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"No; it's difficult. If I could go to him with something definite." "Have you spoken to your cousin?" Olga delayed an instant, and answered with an embarrassed abruptness. "She's gone to Paris." Before Piers could recover from his surprise, she had waved to an empty hansom driving past. "Think about it," she added, "and write to me. I must do something.
Her suavity was no match for Rhoda's vigorous abruptness. But the two were very fond of each other, and by this time thought themselves able safely to dispense with the forms at first imposed by their mutual relations. 'If she marry at all, declared Miss Nunn, 'she will marry badly. The family is branded.
"Ah, Gussie," I said, arresting him as he was about to start another lap. "A lovely morning, is it not?" Even if I had not been aware of it already, I could have divined from the abruptness with which he damned the lovely morning that he was not in merry mood. I addressed myself to the task of bringing the roses back to his cheeks. "I've got good news for you, Gussie."
It is of limestone, and rises to the height of about eight hundred or a thousand feet, but is remarkable from the abruptness with which it springs out of the plain, and the fantastic shapes assumed by its crest.
There'll be others." To talk of it thus appeared at last a positive relief to him. "Yes, there'll be others. But you'll see me through." She hesitated. "Do you mean if you give in?" "Oh no. Through my holding out." Maggie waited again, but when she spoke it had an effect of abruptness. "Why SHOULD you hold out forever?"
King is," he repeated. "Now, then, for it," said Jasper, when at last the gleam of Pickering's cigar was steady and bright, "open your budget of news, old fellow," he added, with difficulty restraining his impatience. "It ought not to be any news," declared Pickering, with extreme abruptness, "for I've never tried to conceal it. I love Polly."
Uhl, who very deftly stabbed him high up on the hip for his carelessness; then the chief swung again, and Mr. Uhl was out of the fight. Not so the big coal passer, however. He planted in Terence Reardon's face as pretty a left and right hay-makers both as one could hope to see anywhere outside a prize-ring; whereupon the chief took the count with great abruptness.
Money and place, with an individual authentic strength of personality, gave her voice its accent of finality, her words their abruptness, her manner an unending ease. "Mina said she might be here," Mrs. Grove went on, from an uncomfortable Jacobean chair, "if something or other happened at the studio. But I see she is not, and I am relieved." "Mrs.
I am forgetting my character. I was asked here only as her physician. Good-evening." He gave a little gulp, and hurried away, with an abruptness that touched the father and offended the sapient daughter. However, Mr. Lusignan followed him, and stopped him before he left the house, and thanked him warmly; and to his surprise, begged him to call again in a day or two. "Well, Rosa, what do you say?"
At the same time he was conscious of so vast a sense of disappointment that he was compelled to put his Fate to the test at once. He jerked out the inquiry with breathless abruptness. "Am I going to be your page?" Aymer Aston echoed the words with consternation; then held out his hand to the child. "Didn't my father tell you?" he asked. A kind of nervous exasperation seized on Christopher.
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