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Smith's resentment and disappointment at the sight of the treasure his wife had hidden from him were unspeakable. He was not an outwardly passionate man, and he was in mortal fear, not only of the giant who seemed to fill up all his little room, but also of anything that could compromise him with the police.
In the mean time, as he had the promise of a regiment before he quitted England, his friends were continually expecting an occasion of congratulating him on having received the command of one. Still they were disappointed, and on some of them the disappointment seemed to sit heavy.
She preferred that he should think her cold, rather than to send him flying to heights whither she did not wish to follow him. But she was too womanly not to know the secret of not discouraging her friend's love, and of, at once, by gentle words, soothing the dismay and disappointment caused by her indifferent words.
Once he actually rose from the sofa, to take the law in his own hands, but the effort seriously injured his leg, and he threw himself down in pain and disappointment. "My dear father, I am afraid that, in your anxiety to help me, you have hurt your leg again," said I, in a soothing voice. "Sirrah, sirrah," exclaimed he at last, "if you think that this will do, you are very much mistaken.
Perhaps a foolish vanity and self-conceit was at the foundation of his disappointment; but though I did not know him at all, I could not but have a very kindly sympathy for him.
Do you think that satisfaction and dissatisfaction do not travel down from Lord Fingal to the most potato-less Catholic in Ireland, and that the glory or shame of the sect is not felt by many more than these conditions personally and corporeally affect? Do you suppose that the detection of Sir Henry Mildmay, and the disappointment of Mr.
"Most certainly I do. Why not?" "Because I'm pretty well fixed here. The business is making good and so am I. It won't be long before I can pay you back, with interest, as we agreed, without having to marry that poor girl and ... and draw on her money to make good to you." "You want to go back on our agreement?" demanded Kellogg, with a show of disappointment and disgust. "Yes and no.
He had shaken the hand of her husband and kept pain and disappointment out of his face, knowing well that he deceived no one. Thank heaven, there had been no church, no wedding-cake, invitations, congratulations, fal-lals of any kind he could never have stood them. Not even Rosamund who had influenza to put up with! Lying back in the recesses of that old chair, he stared into the fire.
He was born and bred in a country where intelligent discipline is the rule and the lack of it the rare exception among all classes even among the women of the well-to-do classes. The finished apartment was a disappointment to Palmer. Its effects were too quiet, too restrained.
There was a little thick catch of disappointment in his throat, not because he wanted a present, but because he liked Uncle Samuel. Suddenly, from somewhere behind him his uncle said: "Shut your eyes, Jerry. Don't open them until I tell you" then rather crossly, "No, Amy, leave me alone. I know what I'm about, thank you." Jeremy shut his eyes tight.
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