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Look where you throwed them coffee-grounds this morning," and he pointed to the tell-tale evidence beside the house. "Well, that ain't near so bad," said Shorty crustily. "That at least intended to be tidy." "Humph," said Si, with supreme disdainfulness. "It's the difference betwixt sneakin' an' straightout. I throwed mine right out in the street.
Some hinted that for all her disdainfulness and haughty pride she would marry Sir John if he asked her, but that he being as brilliant a beau as she a beauty, he was too fond of his pleasures and his gay town life to give them up even to a goddess who had no fortune.
He was a singularly interesting-looking man, home from India on sick leave, and the maidens, and wives, and widows, of this polyglot assemblage at the Hotel were all inclined to admiration of his physical perfections, and to dissatisfaction at a certain coldness and disdainfulness of themselves, which, to use their mildest form of reproach, was "odd and unmilitary."
Arrogance punished by arrogance, a Christian mother blessed for the unchristian disdainfulness of her son, revenge boasted of and enjoyed, passion arguing in a circle! Filippo himself might have written it. Dante says, "Con piangere e con lutto Spirito maladetto, ti rimani. Via cost
She did not allow herself to be subdued by the blows which he gave her, but she was the weaker and she loved him because he was strong enough to be the stronger. An evil fate had taken his sons from him one after the other. Therefore he wished to call forth in his only daughter the traits of his own blood, his pride, disdainfulness and stiff-neckedness.
By now her words were not only casual but carried a trace of disdainfulness. "No, Ruth," said he. "I want you to have a good time and derive every pleasure that you rightly can. My greatest regret is that I can't take you and share the fun. But it goes without saying that I can't. Only, Charlie Menocal " "Lee, what's got into you to-night? If it were not for Mr.
'Does the indifference of your country or the disdainfulness of dark eyes oppress you? "I turned and beheld a blue domino. My heart thrilled strangely. "'Neither, sweet Mask; but say, is not Silence a token of Fidelity? "'You speak in riddles, said the domino. 'But come they are beginning the waltz. Here is a little hand as yet unoccupied. Will you take it? "'For ever?
The other, great of soul, changed not Countenance stern. In that momentary pause Multnomah did something that showed the cold disdainfulness of his character as nothing else could have done. He had given the death-sign; he had not yet told how or when death was to be inflicted. He gave the sentence now, as if in utter scorn of the battle-cloud that hung quivering, ready to burst.
Once more the dragooners are after me not five minutes away. You must lend me a horse, and at once." "Nay," said a voice in the doorway, "the horse, if lent, is for me!" Joan turn'd, and the two women stood looking at each other; the one with dark wonder, the other with cold disdainfulness and I between them scarce lifting my eyes.
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