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Let him stay with Ellicott; he will bring him out all right. There is a brusqueness and a want of refinement among most Northern men that have always grated on me. You can see it any day in Amos Cobb." As he spoke a slight flush overspread his listener's face. The positiveness of his tone, she thought, carried with it a certain uncomplimentary criticism of her suggestion.
"As to HER, I am quite accustomed to her maturer superiority, which, I am afraid, is the effect of my own youth and inexperience; and I believe that, in course of time, your cousin's brusqueness might be as easily understood by me.
Nor could the two who listened sound the depth of the pathos the Colonel put into those two words. But the Judge had not fainted. And the brusqueness in his weakened voice was even more pathetic "Tut, tut," said he. "A little heat, and no breakfast." The Colonel already had a bottle of the famous Bourbon day his hand, and Captain Lige brought a glass of muddy iced water. Mr.
He was not, perhaps, sorry to miss in that handsome woman the show of extreme deference with which it was usual for the nurses to treat the doctors, but her brusqueness a little surprised him. Imagining that she resented the personal note, he turned, after a minute's quiet perusal of her face, to the patient.
It was a fixed idea with him, an immutable principle, that every contractor was a cheat. One day a man who had made a bid that was accepted was presented to him. "What is your name?" he asked, with his accustomed brusqueness. "Vollant, citizen First Consul." "Good name for a contractor." "I spell it with two l's, citizen." "To rob the better, sir," retorted Bonaparte, turning his back on him.
They were resolved that their newly-married state should not appear, and with considerable ceremony it was arranged that he should treat her with off-hand brusqueness when they arrived at their lodging. The Teutonic landlady appeared in the passage with an amiable smile and the hope that they had had a pleasant journey, and became voluble with promises of comfort.
"She can get home alone all right," he whispered. Miss Nugent drew herself up disdainfully; Dr. Murchison, looking scandalized at his brusqueness, hastened to the rescue. "As a medical man," he said, with a considerable appearance of gravity, "I don't think that Mrs. Kybird ought to go home alone." "Think not?" inquired Hardy, grimly. "Certain of it," breathed the doctor.
But Elmira caught her brother by the long, blue coat-tail, and brought him to a stand. "Oh, Jerome," she whispered, "there are so many there, and we are so late, I'm afraid to go in." "What are you afraid of?" demanded Jerome, with a rustic brusqueness which was foreign to him. "Come along." He pulled his coat away and strode on, and Elmira had to follow.
In the brusqueness with which she started she pushed her chair slightly back from him. It was to conceal her agitation that she rose, steadying herself on the back of the chair in which she had been seated. "Conquest saw what I didn't till it was too late." He was on his feet now, facing her, with the chair between them.
Even on this particular morning we have seen with what indulgence he bore the brusqueness of the old bookseller, at whom he gazed for ten minutes without disconcerting him in the least. At length the revolutionist seemed to have finished his epigram, for with a quiet smile he carefully folded the sheet of paper, put it in a wooden box which he locked. Then he turned around.
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