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"Oh, as your guest!" "Doesn't it please you, Jed?" "Have I said it didn't please me?" he retorted smoothly. "Your looks say it." He let out a sudden furious oath. "Then my looks don't lie any." Fraser was stepping forward, but with a gesture Arlie held him back. This was her battle, not his. "What have you got to say about it?" she demanded. "You had no right to bring him here. Who is he anyhow?"
The poor fellow is cast for many parts, and he plays with little intermission. One of his characters is the politician. He depicts a furious partisan, and is so lost in his part that while the man Sylvanus speaks the truth and desires it, yet in his character of politician it is not truth or fair play that he wants, but whatever tends to advance and aggrandize his party.
On their way to the farm he told his mother all that he knew of the events which had almost cost Violette and himself their lives. He added that the slime from the mouth of the fairy Furious had left a strange dulness in his head. Agnella now told him how Passerose and herself had found them stretched unconscious upon the border of the stream.
Immediately it was supplemented by a loud furious hissing; a moment later by a whirr and impact. "There are two, and they are fighting," whispered Adan, his eyes bulging. Roldan advanced softly to an aperture between two leaves of a cactus, then lifted his finger to his shoulder and beckoned. Adan turned mechanically in the opposite direction; but curiosity overcame him, and he joined Roldan.
It is not under such conditions that any nation gives its best to strangers. It is not to the affronted soul that the charm of the unfamiliar makes its sweet and powerful appeal. Lord Byron was furious when one of his countrywomen called Chamonix "rural"; yet, after all, the poor creature was giving the scenery what praise she understood.
My terms were ten pfennigs one penny a shot and round my table the fun grew fast and furious. It seemed so absurdly easy to knock the two boxes down at once, but when the billiard experts settled down to the game they found that only about one shot in fifty proved successful.
Why had he chosen so insecure a foothold and made such a furious plunge at the fish? Over-eagerness, no doubt And then the next moment he noticed that her rod was still curved! "We'll get him yet, Mr. Moore!" she called to him, in the most good-humored fashion. "Come out on to the rock, and you'll see the strangest-looking salmon you ever saw in your life."
Crimson with shame, confused and furious, I was wondering how I could interfere, when suddenly the consultation ceased and the gentlemen at once surrounded me.
The sentry, who was standing immediately under the window, now dropped his pike point forward; and as a furious rattling began at the doors on the garden side, Anthony dropped, and came down astride of the man's neck, who crashed to the ground. Then the groom was on him too. "Leave him to me, sir. Mount."
With his own hands he was tearing down that which seemed an inseparable, incorporate part of himself. Anger and contempt were dead. In their place the old love had rekindled and grown brighter before the sight of a courage, dignified and silent, which had held back the tide of furious fanaticism and thwarted his own despair.
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