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In the interval which marked the preparation of the meal Carrie found time to study the flat. She had some slight gift of observation and that sense, so rich in every women intuition. She felt the drag of a lean and narrow life. The walls of the rooms were discordantly papered. The floors were covered with matting and the hall laid with a thin rag carpet.
A brazen lie! for the tales of shipwreck sufficiently prove the pitilessness of winds, and however much a verse-weaver may pretend to be in the confidence of Nature, he is after all but the dupe of his own frenetic dreams. One couplet hath most discordantly annoyed my senses 'tis the veriest doggerel: "'The sun with amorous clutch Tears off the emerald girdle of the rose!
I want to say men of honour. Are you?" "Come! None of that," said the officer impatiently. "Let us have that friend of yours." "What do you think I am?" asked Almayer, fiercely. "You are drunk, but not so drunk as not to know what you are doing. Enough of this tomfoolery," said the officer sternly, "or I will have you put under arrest in your own house." "Arrest!" laughed Almayer, discordantly.
In such an employment, to whom you will not give an hour you will give nothing; and you do nothing for him for whom you only do, whilst you are doing something else. To which may be added, that I have, perhaps, some particular obligation to speak only by halves, to speak confusedly and discordantly.
It is at the very moment of the conclusion of that charge, that the quest becomes successful. John Crawford participated in that general advance, in the front rank of the Zouaves, in high health and spirits, and yelling quite as loudly and discordantly as any of his companions.
"I shan't stay here alone," shivered the half-witted boy. Then, before Dick could stop him, he set off at the top of his speed, yelling discordantly as he went. "Poor fool, he might have ridden with me," thought Dick. He was already rushing down to the trail.
The gentleman he addressed, who was talking to Mrs. Bounderby on the sofa, got up, saying in an indolent way, 'Oh really? and dawdled to the hearthrug where Mr. Bounderby stood. 'Now, said Bounderby, 'speak up! After the four days he had passed, this address fell rudely and discordantly on Stephen's ear.
Afterwards a church bell began to clang discordantly, as they all do in Spain. The light was over the dressing-table in the corner, and so shaded that the room was quite dim. Someone had been in my room! I grasped my automatic pistol which I kept under the pillow, and jumping out of bed crossed to the dressing-table where I had put my watch and bank-note-case on taking them from my pocket.
The thousand noises of an empty house greeted her discordantly. A rattling window was answered by a creaking stair, a rafter groaned dismally, and the scurrying feet of mice pattered across a distant floor. Fumbling in her satchel, Miss Evelina drew out a candle and a box of matches.
"Oh, the block! the curd-faced cheat!" cried the marquis. "Will nothing move you?" With his left hand he struck at the boy. Thereupon Master Mervale gasped, and turning with a great sob, ran through the gardens. The marquis laughed discordantly; then he followed, taking big leaps as he ran and flourishing his sword. "Oh, the coward!" he shouted; "Oh, the milk-livered rogue! Oh, you paltry rabbit!"
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