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Bernard was a good deal amused, and a little nettled. "Women, then," he said, "have rather a fondness for producing a bad impression they like to appear disagreeable?" His companion bent her eyes upon her fan for a moment as she opened and closed it. "They are capable of resigning themselves to it for a purpose." Bernard was moved to extreme merriment. "For what purpose?"
As he neared the house, however, his face did relax into a mirthless smile. There were tracks under the kitchen window. She had hoped to get in that way and had found the window fastened. And all the time there was the door, ready for a confident hand. But the ill chance of it amused him for not much more than the instant of its occurrence. His mind recoiled upon his own miserable state.
"Just think of it all the while he was looking looking a big story straight in the face!" She was off to tell Jack. "One might add, looking two big stories straight in the face, eh, Angelica, my dear?" chuckled Mr. Pyecroft, alias Mr. Preston. One might add, three big stories, shivered Mrs. De Peyster. But she did not add this aloud. The amused smile which Mr.
A tame cat and he's a well-trained one is a handy thing to have about you, especially up here. You need someone to take you to races and gymkhanas and to fill up blanks on your programme at dances, as well as getting your ricksha or dandy for you when they're over." Noreen laughed, amused at the frankness of the statement. "And where is the redoubtable Captain Bain, dear?" "You'll see him soon.
When she came to the warren, the rabbits were out feeding, and she amused herself by throwing stones at them with her left hand.
Sewell, during the progress of this story, examined the Captain with eyes of amused curiosity. His countenance was as fixed and steady, and his whole manner of reciting as matter-of-fact and collected, as if he were relating some of the every-day affairs of his boat-building.
"Yes," he said, "I shall write him a letter, and this very day, too! May I be hung, drawn, and quartered if he doesn't have to read my letter to-morrow morning!" Then there was roast goose for dinner, and Clara amused herself by making silly facetious faces, furtively, dangerously, under her father's very eyes.
"You are very considerate!" said Melville, hardly knowing whether to be amused or provoked by the cool assurance of his visitor. "Oh, not at all!" returned Eben, complacently. "I guess I've fetched him!" he reflected, looking at Mr. Melville through his small, half-closed eyes. "You have certainly surprised me very much, Mr. Graham," said Melville, "by the nature of your suggestion.
"I don't know to what you refer but something of the kind was in my head." It amused him finely and I must say again that his attitude all through was that of a man who could hardly keep from laughing whatever he did, so that I came to think he must be little short of a raving maniac, and that perhaps the Court would find him such.
She seemed too listless to ramble about with the rest of the party, or to take the faintest interest in the conversation of any of the gentlemen who tried to talk to her. She amused herself in a desultory way with a drawing-book and a volume of a novel, and did not appear to consider it incumbent on her to take notice of any one.
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