To big Neddy's perturbed imagination it looked as if Mr. Saffron had set one foot upon the floor of the dais and was going to rise from his seat, perhaps to come down from the dais, to come nearer to his graveto ask for his scepter.

The sentry, seeing these soldiers arrive, halted, but at the moment when he was going to challenge them with a qui-vive, the Adjutant-Major seized his arm, and, in his capacity as the officer empowered to countermand all instructions, ordered him to give free passage to the 42d, and at the same time commanded the amazed porter to open the door.

Danbury had too many friends for that, however, and it really looked as if the poor chap was going to the bad, when a very curious thing happened which pulled him up with such a sudden jerk that he never put his hand upon the neck of a whisky bottle again.

"Look at that cloak and the cap," said Sharpman, "and tell me if they are the articles worn by the child who was going to the city with this old man after the accident.

For a time it looked as if there was going to be serious trouble; then, quite unexpectedly, he managed to raise the necessary amount in some way and settle all claims.

Seeing that he was going to get up in order to give her more, she herself rose quickly and did it for herself.

So I didn't bring any blankets; but when I asked her just now where we were going to sleep, she said she hadn't the faintest notion where I was going to sleep, but she was going to sleep alone in the woods, away from the rest of us.

It was Felicite crying, coming in and going out on tiptoe, setting things in order, spying about, whispering, dropping into a chair, to get up again a moment afterward, after saying that she was going to die in it.

She hemmedI was going to speak, to spare her supposed confusion: but this lady never wants presence of mind, when presence of mind is necessary either to her honour, or to that conscious dignity which distinguishes her from all the women I ever knew.

His impatience was so great, that he travelled almost night and day, already imitating the example of the master he was going to serve; no wood, no river was impassable to him that shortened the distance to the place he so much longed to approach: and thus by inuring himself to hardship, became fitly qualified to bear his part in all the vast fatigues to which that prince incessantly exposed his royal person.

Dear Wilson Lightening I was going to call you You must have thought me negligent in not answering your letter sooner.

The only person who dared oppose the wishes of the young Nawab was his mother, but her advice was of no avail, and her taunt that he, a soldier, was going to war upon mere traders, was equally inefficacious.

One word from you to say you'd have stayed, and he was going to make you agent for all his Cornish property.

" "I was going to ask you to let me take a photograph presently," said Thorndyke.

I told you the first day you could talkthat I was going to give up singing altogether except just for you,when you wanted me to.

He had just found out that he was going to visit Mrs. Wayne.

Even while Clara's tear-stained appeal was going to him, another letter of his crossed hers.

I was hungry and sleepy, and 'ow I was going to get through the day I couldn't think.

This evening I was going to a dance at the Insane Hospital.

"Poor Milly" had a horror of sanatoriums, so he was going to take her to some quiet place on the south coast.

"That's shag," said Dunkerley, "I was going to say 'a harem of one'.

I had heard a great deal respecting the splendid race of men I was going to visit, and the few specimens I had occasionally met with at Sydney so much pleased me, that I was extremely anxious to see a number of them together, to judge whether (as a nation) they were finer in their proportions than the English, or whether it was mere accident that brought some of their tallest and finest proportioned men before me.

He said that he was afraid that he was going to lose the power of his right side, that he was becoming numb all over.

The halt was going to end.

Now the existing squire was going to marry, and the matter could not so be regarded any longer.