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He was dressed in magnificent silks and looked down very haughtily upon the lesser people and the retinue of servants who were gathered about him. On either side of the room stood a row of constables and near them the executioners. The rest of the room was filled with friends of the people on trial and by the rabble from the street.
"Flora," she said, "I notice you are arranging the table for four. Have we company?" "Why, no, ma'am; there's Mr. Guy, yourself, Miss Jessie, and Miss Clyde," was Flora's reply, while Agnes continued haughtily: "Remove Miss Clyde's plate. No one allows their governess to eat with them."
Did I not send again and again, entreating you to cross from Scheldtmouth to the Wash, and send me word that I might come and raise the Fen-men for you, and then we would all go north together?" "I have heard, ere now," said Earl Osbiorn, haughtily, "that Hereward, though he be a valiant Viking, is more fond of giving advice than of taking it." Hereward was about to answer very fiercely.
The leader of the boy choir again did his best to detain her, for what the noon denied the evening would bring, and Gombert aided him with courteous flatteries; but Barbara listened only a short time, then, interrupting both with the exclamation, "I force myself upon no one, not even the highest!" she left the room, holding her head haughtily erect.
She drew away, looking very haughtily at him, but he only nodded. "Why was I not told before that the minister and his wife were coming? Macdonald did not tell me. Your mother did not tell me." "They do not know it yet. They seldom know things till I tell them; and I did not want to be kept at home to build a house till I had got some business of my own done."
The girl looked at him haughtily; then her face softened, as she thought of the mortification that she was inflicting upon the old man before her, and she answered gently, "It is Dr. Brownlee." Once more the Reverend Gabriel hesitated.
'No, nor are you wanted, said Nina haughtily, as she arose; while it was not without some difficulty she withdrew her hand from the sick man's grasp. 'I know, said he falteringly, 'you would not leave me if you had not left hope to keep me company in your absence. Is not that so, Kate? 'Bye-bye, said she softly, and stole away. It was with passionate eagerness Nina set off in search of Kate.
"I'm in no danger, unless a more formidable rival than that silly thing appears," thought she; and she drew up her slender form with a more queenly grace, and bowed somewhat haughtily to Ella, who came up to greet her.
The ship has entered the bay, and a boat containing three Turkish gentlemen is coming from it to the shore: They haughtily step ashore, and pass by, without saluting the crowd, to the pathway that leads up to Cavalla.
You'd have put your hand in the fire to win her. 'By my conscience, I'd have put myself altogether there, if I had won her. 'You understand now, sir, said she haughtily, 'that there's no more between us. 'Thank God for the same! ejaculated he fervently. 'And that no nephew of mine comes courting a daughter of yours? 'For his own sake, he'd better not.