Then he had come again, and had simply asked her whether she were engaged to another man; had asked with a cruel indication that he at least intended that the old childish words should be forgotten.
He had asked to see Urmand, and he now went out in quest of him.
Lopez would simply reply that he had asked him to pay nothing.
In doing this his manner was not quite so gentle as when he had asked her to call on them.
Darrow wished to use his diplomatic opportunities as a means of studying certain economic and social problems with which he presently hoped to deal in print; and with this in view he had asked for, and obtained, a South American appointment.
BOOK IV XXIII The next day was Darrow's last at Givre and, foreseeing that the afternoon and evening would have to be given to the family, he had asked Anna to devote an early hour to the final consideration of their plans.
I turned my eyes on the old man, still bending forward, intently watching for the sign he had asked her to make.
That was the easy answer I returned to the question I had asked myself.
I answered hotly that he had not treated me like a friend; that if he had asked me for the weapon it would have been lent to him; that as he had taken it without permission he must pay me for it.
She had, however, refused to run away with him when he had asked her.
He had asked her to come to his studio to see a picture he had begun.
She had, Agnes heard her mother say, succeeded in making him so jealous that he had asked her to marry him.
But how others acted was not his concern; he must consider his own competence to bear the burden--the perilous burden he had asked, and which had been promised to him.
At one time there had come upon him an idea that he would endeavour to seek Ruby and his enemy among the dancing saloons of the metropolis; and he had asked a question with that view.
These two last questions Sir Felix had asked in a whisper, but his countenance showed plainly that he was speaking in anger.
Melmotte had endeavoured to throw a certain supplicatory pathos into the question he had asked her; but, though he was in some degree successful with his voice, his eyes and his mouth and his forehead still threatened her.
Mr Broune had sent her son away, had forbidden her to write any more novels and had been refused when he had asked her to marry him!
I should have told him better if he had asked me, but it's come up, and it's worth considerable more than he paid for it.
He had asked to be presented to Ellen from curiosity.
He had said not a word to any one, not even to his foreman, of his purpose to close the factory until it was quite fixed; he had asked no advice, explained to no one the course of reasoning which led to his doing so.
If he asked her to marry him again, as he had asked her to marry him before, would she now say yes, instead of no?
It was the question that Otto himself had asked--that any cynic must have asked.
And yet she had never hesitated when he had asked her to marry him.
I didn't feel absolutely safe till I had asked Tolfree if there had been any shooting of echoes by the party, but his denial rounded out my chain of evidence.
He seemed surprised at my presence, but greeted me very pleasantly as soon as I explained that the Missouri Western office had asked me to do what I could for him, and that I was there for that purpose.
What was the use of returning to England with that paltry sum, he had asked.
He had asked advice, but his own mind was made up.
The clerk understood her to ask for a return ticket, but as she picked it up with the change for the five pound note with which she paid for it, she said that she thought she had asked for a single ticket.
The Secretary of War, Mr. Benjamin, in detaching him to the Valley, had asked him to "forward suggestions as to the means of rendering his measures of defence effectual.
Old Jack" had asked them to do their best, and that was enough to command their most strenuous efforts.
He wished now that he had asked Hinde to read it before it had been sent to the publisher.
But he had asked her to go to the theatre, and he did not wish to disappoint her.
In the morning, he had asked Mrs. MacDermott to look for Don Quixote in the attic and bring it to him, and she had done so.
The doctor blamed him for doing so, and just as if I had asked him he told us of a young man who had died from the same cause, and said that there was nothing more dangerous than breathing in dust.
He opened: the cell door to bring in my dinner and the furniture I had asked for.
The gaoler asked him, as he had asked me, what he would have for dinner, and for money to pay for it.
He had asked to join this group not only because he wanted to be near his two friends but because he wanted still more to be near the Milo.
No wonder he had forgotten everything which his mother had asked him to do.
Not that he had asked it in so many words and stood hesitating, fearing to take the divergent path until he could take her willing blessing with him.
But he was beginning to feel it not altogether a joke; it had acquired an element of mystery, of fatality, which flattered while it awed him; and he could not be easy till he had asked one of the freight-handlers what had happened to the car.
He met me with what for him was ardor; and as he had asked me most cordially about my family, I thought it fit to inquire how the ladies at the Bentley place were.
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