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"Well, the Society has power to take from its numbers, so far as ordinary members are concerned, but it is considered discourteous to reduce the honorary list." "Then why have honorary members?" asked Andrew in a burst of enthusiasm. "It is a necessary precaution. They subscribe largely too. Indeed, the association is now established on a sound commercial basis. We are paying six per cent."
For if you lose your temper, who is the sufferer? Yourself; no one but yourself. If you are guilty of disgraceful acts, of discourteous words, who suffers? Yourself. Remember that; remember that courtesy and good temper are due from you to everyone. What does it matter who the other person be? you should be courteous to him, not because he deserves it, but because you deserve it.
"I rob you of them," he said, "ay, I am discourteous and I rob, but not for myself alone. For your confusion tells me that I hold here between my hands the salvation of England. Child, child!" he cried, in sudden tenderness, "I trusted you to-day, and could you not trust me? I promised you the life of the man you love. I promised you " He broke off, as if in a rivalry of rage and horror.
I shall feel justified in withdrawing from the league if such discourteous treatment is continued. And" glancing at Katherine "I also wish to express my admiration for Miss Minturn for so bravely standing by her colors. She might have shielded herself behind Prof.
"Then I'm afraid I don't see a submarine boat to-night that is, any more than I can see of it now." "That's about the way it looks to me, also," Jack answered, smiling. "Yet, believe me, I hate awfully to seem discourteous about it." "Oh, all right," muttered the stranger, nodding to the two boatmen, who had rowed him out alongside. "Good!" grunted Eph.
"How thoughtless you are, Georgina, asking our cousin into the dining-room just when Ash must be laying the cloth for dinner. He will be sadly put about." "Dear, dear, it quite slipped my memory, Isabella." "You have no head at all, Georgina." "Can I frame an excuse?" said Miss Crewys, piteously, "or will he think it discourteous?"
Oxenham, you cannot gainsay that, unless you will be discourteous to his worship. And for me though it be a weak woman's reason, yet it is a mother's: he is my only child. His elder brother is far away. God only knows whether I shall see him again; and what are all reports of his virtues and his learning to me, compared to that sweet presence which I daily miss? Ah! Mr.
Instead of expressing relief at the discovery that this was not an enemy, he swore at the trouble to which they had so needlessly put themselves, and he was still at his vituperations when Vallancey came up with them, red in the face and very angry, cursing them roundly for the folly of their mad career, and for not having stopped when he bade them. "It was no doubt discourteous," said Mr.
Mutely he beseeched her and Gloria, instantly cheered, vowed to be more careful. But because a discourteous street-car persisted callously in remaining upon its track Gloria ducked down a side-street and thereafter that afternoon was never able to find her way back to the Post Road. The street they finally mistook for it lost its Post-Road aspect when it had gone five miles from Cos Cob.
They were not discourteous to Ned, but they took no interest in his suggestions. For some hours after his departure, his employment on the case was the subject of many sarcastic remarks. However, those in charge had consented to hold the Manhattan subject to his orders, and had promised to give any communications received from him due attention.
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