... Passee tittered. The dear little fellow is going to try an experiment, she gushed. How clever of him. While Miss Passee was speaking Tommy had carefully placed the clock on the table in front of her. With a mysterious gesture he laid his finger on his lips ...

... critical habit, by a conse quent feeling for com parison, know how a thing should be played if justice is to be done. J do not speak with any thought of innuendo for, indeed, I write this as one not knowing, but I should indeed like to know how many of the ...

... earth that woman married that man? The second is, Why on earth that man married that woman In the instance of which I am speaking the first problem presented itself in its most hopeless form. The man was not good-looking, nor distin guished, nor wealthy ...

... deacons of his diocese not to lay themselves open to the condemnatory reproach of being clerical flirts. They should, so to speak, try to make Sheepshanks rather than sheep's-eyes. Mean while, curates who have received gifts of slippers are feeling distinctly ...

... impending move on Herat it simply means that there are very few topics of public interest on which a Russian journalist can speak his mind safely, and the demerits of England are quite safe at all times because we do not read Russian. We are only just beginning ...

... railway company. The judge insisted on having the whole working of the engine explained to him, whereupon the counsel who was speaking asked for an adjournment of the trial for twelve months when he would be able to give the required explanation. A Fainting ...

... particular is that it will be pub lished without a title of its own. With its hundred titled editors its satin pages will speak for themselves. I shall have to ask aunt for a few days. Shall I call it a visit, or what? Well, personally, I should call ...

... places with Parisian cabdrivers and to make money out of belated country men and women who are glad to get hold of a cocher who speaks English if even through his nose. All these cabbies, who are now taking this novel way of seeing Paris, claim to be collegians ...

... very liberally. He told his wife that she could have no conception what the City had been like that day. He did not suppose, speaking frankly, that there had ever been anything like it since the world began, or ever would be again. It is unnecessary to add ...

... them. The train slowed into the station. The man rose and lifted their shabby luggage down from the rack. No, he added, speak ing as if to himself, I think I should kill them. What's that the woman asked sharply. Never m i n d. Here, catch hold of ...

... would be help, comfort, money for a new start in life. But what would that old friend think There would be the disgrace to speak of, the term of imprisonment, the expulsion from his profession, for it was evident that the writer had never heard of it. ...

... death 1 ain't. Margaret went on in silence without turning. Look 'ere, Mawg'rit, if yer want to 'it me yer can. Yer might speak to anybody. I sye, let's play at sutthink else, shall us The perambulator was dropped, and Mar garet flung herself on the grass ...