" I ladled out a portion of salmon, and we fell into pleasant conversation, chatting of this servants' ball at the Stretchley-Budds and speculating idly, I recall, as to what Seppings, the butler, would look like, doing the rumba.

I suppose," she speculated philosophically, "I suppose any great jolt that shakes you up a lot, shakes things into different proportions.

I strolled on by her side, speculating a little anxiously on the coming introduction.

He began even to speculate desperately on the good priest's chances of tumbling into an air-hole, or being devoured by a timely wolf.

But as I retraced my steps along the shady path I speculated profoundly on the officer's proceedings.

All through the dinner hour at the Tom Forsythes he had thought about her, had speculated vaguely what mischance or effrontery had been responsible for her ill-timed visit to Flint's.

The truth is, men have speculated so wildly, they have no money to devote to historical or literary plans.

I know the sacredness of married life too well to speculate irreverently on its affairs.

We found refuge in the Charing Cross Hotel, where we speculated merrily on the eccentricities of religious charity.

I remember speculating curiously upon the probability of Noah's having ever been seasick; wondering how the sea-going qualities of the Ark would compare with those of our brig, and whether she had our brig's uncomfortable way of pitching about in a heavy swell.

I doubt, however, if even the most ardent and optimistic of capitalists would care to speculate deeply upon the stability of any government capital might organize, which rested on the fundamental principle that the American people must be ruled by an army.

Rigorously she forbore to speculate upon the attraction which had drawn John and Paula togetherupon what had happened between themupon how the thing had looked and felt to either of them.

From the Penniman pew he could glance across to a side pew and observe a line of repeated Whipple noses, upon which for some moments he was enabled to speculate forgetfully.

It was only after Micawber had found that Uriah Heep had forged Mr. Wickfield's name to various documents, and had fraudulently speculated with moneys entrusted by my aunt, amongst others, to his partner, that he turned upon him and denounced him, and accomplished what he called "the final pulverisation of Keep.

He appears to have speculated rather heavily and considerably beyond his means, for when a sudden spasm of the market upset his calculations, it turned out that he had been employing his clients' capital and securities.

It was, however, a general rule of Roman economy that one should rather take small shares in many speculations than speculate independently; Cato advised the capitalist not to fit out a single ship with his money, but in concert with forty-nine other capitalists to send out fifty ships and to take an interest in each to the extent of a fiftieth part.

We never speculate individually, at least that is a condition of our agreement.

" The young man still took a deep interest in affairs political, and speculated rather keenly on the outcome of the tremendous happenings on the Continent.

The plain folks around Millville might speculate listlessly upon the "queer doin's" at the farm, and never get anywhere near the truth.

And as he considered knowledge to be identical with virtue, he speculated on ethical questions mainly, and the method which he taught was that by which alone man could become better and wiser.

Jeanne, her maid, speculated as to this openly.

SENSUALITY, SENTIMENTALITY, AND SENTIMENT From beginnings not yet understoodthough Haeckel and others have speculated plausibly on the subjectthere has been developed in animals and human beings an appetite which insures the perpetuation of the species as the appetite for food does that of the individual.

A bevy of pretty girls thronged around him, freshly beautiful after the German type, blond and blue-eyed in attractive summer draperies, and I speculated pleasantly as to which among them were sisters and which sweethearts.

Perhaps she was but a common courtesan who, attracted by the handsome appearance and tender look of the priest, counted on speculating profitably in a clandestine intrigue.

A reading of Cotter's poems is certain to induce that mood in which one will regretfully speculate on what the young poet might have accomplished had he not been cut off so soon.