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But knowing it well, it rather alters the case, doesn't it? You see," his mouth twisted a little in the old cynical curve, "we can't hand her about and barter for her like a bale of goods. She's a woman; and whether we like it or not in these things the woman must have the casting vote." "It's so beastly unfair!" Noel broke in hotly, boyishly.
If ghosts did flit behind those crumbling walls, surely they were very sad and woeful ghosts. "Damn this rain!" murmured K. gently. "And the wind!" said F., pulling up his collar. "Listen to it! It's going to play the very deuce with these broken roofs and things if it blows hard. Going to be a beastly night, and a forty-mile drive in front of us. Listen to that wind! Come on let's get away!"
Do they murder each other by it, or with it?" Madden grinned with fagged appreciation, thinking the remark meant for humor, but Caradoc grimly chewed his blond mustache. It was noon, three days later when Caradoc's endurance broke down. "Greer!" he snapped with all his pent-up irritation in his voice, "will you never stop mouthing that beastly tune?"
"That's cheating," said Dicky "downright beastly, mean, low cheating." "I'm not," said H.O.; "and you're another." Then he began to cry too. I do not know how the others felt, but I understand from Oswald that he felt that now the honour of the house of Bastable had been stamped on in the dust, and it didn't matter what happened.
Beastly thing, shell shock. Seems to affect the nerves. They would not understand. They will never understand. What is the use of standing in veritable daylight, and telling the living, who have never been dead, of the other place? I know now how Rip Van Winkle felt about it. But his was a minor trouble. All he lost was some years. He had not changed, except that his beard was longer.
Why, they haven't any teeth! There are no bones in them at all; I'm sure you could eat them quite well." "Pah! Beastly!" Pelle spat on the ground. "I shouldn't be at all afraid of biting one; would you?" Rud lifted a little mouse up toward his mouth. "Afraid? Of course I'm not afraid but " Pelle hesitated. "No, you're afraid, because you're a blue-bag!"
It instinctively rejects, on the contrary, whatever shall call up the image of our race upon its lowest terms, as the partner of beasts, beastly itself, dwelling pell-mell and hugger-mugger, hairy man with hairy woman, in the caves of old.
Their eyes were haggard and grim; and notwithstanding the beastly lust that disfigured them, and the meanness of their faces, and the cruelty, notwithstanding the stupidness which was worst of all, the anguish of those fixed eyes made all that crowd terrible and pathetic. Philip loathed them, and yet his heart ached with the infinite pity which filled him.
He had brought me by force out here on this beastly little planet whose orbit was like that of a snake with the Saint Vitus' dance! He had taken me to this wretched planet which lay at such a remote end of the Universe that not even explorers had been tempted to visit it! "Oh, damn the whole business!" I groaned aloud. I was thoroughly angry and bitter.
"But," he continued, with his forced laugh, which to Randolph's fancy masked a certain threatening significance, "I say, it would have been a beastly business, don't you know, if you HAD been called upon to produce it again ha, ha! eh?" Returning to the dining room, Randolph found Miss Avondale alone on a corner of the sofa.
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