They almost always turned the conversation upon some local matter or petty grievance.

" While Diggory was holding forth in the big schoolroom on his methods of reading a cipher, a conversation of a very different character, and on a matter of grave importance, was taking place in the study of the school captain.

"Because I wish to be quite certain that no one overhears our conversation.

" The man heard the conversation of the dogs, and went and got a stick.

I was so astonished that I had nothing to say, but was afterward sorry that I had not continued the conversation and asked her why she was so especially proud of never having left Paris.

She began to meet him professionally, for his reputation was steadily increasing, but he made no attempt to resume the conversation which had been so rudely interrupted.

She began the conversation in French(he was announced with all due ceremony as Monsieur le Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres) and W. said she spoke it remarkably well,then, with her beautiful smile which lightened up her whole face: "I think I can speak English with a Cambridge scholar."

In this, I humored her, to the extent of not attempting to lead the conversation in that direction.

Once or twice when she attempted to open the conversation he had replied with crushing monosyllables, and there was an end.

To Mr. Naylor's intense relief, Beaumaroy interrupted this conversation.

" Mrs. Atterbury changed the conversation by asking how Mrs. Davis liked Richmond.

And after we have made all these conquests, what shall we do then?" Pyrrhus laughing answered: "We will take our ease and carouse every day, and enjoy pleasant conversation with one another.

" "Wonderful indeed, Madame la Marechale," and then I repeated our conversation, which she could hardly believe, and which amused her very much.

Uncle John arrived just in time for dinner, in a very genial mood, and he and Patsy kept up a lively conversation at the table while the Major looked stern every time he caught the little man's eye.

His mother, after relating to Djaida the conversation she held with her son, mounted a camel and made her way towards her own country.

With a cheerful smile Holymead brought the conversation to an end and went on his way.

As Flack made no attempt to carry the conversation beyond the state of his health, Inspector Chippenfield came to the conclusion that he was an extremely dull policeman.

Kathy did not hinder her and, to show her gratitude, attempted to start a little conversation.

Mr. Jones ate merely a mouthful, but he evidently endeavored to follow the conversation and take an interest in what was said.

They had a big dinner every Thursday, with a reception afterward, and she looked so tired when she was sitting on the sofa, in the diplomatic salon, making conversation for the foreigners and people of all kinds who came to their receptions, that one felt really sorry for her.

She began to remember a great many conversations as earnest, which had been stopped when she came into the room, and the looks of pity which had been bent upon her.

He says: "I remember about a fortnight before the war broke out with Germany having a conversation with a business man in Manchester, and he said to me that we most certainly ought to join in with the other nations and sweep the Germans off the face of the earth; I asked him why, and his only answer was, 'Look at the figures of Germany's exports; they are almost as high as ours!'

"Here is a fearful admonition for those who set their hearts on riches," observed Sir George Templemore, recalling the conversation of the previous day.

Mr. Jinks does not directly reply to this question, but, reaching up, hands in the bundle, and commences a whispered conversation.

The merchant paid too great a compliment to the rector's dinner to think of renewing the disagreeable conversation, and as John Moseley and the young clergyman were seated next the two ladies, they soon forgot what, among themselves, they would call their father's rudeness, in receiving the attentions of a couple of remarkably agreeable young men.