... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... again that I will not be driven at that disgraceful pace The masked figure of the chauffeur remained silent. Why don't you speak, man Because, milord, I have a very bad cold and have lost my voice, replied the chauffeur in a hoarse whisper. Oh, all right ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... veil, with two bridesmaids, with the youngest Pawling boy as a page, with The-Voice-that- breathed-o'er-Eden and, generally speaking, with pomp. She was quite happy in a placid way for some time after her marriage, and she did not drop the sister down at ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Now, just you pay attention to me, Willie, said his sister. I've spoken to you more than once already, and I'm not going to speak to you again. I wonder what your father will say when I tell him all about it. This nice gentleman here has explained everything ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...