The Hunsdens were of an old stem; and scornful as Yorke (such was my late
interlocutor's name) professed to be of the advantages of birth, in his secret heart he well knew and fully appreciated the distinction his ancient, if not high lineage conferred on him in a mushroom-place like X , concerning whose inhabitants it was proverbially said, that not one in a thousand knew his own grandfather.
"You were nearly dead," said my
interlocutor. "It was a very near thing, indeed.
"The young Cossack made his mighty
interlocutor smile," says Thiers.
Tess hastily explained that he had been called away on business, and, leaving her
interlocutor, clambered over the garden-hedge, and thus made her way to the house.
"The marriage," he said (at which his
interlocutor's face grew dark) "was very much my doing.
"Undoubtedly, undoubtedly," broke in Mr Verloc in a deep deferential bass of an oratorical quality, so utterly different from the tone in which he had spoken before that his
interlocutor remained profoundly surprised.
Best had decidedly the inferiority as an
interlocutor with Mrs.
yes, we know it," said the old man, drawing the bolts; "and here is the proof." And at these words he let in D'Artagnan, who, by the light of the lantern he carried in his hand, recognized his obstinate
interlocutor.
His
interlocutor, whose head appeared through the carriage window, was a woman of from twenty to two-and-twenty years.
Then he shook his head, with his eyes still fixed upon his
interlocutor. "No, Mr.
Colbert, turning round at this moment, saw D'Artagnan who was seeking some
interlocutor, during this "aside" of the king and Monsieur.
I can see Douglas there before the fire, to which he had got up to present his back, looking down at his
interlocutor with his hands in his pockets.