It was not that it was challenging, but that it was so insolently business- like.

It was much in the very way one would look at a new coachman he was about to engage.

I did not know then that she was to go on the voyage, and that her curiosity about the man who was to be a fellow-passenger for half a year was therefore only natural.

Immediately she realized what she was doing, and her lips and eyes smiled as she spoke.
As we moved on to enter the tug's cabin I heard Possum's shivering whimper rising to a screech, and went forward to tell Wada to take the creature in out of the cold.

I found him hovering about my luggage, wedging my dressing-case securely upright by means of my little automatic rifle.