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Well, it has happened let it have happened; but let us not repeat it any more. "As you wish," prattled the girl, kissing now his hands, now the cloth of his coat. "If I displease you so, then, of course, let it be as you wish."
Hamilton talked more to his sisters than to me, but his manner was strangely gentle when he addressed me. I was conscious all that evening that he was watching me, and that my reserve did not displease him. Once, when he had been called away on business, and Lady Betty had tripped after him, Gladys said, with a half-sigh, 'How young and well Giles looks to-day! He seems so much happier.
He presented himself the following week at Madame Clarence's, thinking that her house was a bit fast a thing not likely to displease him and when he saw Eveline again he felt he had not been mistaken and that she was an extremely pretty girl. Viscount Clena had the finest motor-car in Europe.
She related what she had heard from Kathleen regarding the sale. "H-m-m!" was Emma's dry response. "They took good care that I shouldn't hear of it." "I'm so sorry Evelyn lent herself to something she knew would displease me," mourned Grace. "Perhaps she didn't.
You may worship them, all right enough, but it is safer to do so at long distance. Suppose you were hooked up for life to a lady champion and you happened to displease her? She'd spank you! Think of being laid face downward firmly across a sinewy knee and beaten forty-love with one of those hard catgut rackets!
On the other hand cruelty and treachery displease from their very nature; nor is it possible ever to reconcile us to these qualities, either in ourselves or others. Thus one hypothesis of morality is an undeniable proof of the foregoing system, and the other at worst agrees with it.
He had become to her almost a stranger. He seemed to her a man like others better than most others good-looking, estimable, and who did not displease her; but he did not preoccupy her. Suddenly he had gone out of her life. She could not remember how he had become mingled with it. The idea of belonging to him shocked her.
The King will receive you in a manner that cannot displease you; and no doubt you will make an allowance for the customs of the country, if some things should not be to your liking." Candide and Cacambo got into the coach, the six sheep flew, and in less than four hours they reached the King's palace situated at the extremity of the capital.
"Yes, yes," said Flora, not by any means wishing to displease her sisters. "If there is such a thing as an excess of generosity, it is sure to be among ourselves. I only know it does not suit me. It will make us all uncomfortable whenever we meet the Andersons or Mr. Wilmot, or any one else, and as to such tenderness to Harvey Anderson, I think it is thrown away."
Young men are often so, in the company of young women, I've observed." Martha laughed so cheerily that her father said to himself: "Well, it doesn't displease her, at any rate." On the other hand, is was possible that she might have failed to see Barton in the light of a wooer, and therefore a further hint would be required.
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