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Yet no one is glad to owe what he has not so much received from his benefactor, as wrung out of him. Who can be grateful for what has been disdainfully flung to him, or angrily cast at him, or been given him out of weariness, to avoid further trouble? No one need expect any return from those whom he has tired out with delays, or sickened with expectation.
They had been used to merry, jolly girls who joined eagerly in the social life of the place. Alice Reade held herself aloof from it not disdainfully, but as one to whom these things were of small importance.
This sugar, which I had purloined in Flagstaff, and carried all the way across the desert, was somewhat disreputably soiled, and Satan sniffed at it disdainfully. Evidently he had never smelled or tasted sugar. I pressed it into his mouth. He munched it, and then looked me over with some interest. I handed him another lump. He took it and rubbed his nose against me. Satan was mine!
What's the odds, brother, whether it's a lamp-post to-night, or a feather-bed ten year to come, eh? The locksmith glanced at him disdainfully, but returned no other answer. 'For my part, said the hangman, who particularly favoured the lamp-post suggestion, 'I honour your principles. They're mine exactly.
"I'm all right," replied the latter, doggedly, though there was a perceptible quiver in his voice as he spoke. "He has just had another fit of fear," said Siebecker, disdainfully. "I think we would do well to leave him with Peppino and Beppo to keep watch in the garden! It won't be safe to take him with us into the house, Waldmann!" The leader went up to Bouche-de-Miel and gave him a rough shake.
"What are you clamouring for?" said Razumov disdainfully, in the profound silence which fell on the raising of his hand. "Haven't you all understood that I am that man?" Laspara went away brusquely from his side and climbed upon his stool.
To explain her bare head, she had prepared a little speech about running down without a hat because of the fine night, but Partridge was too agitated to notice what she wore. When they stepped inside, the first thing that met Chook's eyes was the hat with the wonderful feathers lying on a chair where Pinkey had disdainfully thrown it.
"I am sure I shall," Joan said; but there was no enthusiasm in her voice, only cold politeness that seemed to chill a little. "I glory in it," she was thinking, "and take not one word of it back." She shrugged her shoulders disdainfully and turned away. "What time will they be coming, Helen?" she asked, for she had made up her mind.
Never have I seen Belinda, or rather Belle-bouche, so lovely, and I here disdainfully repel your ridiculous calumny that she's in love with you, you great lump of presumption and overweening self-conceit!
They had met with no adventures upon the road, except that upon one occasion two tramps had attempted to seize their bundles, but the production of the pistols, and the evident determination of the boys to use them if necessary, made the men abandon their intention and make off, with much bad language and many threats, at which the boys laughed disdainfully.
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