Abjectly he grovelled: He regard the ineffable Madame Guilbert as a light woman!

After a time he growled tentatively, and then, awed by the immobility of the human figures, lowered his head and grovelled away backward.

'Get up, you grovelling hound!

So fickle is popular favor that when the crowd saw that nothing happened, they spurned the god loudly before whom they had grovelled in the dust till then.

Within, Mr. Claridge, a brisk, stout, little old man, was talking earnestly to a burly police-inspector in uniform, and Mr. Cutler, who had seized the opportunity to attempt amateur detective work on his own account, was groveling perseveringly about the floor, among old porcelain and loose pieces of armor, in the futile hope of finding any clue that the thieves might have considerately dropped.

"Too latetoo late," he moaned, groveling weakly, as if struggling for breath.