So looks one who is watching the sure flight of an arrow, or the happy combinations of an intrigue.

Saying, 'I am no inquisitor, child,' he ventured upon two or three modest inquisitions with regard to her mistress.

The title he had disguised Duchess Susan in, he confessed to rueing as the principal cause of the agitation of his principality.

'She is courted,' he said, 'less like a citadel waving a flag than a hostelry where the demand is for sitting room and a tankard! These be our manners.

Yet, I must own, a Duchess of Dewlap is a provocation, and my exclusive desire to protect the name of my lord stands corrected by the perils environing his lady.
She is other than I supposed her; she is, we will hope, an excellent good creature, but too attractive for most and drawbridge and the customary defences to be neglected.
Chloe met his interrogatory with a ready report of the young duchess's innocence and good nature that pacified Mr.Beamish.
'And you ?' said he.
She smiled for answer.
That smile was not the common smile; it was one of an eager exultingness, producing as he gazed the twitch of an inquisitive reflection of it on his lips.