"No," she replied quietly, "I will stay here.

His disappearance would occasion no comment; his absence would lead to no inquiries, at least for several weeks, during which the murderer would have leisure quietly to dispose of the body and conceal all traces of the crime.

As soon as the housemaid had left the room I quietly let myself out by the French window, which I closed behind me but could not fasten, went out at the side gate and closed that also behind me, holding the bolt of the latch back with my pocket-knife so that I need not slam the gate to shut it.

" He paused and quietly lit his cigarette.

When she returned, panting and breathless, her mother was sitting quite quietly by the window, looking out at the cedars.

Meantime Mrs. Carey had put out the lamp and lay quietly thinking.

"Then either Gladys has a remarkable gift of loving, or else you are a different Julia in her company," remarked Mother Carey, quietly, raising Julia's astonishment and perturbation to an immeasurable height.

"Did you see the questions that were asked in the House yesterday?" Phipps leaned back in his chair and laughed quietly.

Just go at it quietly but unwaveringly.

"Stop, please," he ordered quietly.

Then it's our only chance; if we miss this what else could we do?" "Nothing," Tom replied quietly.

"No reason to believe so, Jack," he remarked quietly.

Ancelot is sitting quietly by her fireside, one evening in October, (some short time after the establishment of the monarchy of July,) waiting to hear the result of a representation at the Théâtre Français, where a piece of her own is for the first time being performed.

I followed Lord Grey and spoke very quietly

The Duke of Wellington thinks we shall gradually bring the King round, and induce him to move more quietly.

Cromwell, on his part, betrayed no symptom of impatience; but waited quietly for the moment when he had resolved [Footnote 1: Thurloe, i. 668, 681, 685.

And then there happens that which has been well and freshly described by the lamented Feuchtersleben, who died so young: how people cry out in their haste that nothing is being done, while all the while great work is quietly growing to maturity; and then, when it appears, it is not seen or heard in the clamor, but goes its way silently, in modest grief: "Ist doch"rufen sie

We were out in mid-stream in a small rowing boat, moving quietly with the tide, when, just as the Hamburg steamer came in sight, a four-oared galley ran aboard of us, and the man who held the lines in it called out, "You have a returned transport there.

They had all trusted to find her, as they had always done, quietly in the right place at the right moment.

Then the young Chilti rose, followed them, caught them up, tied them in turn hand and foot, laid them side by side on a slab of stone, and quietly cut their throats.

"I was very interested," he said quietly.

" Holman crept quietly toward the campfire, and I waited in the undergrowth.

As Teddy quietly perched himself on the seat beside his mother, he murmured to himself, 'Twenty soldiers in front of me, twenty rifles pointingI shall stand like a rockI'll set my teeth, and I shan't even blink my eyes.

Kneel down quietly by yourself somewhere, and first of all ask that the Holy Spirit may guide you, that your sins may be blotted out, and your name written in the Book of Life, for the sake of Jesus who died for you.

"Olga," he said quietly.