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Beauvouloir saw within its red silk meshes a quantity of gold, which the count now flung to him contemptuously. "Though you make me out a villain I am not released from the obligation of paying you like a lord. I shall not ask you to be discreet.
His thoughts returned to the automatic operation of the consummation obliterating his person, the inexorable blind movement of the thing in which he had been caught, dragged into the maw of a supreme purpose. It was, of course, the law of mere procreation which he had before contemptuously recognized and dismissed; a law for animals; but he was no longer entirely an animal.
Tell me," he adds contemptuously, "is genius honoured among you?" "Faith, it is honoured, your Reverence," said my grandfather, "but never encouraged." This answer so pleased the Dean that he bade Mr. Carvel dine with him next day at Button's Coffee House, where they drank mulled wine and old sack, for which young Mr. Carvel paid.
You can get tin cups from the commissary, and should have them ready, so that the food will not cool." While I made this statement he stood regarding me with ineffable disdain, and when I was through inquired: "Who are you?" "I am the cook!" "The cook!" he repeated, contemptuously. "I will report your insolence when we reach Washington!"
"Just because Crimtyphon's sports are strange to you, you murder him and you would like to murder me." "Sports! That diabolical cruelty." "Oh, you're sentimental!" said Oceaxe contemptuously. "Why do you need to make such a fuss over that man? Life is life, all the world over, and one form is as good as another. He was only to be made a tree, like a million other trees.
At this furious threat Alfred ground his teeth, and said, "Then I give you my honour that the moment I see my reason the least shaken, I'll kill you: and so save myself from the degradation of being your lover on any terms." "Threaten your own sex with that," said the Archbold contemptuously; "you may kill me whenever you like; and the sooner the better.
He had probably never even noticed one was missing and whatever Thompson had not been wise about he had been wise when he took out a deuce, and not one of the four aces the most casual eye must miss or he would never have let me have them, contemptuously, as one lets a child play with a knife without a blade. Only I was not so sure this particular knife had no blade, for Macartney!
The others laughed, and two or three of them went out of the room, contemptuously remarking to each other in an audible undertone as they went: 'Bloody rot! 'Wonder wot the bloody 'ell 'e thinks 'e is? A sort of schoolmaster? Owen's nervousness increased as he continued: 'Now, they can't live in the air or in the sea. These people are land animals, therefore they must live on the land.
"Yes, I remember; you mean the Count of Monte-Cristo," said Villefort, with emotion. "The Count of Monte-Cristo," repeated the district-attorney, contemptuously, "the adventurer?" "Sir, do not blaspheme!" exclaimed Villefort, passionately; "if Valentine is saved she owes it to that God in the form of man the Count of Monte-Cristo! He alone has the power to change the dead into the living.
And I am sure we should both rather see her married to some one else, and happy, than marry her ourselves and know that she wasn't happy." The construction of the sentence was involved, but its meaning was clear. Charteris flung up his head contemptuously. "You're wrong there," he said. "Speak for yourself. I want to see her married to me, and I'd undertake to make her happy.
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