One moment I thought him clever, the next an utter ass; now I found him frank, open, a good companion, eager to please,and then a droop of his blond eyelashes, a lazy, impertinent drawl of his voice, a hint of half-bored condescension in his manner, convinced me that he was shy and affected.

Bruce had now at last left his companion, but still Aylmer Ross did not go and speak to her, though he was sitting alone.

I asked my companion what it was that made the noise I heard, and he, supposing that I referred to sounds that came up occasionally from the lake, after listening for a moment, answered that it was made by the wild geese.

Was Beaumaroy telling his companion about something that had been happening at the house?

We rejoined our companions in a little bay that lay quietly around a rocky promontory, where we found them enjoying a dinner of venison and trout, under the shade of some huge firtrees, by the side of a beautiful spring that came bubbling up, in its icy coldness, from beneath the tangled roots of a stinted and gnarled birch.

They had been left at the entrance, but now in lack of results had joined their companions.

He was conscious that he had lost his companion, but he seemed no longer to require his instruction; and casting down his own worthless burthen, he laded himself with the riches that courted his touch.

As they were sitting together at the table, Mr. P., having mentally rubbed up his knowledge of the French language, addressed his companion thus: "Avez-vous le chapeau de mon frere?

" Jack Vance joined him immediately, and Mugford, not wishing to be left alone outside, was not long in making up his mind to follow his companions.

Still, it had been impossible altogether to prevent the obtrusion of disagreeable surmises, and all now sincerely rejoiced at seeing their late companion once more among them, seemingly in a state of mind that announced neither guilt nor degradation.

Then, as a last treat, he led his panting companions through several lively up-hill blocks of drug-mills and tobacco firms, to where they had a distant view of a tenement house next door to a kerosene factory, where, as he vivaciously told them, in the event of a fire, at least one hundred human beings would be slowly done to a turn.

At our kind friend Isabel Casson's at Hull I met my young companion William Rasche.

Baron Bruno, never once sending word, had arrived in the castle after an absence of eight years and had brought with him a companion by the name of Mr. Demetrius.

She wanted to see the messenger again, the man who had called her companion away; but in this it was fox challenging fox.

On April 19, he wrote:'I can apply better to books than I could in some more vigorous parts of my lifeat least than I did; and I have one more reason for readingthat time has, by taking away my companions, left me less opportunity of conversation.'

He chose fifteen companions, all men of powerful arm and dauntless heart.

'And so care I for all,' cried the watcher; and she drew her companion with her to the edge of the abyss, and they sat down upon it low among the rocks to escape the rushing of the wind.

"What shall we do?" "We'll find one of them, at all events," replied his companion; and returning once more to the neighbourhood of the studies, he shouted, "Thurston!"

In any case, he forsook the "Dame," and, by what his biographer calls a "descent in the scale of refinement, for which nothing but the wayward state of his mind can account," sought the companions of his leisure hours among the wearers of the "fazzioli."

Warrior go on last path, all aloneno want companion.

"Were she in the least sincere," she muttered, "Louise might prove a very pleasant companion.

" "Well!" exclaimed my companion.

To be a "little helper," whether he is assisting his companions or the grown-up people about him, grows to seem the highest honor within his reach.

While Ocampo with his beaten troops fell back to wait for reinforcements, Quiroga pursued the retreating victors, harassed their rear, clogged their every movement, and proved so formidable to the enemy, that Aldao, abandoning his companion, made an arrangement with the government of La Rioja, by which he was to be allowed free passage into San Luis, whither Quiroga was ordered to conduct him.

I must never talk of reformation, she told me, having such companions, and taking such delight, as I seemed to take, in their frothy conversation.