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My father seems a little cross." "Ah! I've been to sleep, and I oughtn't. It's my fault. We'll go in and smooth him down." But the archdeacon wouldn't be smoothed down on that occasion. He would let his son see the difference between a father pleased, and a father displeased, or rather between a father pleasant, and a father unpleasant.
"Try some of this 'ere fowl, Mrs Brown, it's remarkably tender, it is; just suited to the tender lips of dear me, Mrs Brown, how improvin' the mountain hair is to your complexion, if I may wenture to speak of improvin' that w'ich is perfect already." "Get along, Hobbs!" said Mrs Brown, affecting to be displeased.
Then to my brother's, where my wife, by my order, is tonight to stay a night or two while my house is made clean, and thence home, where I am angry to see, instead of the house made in part clean, all the pewter goods and other things are brought up to scouring, which makes the house ten times worse, at which I was very much displeased, but cannot help it.
My Victory Over the Deputy Chief of Police My Departure Chamberi Desarmoises's Daughter M. Morin M * M * At Aix The Young Boarder Lyons Paris This citation, which did not promise to lead to anything agreeable, surprised and displeased me exceedingly. However, I could not avoid it, so I drove to the office of the deputy-superintendent of police.
"My dear Javotte, have you been displeased at all I have compelled you to submit to this evening?" "Not at all; I liked it very much." "Then I hope that you will have no objection to get in the bath with me to-morrow, and to wash me as I have washed you." "Most willingly, but shall I know how to do it well?"
'Why, she was here just before you entered; but she heard something that displeased her yonder, and vanished. Pollux! old Burbo had perhaps caught hold of some girl in the back room. I heard a female's voice crying out; the old dame is as jealous as Juno. 'Ho! excellent! cried Lepidus, laughing. 'Come, Clodius, let us go shares with Jupiter; perhaps he has caught a Leda.
"Doctor I've heard so much of your wonderful cures of your remarkable success in treating mental disorders, that I have ventured to come to you in the hope that you may be able to help me." The doctor smiled, not displeased at the other's flattery. "What is the cause of your trouble, Mr. Brooks?" Duvall observed him thoughtfully for a moment.
"I was once induced," says he, "to show my indignation against the public by discontinuing my efforts to please; and was bravely resolved, like Raleigh, to vex them by burning my manuscripts in a passion. Upon reflection, however, I considered what set or body of people would be displeased at my rashness.
Logical chivalry would be still more radically debasing to us than any other. My brother George told me of his conversation with you at Mr. Lough's, but are you not mistaken in fancying that she blames you, that she is cold with you? I really think you must be. Why, if she is displeased with you she must be unjust, and is she ever unjust? I ask you.
On the contrary, says he, if she has been a loser, I am doubly a sufferer by it. She comes home out of humor, is angry with every body, displeased with all I can do or say, and in reality for no other reason but because she has been throwing away my estate. What charming bed fellows and companions for life are men likely to meet with, that chuse their wives out of such women of vogue and fashion?
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