... more terrified now, declared mother as we sat after dinner await' ng Frau- lein's return than I was before. She's sure to speak her mind, said father, moving the wine glasses nervously. We shall get the worst of it, said my sister to me. And when we ...

... foreigners. I speak and write French and German like my own lingo. I read aloud I am a good sick nurse I can manage a house, arrange flowers, make a hat, sew a bit, write quickly, tot up figures, &c., and get the most fun for my money, and I speak the Kmg's ...

... for my sake, no. You will do as we have arranged. After to-night, as -you can't write with that poor wrist of yours, you'll speak one letter into your phonograph 'telling me that you are engaged. Then send me the cylinder, I'll fit it on my phonograph ...

... up and reshape itself. The eyes expressed an earnest sense of need, an appeal of some kind the lips moved as if they would speak but could not. While I returned the look, held by an indescribable fascination, I grew aware that this was a being not subject ...

... systematic swindler, quite an expert in making money out of ideas stolen from other men's brains A whistle piped thinly from the speaking tube. Yes, said the editor, applying his ear. He smiled as he received the answer. Show Clifford Marley up here in my room ...

... had told me last week that in a few days I should have altogether broken with Harry Pomeroy, and that never again should I speak with my dearest friend, Lulu Malincourt-- well, to put it mildly, I simply shouldn't have believed it. Not that I care a pin ...

... volunteering for the 1 70th and1 endeavouring to look after Mary's lover. Jim- approached the Colonel with this view. Can I speak to you, sir, for a moment he asked one morning. Certainly, Patman, replied the Colonel. What is it Well, sir, this is how ...

... I gave what I thought rather a neat definition of a philanthropist, one who does good that evil may come, she declined to speak to me for quite half an hour, and then uttered remarks about me which made me wish her silence had been prolonged. She repeated ...

... decay of religion and the increase of supersti tion are among the most noteworthy of the social changes I have seen. When I speak of the decay of religion of course I must bs understood to refer only to external observances. As to interior convic tions ...

... besides listen ing to the infernal nonsense you are talking. The clerk smiled it was not a pleasant smile. Well, he said, speaking slowly, I was going to remark that it was fortunate- in a certain way for you that the girl you married was such a friend ...

... to ignorance to see knowledge bested and sciolism triumphant. Sciolism is a good word, said Barker, but perhaps you'll speak English. I don't carry a dictionary about my clothes. Sciolism, my dear boy, said Bones patronisingly, is another word for ...

... but where's the sense Can't you keep your mouth shut, with sudden exasperation, or must I make you You won't let anybody speak, com plained the waiter. What I want to tell you is what you apparently don't know, and that is that being Friday Mr. Paterson ...