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I know yes, I heard of it. And you really think anything is going to come out of finicking little schemes of that sort?" His dry change of tone drew a quick look from her. The fresh-coloured face was transformed. In place of easy mirth and mischief, she read an acute and half contemptuous attention. "I don't know what you mean," she said slowly, after a pause. "Or rather I do know quite well.
I explained my case, and whilst I did so he read something which lay on the table before him. When I had done he said, with his finicking lisp, 'Seven days' cells, hard labour. The old regimental sergeant happened to be there, and for an instant arrested judgment. 'I beg your pardon, sir, the man is really unfit to perform hard labour.
"Mais au contraire!" lisped Volochine, as he waved his hand in a finicking fashion and gazed ardently at Lida. "Come! come! no pretty speeches!" said Lida, coquettishly, while to Sarudine her whole being seemed to say: "You think that I am wretched, don't you? and utterly crushed? But I am nothing of the kind, my friend. Look at me!"
I rang up the steward and ordered tea, with scones, and jam in its native pots none of your finicking shallow glass dishes; and, when properly streaked with jam, and blown out with tea, I went through the armoury, clicked the rifles and revolvers, tested the edges of the cutlasses with my thumb, and filled the cartridge-belts chock-full.
What had happened to Robert's silent and finicking friend? 'I know nothing of Oxford, she said a little primly, in answer to his question. 'I never was there but I never was anywhere, I have seen nothing, she added hastily, and, as Langham thought, bitterly. 'Except London, and the great world, and Madame Desforêts! he answered, laughing. 'Is that so little?
"I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions." "I think it describes the smell of grilled bone." "Not at all. It describes a sensation in your little nose associated with certain finicking notions which are the classics of Mrs. Lemon's school.
He had been finicking over his coloured shirts, handkerchiefs, and socks; a set of mauve, a set of blue, a set of grey; the brown set with the striped shirt; they were all awf'ly smart. Marie was so dainty, she liked a man to be smart, too. All he wanted was to please her. Rokeby came early, as quiet and lacklustre as ever.
You will not see him often, because he is going to be married, I am sorry to say, and to be married beneath him oh, it is dreadful! to some tradesman's girl, my dear." "Dreadful!" said Iris with a queer look in her eyes. "Well, cousin, I don't want to see much of him. He's a good-looking chap, too, though rather too finicking for my taste.
As a rule, Clara's son and elder daughter annoyed him. Mortimer Hyslop was a calculating prig; Grace was finicking and bound by ridiculous rules. She was pale and inanimate; there was no blood in her. But Cartwright was fond of the younger girl. Barbara was frankly flesh and blood; he liked her flashes of temper and her pluck. When the canoe came to the landing he got up.
Finicking visitors to Elgin found this wearing, but to John Murchison it was the music that honours the conqueror of circumstances. The ground floor was given up to the small wares of the business, chiefly imported; two or three young men, steady and knowledgeable-looking, moved about in their shirt sleeves among shelves and packing-cases.
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