Woodward watched him keenly, following his explanation carefully, as Arnold concluded.
It was not difficult to catch his enthusiasm over the marvellous invention, though we could not follow him through the mazes of explanation about radio-combinators, telecommutators and the rest of the technicalities.
And then on the morning of the fourteenth the explanation came.
A torrent of explanation from a schoolmaster who had been reported for speaking against the sacrament of the altar, calling the saints to witness that he was no follower of Fryth in such detestable heresy.
Lastly Sir James himself had been troubled; wondering whether he might not have been warmer with Ralph, more outspoken in his gratitude for the affair of the mummers, more ready to welcome an explanation from his son.
Uncle Peter's explanation of the condition of affairs was, in truth, feasible, and it was equally true that Marston's horses were feeling keenly the terrible strain they had just undergone.
When she asked for an explanation the following day, her father had put her off by saying it was purely a business matter which it was best she should not know about.
A moment later Glenning was back with Julia, telling her and the Major of Peter's explanation of the last heat.
The item told of the passing of the bank dividend, giving in explanation the reasons which Marston had declared to the directors of the institution.
My curiosity was excited, and although anxious not to distress his feelings, I could not avoid seeking some explanation of the change I observed.
It could not escape observation that here was real civilisation, and I anxiously sought for some explanation of the difference between the habits of this Indian and his neighbours.
Mr. Wharton would demand an explanation of the business for which the money is intended; and he would only view it with the calm and severe eye of a lawyer.
But I come to request an explanation of a certain affair which is to some degree enveloped in doubt and mystery—although, alas!
It seemed as if the spirits of those who had listened with deep attention to the foreman's narrative, were suddenly damped by the explanation that closed it.
The reader may imagine his confusion, when an explanation took place relative to the letter and the key; nor need we describe the bitter feelings with which he beat his ignominious retreat.
The Marquis requested our hero to be seated, and, having himself taken a chair, waited for an explanation of the motives of this visit.
But I promised you an explanation of those events which led to my precipitate departure from Castelcicala," continued Eliza, after a short pause.
I perceived that all attempts at explanation in respect to her husband's conduct were vain; and I accordingly obeyed this mandate.
I have only entered into this explanation to convince you that an unsettled mind or a disordered imagination—arising from either moral or physical causes—can alone conjure up phantoms.
Julia remained in ignorance of the object of the Colonel's visit and of this explanation between her mother and myself.
But I shall intrude no longer upon your lordship—unless it be to say that your candid explanation this day has gone far to retrieve the past in my estimation.
What could be the explanationof this sudden disappearance?
And in the explanation and elaboration of these points is one of the best opportunities for good teaching.
There is nothing more deadening to the recitation than a mechanical plodding through the questions and answers of a textbook without any explanation or amplification, and often without much comprehension on the part of the class.
Pierre Guerre since his explanation with Bertrande had apparently discovered no more evidence, and did not dare to bring an accusation without some positive proofs.
An appalling terror seized Bertrande: was she to remain in this uncertainty, or should she seek an explanation which might prove her destruction?
I simply wanted to have a perfectly frank explanationwith you on this subject.
I have not thought it best to have an explanation on the spot.
The serious interview, the decisive explanation that Paul was so desirous to have with him, Jansoulet would not have at any price.
The explanation is a convincing one," replied Lao Ting.
This explanation by no means satisfied the one who now narrates, and after much research he has brought to light the forgotten story of Yuen Yan's early life, which may be thus related.
Yes, that's right," responded Carl, with a pleased look on finding his explanation had proved successful.
The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.
Side by side with the above mentioned facts are others that sustain, it is claimed, the idea of common origin; and suggest an explanation of how the varieties of animal and vegetable forms were brought into existence.
Finding so much that was contrary to well known facts, not so much in the theory itself, as in the explanations of it by its advocates, induced men of intelligence to look for some other explanation of the genesis of things.
In that explanationit is said: "Behold the mystery of godliness, how great is it?
Footnote O: The subject of salvation for the dead is treated at length in a subsequent chapter, hence I enter into no explanation here.
She added composedly:-- "Your kindness deserved this explanation and will accept it.
Your delicacy will not prefer to entail the misery of explanation on me.
He resolved that after the funeral he would continue his journey, and write to her, en route, a fullexplanation of his conduct, inclosing Daddy's letter as corroborative evidence.
But with this relief and the certainty that he could confound her with an explanation came a certain mischievous desire to prolong the situation and increase his triumph.
All San Francisco laughed at this explanation until it learned that a corroboration of the theory had been established by an assay of the dust and grime of the roofs in the vicinity of the Mint.
I am aware that a different explanation of Grant's resignation has been rumored through the country, and the vile slander that he had become addicted to intemperate habits has been circulated over the land.
There had been nothing wanting, perhaps, but this explanation from Euphemia, to render me fully sensible of my own powers and advantages.
All at once I felt within me the solution of the riddle, the explanation of the cause why I was thus changed.
Demons in cloaks and capucines are, according to the explanation of a man versed in the subject, of a phallic nature.
There is a sort of preliminary explanation to be strengthened by interpolations and slight alterations.
His behavior was ascribed to fatigue; but a better explanation was forthcoming when the next morning he told his dream: he had ascended the Dachstein.
There was only one explanation for my being impelled to select just this substitution for the day thought.
If this explanation brings the dream into line with the formation of psychical disease, it becomes the more important to fathom the essential conditions of processes like dream building.
It is not for us to deny the demonic element which has played a part in constructing our explanation of dream work.
We are, however, fully justified in expecting that the explanationof psychical processes in children, essentially simplified as they may be, should serve as an indispensable preparation towards the psychology of the adult.
At this stage of the explanationshe no longer denied that the picture of the dream really corresponded to one of her wishes.
Our explanation makes the dream only the first member of a group most important for the psychiatrist, an understanding of which means the solution of the purely psychological part of the psychiatric problem.
Nay, the news conveyed in Jane's letter had brought with it the explanation of what had happened.
Was it possible that Jane had gone off for the day to the Small Farm in order to avoid the very explanation Athena wished to provoke?
Not even his cousin, the young man whom he now trusted and loved as men only trust and love an only son, had ever received any explanation of what had happened.
Without a word or explanation I caught up my hat, and left the house in a hurry, and Mrs. O'Finn in a state of nervousness that threatened to become hysterical.
A very brief and simple explanation restored his good humour, and the subject was dropped.
Coming to demand explanation of the affair at Gadshill, the conversation ends with his being asked for the loan of a thousand pounds.
I shall come to an immediate explanation with your father on the subject nearest my heart, and depart while I have a change of dress left.
The explanation of her position lowered her considerably in his eyes.
The explanation is to be sought in the situation and defects of the ground upon which Slaugham Place stood: a marshy tract of land, which no builder of to-day would think of selecting as a site for so important a dwelling.
The explanation of that singular condition of affairs is found in the curious reluctance of Parliament, two generations ago, to give any one railway company the sole control of any particular route.
What other explanation is there for the existence of so many different languages on earth?
In the days of Kukin and Pustovalov and then of the veterinary surgeon, Olenka had had an explanation for everything, and would have given her opinion freely no matter about what.
To the explanation of the most obstinate of all problems--the nature of the vital principle--we seem to have made a great step when we introduce a current of electricity circulating through the nerves.
The general asked, in a harsh tone, for a further explanation of their words, and the officers gave it to him.
I am king still, and I believe my functionaries owe me an explanation when refusing to undertake a task which I ask them to perform.
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