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"Why, I have such boys I can do nothing with them. Were it not for their misconduct, I might have a very good school." "Were it not for their misconduct? Why, is there any peculiar depravity in them which you could not have foreseen?" "No; I suppose they are pretty much like all other boys," he replies, despairingly; "they are all hair-brained and unmanageable.
She had expected that he would agree to anything, but he actually defied her. "Robert!" she cried despairingly. "I can't be driven and I won't be bullied," he said doggedly. "No man, by holding a revolver to my head, can force me to do anything I don't want to do, nor can any woman either not even you." As he spoke, her face grew a little paler, the lines about her mouth deepened.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg." This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form. "To't again," he cried despairingly.
Vawdrey would fetch someone else, surely." "My dear young lady, he hasn't had time to ride to Lyndhurst yet." "Not yet," cried Vixen despairingly, "not yet! And it has been so long. Papa is getting so cold. The chill will be so bad for him." "Worse for you, miss. I do wish you'd let me take you home." "And leave papa here alone unconscious! How can you be so cruel as to think of such a thing?"
I wonder you didn't go to the length of giving him your own name in full, John Patrick Temple!" "That I did do, my dear; it was my father's name, and I never thought but what it had been all settled between us." This was too much for Juliet's patience, already tried. She stamped her feet, wrung her hands, and cried aloud despairingly.
A bare head followed the upstretched arm; two wild, terror-stricken eyes opened and looked despairingly at the peaceful blue heavens; the white lips moved, but no sound came from them. And then, just as the eyes closed and just as the body began to sink, as slowly as it had arisen, and for the last time, Joel reached it.
Grace was always so ingenious.... Oh, there's the train good-by, darling! Be a good girl!" Joy was aghast. "Grandmother!" she began. "Oh, Grandmother. I have to tell you! ... I oh, John, tell her! I can't go! She turned to Hewitt despairingly. But he had not been listening: he had been watching the argument between Philip and the baggageman.
That's a straight and business-like proposal, isn't it?" "And if I refuse?" said Lydia, with some sternness. "Then you may have the ten thousand pounds to do what you like with," said Cashel, despairingly. "It won't matter what becomes of me. I won't go to the devil for you or any woman if I can help it; and I but where's the good of saying IF you refuse.
It played in the great alley of poplars, whose leaves appear to me yellow, even in the spring-tide, since Maria passed there with the tall candles for the last time. The instrument is the saddest, yes, truly; the piano scintillates, the violin opens the torn soul to the light, but the barrel-organ, in the twilight of remembrance, made me dream despairingly.
While, however, his men were doing this, he was himself revolving in his mind, moodily and despairingly, plans, not for new conflicts, but for the safest and speediest way of making his own personal escape from the dangers around him, back to his home in Susa.
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