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If I hadn't looked, I should very probably have divided my quid pretty equally between both of them." "Both! both!" she almost screamed. "Did she go with him, then? was there in truth a young woman?" "You never saw a creature in such a tearing fidget. Her long nose was nearly stuck into my face, and both her hands, all claws extended, seemed ready for my cheeks.
Helene, charmed by her hostess's excessive kindness, did not move; there was nothing of the fidget in her, and she would of her own accord remain seated for hours. However, as the servant announced three ladies in succession Madame Berthier, Madame de Guiraud, and Madame Levasseur she thought she ought to rise. "Oh! pray stop," exclaimed Madame Deberle; "I must show you my son."
To me the dimness was restful, but Dale, who, with the crude instincts of youth, loves glare, began to fidget, and presently asked whether he might turn on the electric light. Permission was given.
Must tink all the time and be worried by dese things. For God's sake you don't fidget. You tink all the suffering was wit you, but it was inside of me where the pain live." "Ha ha!" said Richard. "Discomfort is nutting. I haf before me the prospec' to be beat. It wass the torture to be beat. You know that." "Not yet." "Mus' be taught."
She was firmer now, and quite resolved. "Shall we go in at once and set to work?" she said. "I want to read that bit of Tasso over again before Miss Renshaw comes." "No, no," said Cassandra. "You are always in such a fidget to learn, Ruth. Come into the garden; I want to talk to you." Ruth looked full round at her companion. She saw something in Cassandra's eye which made her slightly shiver.
People may say or look what they like, she will have her way about this sentiment of hers. The poor relation is in a dreadful fidget whenever the little gentleman says anything that interferes with her own infallibility.
There was after all a hint of offence to a man of his age in being taken, as they said at the shops, on approval. Maggie, certainly, would have been as far as Charlotte herself from positively desiring this, and Charlotte, on her side, as far as Maggie from holding him light as a real value. She made him fidget thus, poor girl, but from generous rigour of conscience.
Fingers and no fingers! I never did." "Hush, love, we all do our best." "Oh, I am sure of that; poor things." "Nobody can lace you if you fidget about love," objected Mrs. Dodd. "Now I don't want to hurry any man's cattle: but the bridesmaids are come." "Oh dear, I shall never be ready in time," said Julia; and the tattoo recommenced. "Plenty of time, love," said Mrs.
"Now why did you tell me that I wonder?" said Glory, and Lord Robert began to fidget with his eye-glass. Drake returned with Polly. He proposed that they should take the air in the quadrangle, and they went off for that purpose, the girls arm-in-arm some paces ahead. "There's a dash of Satan himself in that red-headed girl," said Lord Robert. "She understands a man before he understands himself."
He was so little what she might have expected, and so perversely preoccupied that she could explain it only by the high pressure at which he was living, his anxiety about his "exam." He was in a fidget, in a fever, putting on a spurt to come in first; sceptical moreover about his success and cynical about everything else.
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