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At any rate, it will be your turn then, if you still adhere to your opinions; and I am sure all just persons who hear of your purpose would join their prayers with you." "Your faith is weak, though you believe it strong," answered the other. And he was equally curt when the physician advised him to take a sleeping-draught before retiring.
His hand tremulous with the anger which this curt epistle had excited, Lashmar broke an envelope on the flap of which was printed in red letters the Pont Street address so familiar to him. Mrs.
His temper too appeared to have suffered on the way, and, at Chauvelin's curt and dictatorial replies, he looked as surly as a chained dog. "You were wasting your breath over that woman," he muttered, bringing a large and grimy fist heavily down on the table, "and your measures are not quite so sound as your fondly imagine, Citizen Chauvelin."
If people said that he had been influenced by Lucas's uniform, well, they must say it. They would not say it for more than a few days. After a few days the one interesting fact would be that he had joined. By such simple and curt arguments did he annihilate the once overwhelming reasons against his joining the Army. But he did not trouble to marshal the reasons in favour of his joining the Army.
Her old shrinking from him had worn away. His companionship, though he did not guess it, was to her desirable even dear. The light, firm tread of his small muscular feet, the curt, decided utterance, made welcome music in her ears. She would watch him without his knowledge when they went abroad together.
His shout was heard not only at the little hotel across the street from the station, but at the city limits of Rockvale a good mile away. Rockvale answered the shout as a clan answering the beacozes flare. When Curt Sikes shouted it meant news. His messages along the line had little effect.
Her manner was curt the manner of one who has been disturbed at some engrossing occupation. Max felt rebuffed; he raised his hat and bowed with as close an imitation as he could summon of Blake's ingratiating friendliness. "Madame, you have an appartement to let?" "True, monsieur! An appartement on the fifth floor gas and water." There was pride in the last words, if a grudging pride. "Precisely!
As I set it down again, after having examined it, my heart leaped to see that beneath it there lay a sheet of paper with writing upon it. I raised it, and this was what I read, roughly scrawled in pencil: "Dr. Watson has gone to Coombe Tracey." For a minute I stood there with the paper in my hands thinking out the meaning of this curt message.
"Very well," replied the other, almost sternly, while a look of annoyance passed over his face. "I shall leave her in your charge." "And you?" "I'm not coming," answered Frettlby, quickly, putting on his hat. "I don't care about seeing a man whom I have had at my dinner-table, in the prisoner's dock, much as I sympathise with him. Good-day;" and with a curt nod he took his leave.
His voice was curt; it held mastery. But yet she could not resent it, for behind it was a masked kindness which deprived it of offence. She decided to treat the question lightly. "Perhaps a little of both," she said. "Besides, it seems scarcely worth while to try to get into the swim now when I am leaving so soon." He made an abrupt movement which seemed to denote suppressed impatience.
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