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He trembled at the thought of Arthur meeting this strange, wild, exasperated scatterling perhaps on the morrow in the very height of his passions. And yet, after the scene between Arthur and himself, he saw cause to fear that he might not be able to exercise a sufficient authority over his son, however naturally facile and obedient, to prevent his return to the house of death.
Harpe had finished, the man went outside and leaned against the wheel. "Are you sure it'll be straight?" She saw her own misgivings reflected in his face, and it exasperated her. "What a fool question. Do you think I don't know my business?" He did not answer, and she turned away. "Daddy?" "Yes, Rosie." He was at her side at once. She lifted her clear eyes to his face. "I don't like that woman."
'Lord bless us, I should think I did, I should think I did! cried Affery, exasperated into a new wringing of hands by the inquiry. 'Where about here? 'Where! cried Affery, goaded into another inspection of the keyhole. 'Where but here in this house?
The two remained silent for some minutes, Gryphus on the offensive, and Van Baerle on the defensive. Then, as the situation might be prolonged to an indefinite length, Cornelius, anxious to know something more of the causes which had so fiercely exasperated his jailer, spoke first by putting the question, "Well, what do you want, after all?"
There is no pleasure in attacking a man who never notices the blows dealt him. The most violent of his enemies were reduced to a feeling of respect for him, which exasperated them, for they still detested him. "We believe," said Bismarck, almost regretfully, "that nothing is more involuntary than love. Respect is even more so...."
The speech of the Cure, who had given guarantee for the good behaviour of his people to the Government, had been so tinged with sorrowful appeal, had recalled to them so acutely the foolish demonstration which had ended in the death of Valmond; that the people had turned from the exasperated Seigneur with the fire of monomania in his eyes, and had left him alone in the hall, passionately protesting that the souls of Frenchmen were not in them.
In this exasperated state of feeling, several of the soldiers wrote back to their friends, informing them of their deplorable condition, and complaining of the cold-blooded manner in which they were to be sacrificed to the obstinate cupidity of their leaders.
Why, it would make a coward violent, to see his mother tormented as you are by this fellow, and not be allowed to put a stop to it. I suspect " "Henry," said the widow, again interrupting her exasperated son, "do you think your mother would do what is wrong?"
They then had an unobstructed plain before them, over which their horses could gallop in any direction at their utmost speed. Impetuously they fell upon the band collected there, who wielded only the impotent weapons of arrows, javelins and war clubs. The Spaniards, exasperated by the death of their comrades, and by their own wounds, took desperate vengeance. No quarter was shown.
I have to go to thank her for my handkerchief that she sent back. Do you want me to no!" with a sudden turn back to his desk. "Do I want you to what?" "Nothing." "Don't be an idiot!" exclaimed the lawyer, exasperated by his own indecision concerning this affair so foreign to his experience. "No, it's none of my business," said Dunham. "Do I want you to ask Miss Lacey if she'll go up to the farm?
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