" There was an awkward silence, and then somebody asked: "Will the chairman state if he has a plan for meeting a situation he admits is difficult?" Cartwright smiled rather grimly.

When I had completed the ceremonial round, there was a somewhat awkward silence, which Eveena at last broke by suggesting that Eunané should show us through the house, with which she had made the earliest acquaintance.

There was an awkward silence for a moment, while all eyes turned curiously upon Louise, who served this side of the triangle.

There followed an awkward silence, which Mike broke by remarking that he had carted a half volley from Saunders over the on-side hedge that morning.

Strangely enough, under the circumstances, the girl was the first to recover and break the awkward silence.

The two girls stood silent for a moment while Leith and I surveyed each other without speaking, then a Tahitian boy broke the awkward silence by informing me that the captain wished to see me in the cabin, and I hurriedly excused myself to the sisters and went below.

John took everything that Alice offered to him in gloomy and awkward silence.

Let me go home and pray for you!" There was an awkward silence among the men, till some fellow said, "She'm gone mad after that doctor, I think, with his muck-hunting notions.

"Good morning," replied his father, rather coldly, and for a moment there was an awkward silence.

He said nothing further, and in the awkward silence she began pitifully to button her coat.

There was a rather awkward silence.

I broke what might have been an awkward silence, chatting with the older children about their school lessons.

Duncan was there, and remarking his wild look and demeanor, asked, after a moment's awkward silence, "Is anything the matter, Williams?" "Williams!"

"There come a kind of awkward silence again, me thanking the Lord that we was almost there.

And then come an awkward silence.

" An awkward silence fell between them for a minute, and these two old creatures, who for more than fifty years had felt no constraint in each other's presence, now looked into each other's eyes with a fearful diffidence.

An awkward silence ensued, when Leroy, pressing her hand, exclaimed: "This is the hand that plucked me from the grave, and I am going to retain it as mine; mine to guard with my care until death us do part.

An awkward silence began to fall between them.

The marchesa broke the awkward silence.

Prince Ruspoli breaks the awkward silence.

"Then stop that kind of talk, right there!" There was an awkward silence.

An awkward silence followed; Teresa broke it gayly: "But your girl, your sweetheart, my benefactorwill she let you go?" "I haven't told her yet," said Low, gravely, "

An awkward silence ensued.

In the awkward silence that followed, the hands of the two brothers sought and grasped each other, penitently.

"My cousin, De Caylus, has lately returned from Algiers on leave of absence," said Madame de Courcelles, after a few moments of awkward silence, during which I had not known what to say.