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"How could your father know about Joe, here?" demanded skeptical Lawyer Bluff. "Joe, what was your father's name?" asked Frank, eagerness in his bright eyes. "Joseph Sprague Abercrombie," came the immediate response. "Hurrah! That settles it!" shouted Frank, throwing his hat into the air. His chums could not ever remember having seen him one-half so excited before.
When Faber saw her, he was much disappointed, perceived at once that something had excited her, and strongly suspected that, for all her promises, Mrs. Puckridge had betrayed the means by which he recovered her. He said to himself that he had had no choice, but then neither had the lady, and the thing might be hateful to her.
His temper was excited by the good fortune of his day's negotiation; he felt himself of more importance than usual, as a needy man is apt to do when he has got a large sum at his banker's; moreover, he was exasperated by some personal allusions to himself, which had been delivered by a dignified old lord who dated his family from the ark, and was as rich as Croesus.
"My dear Victoria," said I, "I know all that as well as you do. Didn't we go through it all before, when you married William Adolphus?" "I've just left Elsa," my sister announced. "The child's really half off her head; she can't grasp it yet." "She is excited, I suppose." "It seems that Cousin Elizabeth never let her count upon it." "I saw that she was pleased. It surprised me rather."
Many were not satisfied with viewing us on every side with marks of great astonishment, but came close up to us, and pawed us all over. At taking leave we presented them with a few trifles, which excited among them the greatest pleasure and thankfulness.
This suggestion of physical resistance excited his love of conquest and awoke something like the mood of a lover such a lover as a man like Ed could be. For a moment he felt as if Alaire were some other woman than his wife, a woman who refused and yet half expected to be overcome; therefore he laughed self-consciously and repeated, "Come now, I want a kiss."
Zachariah did his best to overcome his natural indisposition to talk. Except when he was very much excited, he always found conversation with his wife too difficult on any save the most commonplace topics, although he was eloquent enough in company which suited him. She listened to him, recalling with great pleasure the events of the preceding evening.
On entering the room, the general and excited inquiry was, “Which is Stephenson?” The English engineer had not before imagined that he was esteemed to be so great a man.
Night after night he was absent until the latest hours at convivial clubs and card-parties. He formed acquaintance with those with whom Jane could not only have no congeniality of taste, but who must have excited in her emotions of the deepest repugnance.
She sprang up; she had forgotten to get supper. When she took the food upstairs, Preston was dragging himself about the room. He was excited, and anxious to talk. "Did that doctor fix me up? I don't remember seeing him in the hospital." "He operated when you were received. He left the next day," she answered. "It must have been a neat job.
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