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"I do not think he will come." She laughed. I think it was the worst part about the woman, her laugh; it suggested so much cruelty. "I think he will," she said. It angered me into an indiscretion. She was moving away. I stepped in front of her and stopped her. "What makes you think so?" I asked, and my voice, I know, betrayed the anxiety I felt as to her reply. She looked me straight in the face.
"There, then, mother's little dear lamb that mother has hurt and troubled! Mother loves her little man, and he'll get well and make poor mother happy again won't he?" It was some time before the child could be quieted. The peevish little whine almost angered Noel when he saw how it was cutting into Christine's heart.
She did this because she was wroth, although she smiled with her lips and whispered, "An omen, royal Harmachis." For though she was so very much a woman, yet, when she was angered or suffered jealousy, Charmion had a childish way. Having thus fixed the chaplet, she curtsied low before me, and with the softest tone of mockery named me, in the Greek tongue, "Harmachis, King of Love."
"Send him away no, give him over to " "Nothing of the kind," interrupted George Wright, loud-voiced. "Cousin, go on with your dance. I'll take a couple of cowboys. I'll find this this rustler, if there's one here. But I think it's only another bluff of Steele's." This from Wright angered me deeply, and I strode right for the door. "Where are you going?" he demanded. "I've Miss Sampson's orders.
For such occasions many of the penitential psalms which were discussed in a previous chapter were composed. To conciliate angered gods whose temples had been devastated in days of turmoil, atonement and purification rites were observed.
And, moreover, nobody was angered by this venality; it merely gave rise to malicious witticisms; and the fans continued waving in the increasing heat, and the ladies quivered with contentment as the whispered pleasantries took wing and fluttered over their bare shoulders. "Oh! how pleased the Contessina must be!" Pierre resumed.
Gila stared, and her color suddenly began to rise even under the pearly tint of her flesh. Had she possibly made some blunder? This certainly was the voice of a lady. And the girl on the bed had the advantage of absolute self-control. Somehow that angered Gila more than anything else. "Don't you know Paul Courtland?" she demanded, imperiously. "I never heard the name before!"
It angered him to realize how easily it had been accomplished; not so much as a blow struck; no opportunity even for him to cry out an alarm only that dark cabin, and the threatening revolver shoved against his cheek. He wondered where McAdams was; perhaps hunting him even then on the pier; and Sexton, what had he succeeded in discovering out at Fairlawn?
She had already given him occasion to declare himself off, and if thoroughly angered he would no doubt use it. Day by day, and almost hour by hour, he was becoming more sombre and hard, and she was well aware that there was reason for it. It did not suit her to walk about alone with him through the shrubberies. It did not suit her to be seen with his arm round her waist.
The Druid priests were greatly angered and perturbed at what Saint Patrick had done, and they went at once to the King, who was named Laoghaire MacNeill, telling him that the foreign band had desecrated the Druid faith and must be punished with death.
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