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One of his humble patients followed him, and said, "I wish I had known, sir; you shouldn't have come here to be insulted. Why, no gentleman can ever get justice against a servant girl when HE is sitting. It is notorious, and that makes these hussies so bold. I've seen that jade here with the same story twice afore." Staines reached home more discomposed than he could have himself believed.
The most interesting part of the task that now remained was to make the widow Oakley acquainted with her good fortune, in such a manner as might least disturb her spirits, already but too much discomposed. For this purpose they chose the landlady, who, after having received proper directions how to regulate her conduct, visited her in person that same evening.
"What do you want to stand in with that wicked corpse for, sir? He'll have you, too," he ended, blinking his glazed eyes vacantly. "Mr. Burns," I cried, very much discomposed, "what on earth are you talking about?" He seemed to come to himself, though he was too weak to start. "I don't know," he said languidly. "But don't ask that doctor, sir. You and I are sailors. Don't ask him, sir.
He fancied that his visit had in no kind of way discomposed the magistrate; on the contrary, it was Raskolnikoff who had been caught in a trap, a snare, an ambush of some kind or other. The mine was, perhaps, already charged, and might burst at any moment. Anxious to get straight to the point, Raskolnikoff rose and took up his cap.
Rather crest-fallen, he sneaked home; and consoled himself for having nobody to speak to by reading some amusing 'Conversations on Political Economy. Popanilla was discomposed, but he was not discomfited.
The 1st of January, 1892, he had promised to spend with his mother at Villa de Ravenelles, at Nice. But he went, instead, against his mother's wishes, to Ste.-Marguerite in company with two sisters, society women, one of them said to have been the heroine of Notre Coeur. The next day he arrived, his features discomposed, and in a state of great mental excitement.
Mr Sparkler was so discomposed by the energy of this exclamation, accompanied with a flouncing up from the sofa and a flouncing down again, that a minute or two elapsed before he felt himself equal to saying in explanation: 'I mean, my dear, that everybody knows you are calculated to shine in society. 'Calculated to shine in society, retorted Fanny with great irritability; 'yes, indeed!
It was Saturday too, and the maids were scouring in all directions, waking every echo in the back-premises by the grating of sand-stone on the flags; and they had been a good deal discomposed by the family effort to play at "Wolf" in the passages.
"You don't?" said Mr. Crocker a little discomposed. "Well, maybe I wouldn't, with that mask on you. Which of them are you?" "Chicago Ed.'s my monaker." "I don't remember any Chicago Ed." "Well, you will after dis!" said Mr. Crocker, happily inspired. Ogden was eyeing him with sudden suspicion. "Take that mask off and let's have a look at you." "Nothing doin'."
Elfwyn said no more, but bade me goodbye and returned to the castle; still I saw that he was a little discomposed by the sheriff's words. I don't like that sheriff; he is a cruel and a crafty man; but I daresay his words were only the expression of a passing thought. SUNDAY, November 6th.
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