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As the gate clicked behind the Viscount and his companions, Lord Rookwood, who was in close converse with the others at the further side of the garden, advanced haughtily, bowing to Sir Francis, whom he perceived represented the interests of the young nobleman. The two, withdrawing from the others, made haste to arrange the preliminaries of the meeting.
What business have you to be going out at night, at the invitation of contemptible small fry, like this little Wildney?" "I beg you won't speak of any friend of mine in those terms," said Eric, drawing up haughtily. "I hope you don't call a bad little boy like Wildney, who'd be no credit to any one, your friend, Eric?" "Yes I do, though.
And at the next town my master, Cul de Jatte, bought me a psaltery, and set himself up again by the roadside in state like him that erst judged Marsyas and Apollo, piping for vain glory. So I played a strain. 'Indifferent well, harmonious Bon Bec, said he haughtily.
They stooped over the sea-shore, dipped their branches in the black water of the marshes and looked haughtily over the land from the tall hills. They all knew one another, for they belonged to one big family and they were proud of it: "We are all oak-trees," they said and drew themselves up. "We own the land and we govern it."
"If you had waited and not attempted to brow-beat me, I would have shown you that that is the very reason I had to bring him." "How do you mean?" "Never mind what I mean. You have insulted my friend, and through him, me. That is enough for one day." She turned from him haughtily and spoke to the Texan. "If you are ready, Mr. Fraser, we'll be going now."
Aaron King listened, amazed. "I don't think I understand," said Mrs. Taine, coldly. "No? That is what Miss Willard proposes to explain," returned the novelist. She turned haughtily toward the woman with the disfigured face. "What can this poor creature say to anything I propose?" Myra Willard answered gently, sadly, "Have you no kindness, no sympathy at all, madam?
"A great battle has been fought at a place they call Heathfield." "Close by Hastings? Close to the landing-place? Harold must have flown thither back from York. What a captain the man is, after all." "Was. He is dead, and all the Godwinssons, and England lost." If Torfrida had feared the effect of her news, her heart was lightened at once as Hereward answered haughtily, "England lost?
"What treason brought him here, then?" she asked haughtily, pointing indignantly at Stovik. The latter smiled deprecatingly, as Sobieska answered, "Part of a Russian plot, Highness, of which, so far as we can ascertain, this gentleman has been the innocent victim. It was by such a plan they sought to lure all the patriots within the boundaries of our land, then to draw their net about us.
When the latter saw that he attracted attention he advanced slowly, even reluctantly, upon the quarter-deck. The meeting between these two gentlemen was embarrassed, though each maintained his self-possession. "Mr. Powis, I believe?" said the officer bowing haughtily "Captain Ducie, if I am not mistaken?" returned the other, lifting his hat steadily, though his face became flushed.
And the brocades and fine furs and costly chains and clasps she wore graced her lofty, round shape exceeding well, and she lorded it so haughtily in them that the worshipful town-council were moved to put forth an order against over much splendor in women's weed.
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