Anyhow, it will give you an
inkling of our--mysteries.
I felt the first
inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.
Never, little Miles--no, never--have you given me an
inkling of anything that MAY have happened there.
But no-- I cannot say that I had NEVER foreseen it, for my mind DID get an
inkling of what was coming, through my seeing something very similar to it in a dream.
I do not know why I had an
inkling that it would appeal to Strickland's sense of humour to bring a furious stockbroker over to Paris on a fool's errand to an ill-famed house in a mean street.
When Charles left Ducie Street he had caught the first train home, but had no
inkling of the newest development until late at night.
All this, the blind man accurately marked; and as if his curiosity were strongly awakened, and he had already some
inkling of his mystery, he sat watching him, if the expression may be used, and listening, until it was broad day.
In these days Adam Ladd sometimes went to Temperance on business connected with the proposed branch of the railroad familiarly known as the "York and Yank 'em," and while there he gained an
inkling of Sunnybrook affairs.
As for me, I began to have an
inkling. Ben Gunn's last words came back to my mind.
I had there, put away in a locker, ten thousand francs in gold of whose presence on board, so far as I was aware, not a soul, except Dominic had the slightest
inkling. When I emerged on deck again Dominic had turned about and was peering from under his cowl at the coast.
It may appear singular that we should have been thus on our guard with our own shipmates; but there were some among us who, had they possessed the least
inkling of our project, would, for a paltry hope of reward, have immediately communicated it to the captain.
Of the existence of the lures and gains upon which the bank is founded and maintained he must profess to have not an
inkling. Best of all, he ought to imagine his fellow-gamblers and the rest of the mob which stands trembling over a coin to be equally rich and gentlemanly with himself, and playing solely for recreation and pleasure.