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"Yes, I will do that," said George; and with royal brusqueness he said, "call him here!" "I will send him, Sire for I am going now," and she spoke slowly and sadly. "You are going? No! You are not going until I am quite safe until I have gone on board the steamer." George's tone was deeply earnest, and there was actually a kind of wail in his petition.
She had become aware of a certain brusqueness of speech in her mother, a certain aptitude to say sharp things without thinking whether the sharpness was becoming to the position which she held, and, taking advantage of the example, the girl had already learned that she might gain more than she would lose by controlling her words. "Papa wants me to go to Lady Cantrip," she said.
Nor did a little brusqueness on her part banish the tone and manner which were slight indeed, but unmistakable to her quick intuition. "Could Henry have given him a hint?" she queried; and her brow contracted and her eyes flashed indignantly at the thought.
Temperley had fallen into the dulcet strains of one who feels, not only that he stands as the champion of true wisdom and virtue, but that he is sure of support from the vast majority of his fellows. Miss Du Prel's brusqueness seemed to suit her less admirable rôle. Temperley was tolerant and regretful.
Prochnow was direct and downright almost to brusqueness, seeming to see no need of such graduated preliminaries as even O'Grady found place and reason for. He admired her, and admired her extremely, as she perceived at once; but he offered none of the appropriate deferences that she had received on occasion from obscure young men of less than modest fortune.
Besides, Weber had treated him with great brusqueness, and damned an opera for him, a slight which even good-natured Franz Schubert could not easily forgive. The fifteen operas of Schubert, unknown now except to musicians, contain a wealth of beautiful melody which could easily be spread over a score of ordinary works.
Cheever to give the girl a job. But she had not promised what kind of job it should be. She received Kedzie with such brusqueness that the frightened girl almost fell off the small rim of chair she dared to occupy.
He swung leisurely across to the second uniformed doorkeeper. "Business?" demanded this attendant with a brusqueness due perhaps to his closer proximity to the great man. Blake answered without the flicker of a smile: "I'm a civil engineer, if you want to know." "Your business here?" "None that concerns you," rejoined Blake.
Would you believe me if I told you that here, in Roccaleone, we have an agent of the Count of Aquila one who in the Count's interest is protracting this siege with the pretended aim of driving Gian Maria off." "Gonzaga " she began, more than half guessing the drift of his explanation. But he interrupted her with unusual brusqueness.
"At Lavedan you will be safe, my friend," he assured me; "for, as I have told you, we are under no suspicion. Let me urge you to remain until the King shall have desisted from further persecuting us." And when I protested and spoke of trespassing, he waived the point with a brusqueness that amounted almost to anger.
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