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There is nothing I can offer you which would have any value for you, so I can only beg you not to disappoint me well, because I am your friend." I turned away my head, hesitating, and when I looked up again I saw that her beautiful eyes were full of tears. Naturally that settled the matter, so I only said, "Let us get on with the affair. What am I to do? Stop a bit.
Jean, after hesitating a moment, accepted a "pony" of brandy for himself. "Your good health, corporal!" said Chouteau in a respectful, whining tone. "Thank you; here's hoping that you may bring back your head and all your legs and arms!" Jean politely replied, while the others laughed approvingly.
I've got a near relative that's come into a fortune. Now I think I ought to come in for a share." "To be sure!" "Have another game of euchre, Dick?" "I don't know I ought to be going," said the kidnapper, hesitating. "We'll make it poker, and the boy may take a hand." "No," said Jasper, languidly. "I don't know how to play." "We'll teach you." "I don't care about it."
Hearing this mention of their old friend's name, the four Miss Kenwigses gathered round Nicholas, open eyed and mouthed, to hear more. Mr Kenwigs looked a little curious too, but quite comfortable and unsuspecting. 'The message relates to family matters, said Nicholas, hesitating.
Clad in their argent mail of blue and green, they worked the bay to madness; they overwhelmed the waters, surging forward in great droves and columns, hesitating only long enough to frolic with the shifting currents, as if rejoicing in their strength and beauty.
I suppose I could have put it in evidence, Mr Chivery, if I had thought it worth my while, that the amount of solid sustenance my daughter consumed at that period did not exceed ten ounces per week. 'I think I go a little beyond that, sir, returned the other, hesitating, as if he confessed it with some shame.
"But she is not on the floor above us, sire; she is upon the same floor as we are," insisted the old man, hesitating. "Joseph, who do you think I am?" asked Barney. "You are the king, my lord," replied the old man. "Then do as your king commands," said the American sharply. Joseph turned with dubious mutterings and approached the tiled panel at the left of the fireplace.
Yet we find magistrates and juries hesitating to expose crimes of the blackest dye to eternal contempt and infamy, to the vengeance of the law. "As a Louisianian parent, I reflect with terror that our beloved children, reared to become one day honorable and useful citizens, may be the victims of these votaries of vice and licentiousness.
Then he left it and walked to the desk, placing a hand on its top and hesitating. Doubtless his father was in another part of the house, possibly eating supper. He decided not to bother him at this moment and seated himself in a chair before the desk. There was plenty of time.
"Whom have you here, my lad?" began the ruler, as his nephew, hesitating for words to explain his strange request, moved his fins nervously backwards and forwards. "Strange company, it seems to me, you are keeping these days." "Only a poor man, most royal sir," replied the other, "who beseeches your Highness to grant him your gracious favour."
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