not stay here. If you will accept my assistance, all will be well." "But you can't carry me!" gasped Chris. He rose to his feet, still smiling. "And why not, little one? Because you think that I have not the strength?" Chris looked up at him speculatively. She felt no shyness; he was not the sort of person with whom she could feel shy.
"You were about to tell me of a big find you've made. Go on." "Ah, yes. But" Hayden laughed a little ruefully "you've put the thing entirely too definitely when you say 'a big find I've made. The bother of it is that I have and I haven't." "What do you mean by that?" asked Horace, cocking his head sidewise and looking at his host speculatively. "Just what I say," replied the latter.
Similarly, Chatelier has had and will have his women, Anandrusung and Nishimura their cherished revenges. Hartkopf his power, and so on." He eyed the other speculatively, then went on: "I might as well spill it all, since I'll never have a better chance and since you should know what the rest of us do. You're in the same boat with us and tarred with the same brush.
The American settled himself in his chair, his hands clasped behind his head, staring at the harbour lights, his thoughts very obviously some thousands of miles away. Craven watched him speculatively.
His views were not sufficiently broad, and he did not even see comprehensively all that was within his range, but his good sense, very good, speculatively, added to his suavity, his insinuating style, and his easy manners, which are admirable, ought to have compensated more than it did for his lack of penetration.
He walked to the door and took out his gun as he examined the padlock. "What are you going to do?" asked Sautee excitedly. "I'm goin' to blow the lock off," said Rathburn coolly. "Don't do it!" cried Sautee. "There's high-percentage dynamite in there and T N T caps that we use on road work dozens of boxes of it. You might set it off!" Rathburn looked at the quaking mine manager speculatively.
This was old fencing ground between them, and Stephen parried her pleasantly enough, but his eyes strayed speculatively to the other end of the table, where, however, they rose no higher than the firm, lightly-moulded hand that held the cigarette. "If I could found a monastic order," Hilda said, "one of the rules should be a week's compulsory retirement into the world four times a year."
Helen folded her hands in her lap, and for a moment gazed speculatively at the sister she knew she adored. "Well," she went on presently. "Let us keep to the charge. Five years ago this spirit of independence and adventure was very strong in Kate Seton. Far, far stronger than it is now. That's by the way.
"Well, not to say exactly know her, sir, but everybody knows of her. She is a most remarkable old person, sir." Then, after watching his face for a moment or so, he added tentatively, "Would you perhaps wish us to make her acquaintance for for any reason?" Tembarom thought the matter over speculatively. He had learned that his first liking for Pearson had been founded upon a rock.
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