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For the last two days my whole body has been the same. Isn't it too absurd, in this weather!" "I am not surprised," muttered the Irishman, in a sullen, curt tone, rarely heard from that honeyed personage.
She heard it flushing painfully, and, suddenly, with a curt handshake, took her departure. "Almost rude!" Mrs. Small said to Aunt Hester, when June was gone. The proper construction was put on her reception of the news. She was upset. Something was therefore very wrong. Odd! She and Irene had been such friends!
One of the worst symptoms in the man is his curt refusal to permit anybody else to admire one bright particular star of womanhood. If the girl hears another girl gushing over the young man, she's ready to scratch her eyes out. By Jove! It'll be many a day before you forget your visit to Roxton Park this morning, or yesterday morning, or whenever it was. "I'm mixed.
The wretched recipient of this curt command read the lines carefully. He read them twice, thrice, for his mind no longer functioned clearly. He raised a sick face, finally, and shook his head. "Wouldn't I be a fool?" he queried. "Listen, you " Gray's body was shaking, his words were uneven. "I'm sorry for Bell, but not for you. I'll never forget nor forgive what you did to me.
Needless to say, the Brazilians blew great gaps in them with artillery, which they could only return with spirited but lessening rifle fire. Yet they never broke; and Olivier's curt account ends with a strong tribute of admiration for the mystic valour of these imbeciles. 'Our line then advanced finally, writes Olivier, 'and drove them into the river; we captured General St.
The Lord High Provost of North Kensington, who was a prosperous draper, wrote a curt business note, like a man complaining of a railway company, stating that definite inconvenience had been caused him by the presence of the halberdiers, whom he had to take with him everywhere.
His address was courteous but distant, stiff, and a little pompous; he evidently believed in himself as a great person and only unbent to other greater persons, when he unbent so vastly that he crawled. "What can I do for your Reverence?" he asked, as he seated himself behind the writing-table and pointed to a chair. The words were polite but the tone was curt; it was officialism crystallised.
He reined in his horse, which was fidgety, and at the same moment Dr. Galbraith came out. "Nothing wrong here, I hope?" Lord Dawne inquired. "No," was the curt response, "it is that poor child at the palace. I have been up with her all night." "What is the matter now?" Lord Dawne inquired. "Now it is her brain," the doctor answered; then stepped into his carriage and was driven away.
"I ain't a-goin' to toast it," returned Ellen in a curt tone. "Hot bread an' melted butter's bad for folks, 'specially in the mornin'." Lucy smiled. "It never hurts me," she replied. "Nor me," put in her aunt quickly. "I don't give it a chance to. But whether or no, I don't have it. When you melt butter all up, you use twice as much, an' there ain't no use wastin' food."
At his curt address the man looked up wearily and gravely motioned him toward the elevator. It was noticeable that neither offered to shake hands, despite the closeness of their relations and the further fact that they had not met in better than half a year.
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