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She took the box haughtily and walked with it over to her chair. But he came and kissed her. "Jealous of my mail? You foolish child. What a girl-thing you are! It doesn't matter, does it, how we train you or leave you untrained, you're all alike, you women, under your skins. Open your box and thank me prettily, and leave matters you don't understand alone. That's the way to talk, isn't it?"
Julia herself could not pass Ruth without tossing her head and staring at her haughtily; and sometimes she would whisper to her companions and look at the girl from the Red Mill in so scornful a way that Ruth could not help feeling uncomfortable. Indeed, Ruth would have lacked almost all young company had it not been for Helen Cameron and Tom.
The lawyer even laid his hand on the Angel's shoulder. He should have known better than that. "My dear fellow," he said, benevolently. "You are liable for the whole year's rent until next October. You will see by your lease." Aubrey shook his hand off haughtily. "Provided the lease is signed," he said, quietly. "Will you gentlemen have the goodness to find my signature on this lease?
"I am the commander of a royal cruiser, Sir:" haughtily returned the other. "Queen Anne may be proud of her servant! but we neglect our affairs. A thousand pardons, lovely mistress of la Cour des Fées. This meeting of two rude mariners does a slight to your beauty, and little credit to the fealty due the sex.
"That you recall what you said the other day and restore me to a place in your friendship." There was no mistaking his true meaning. It was a price no self-respecting woman could pay. She rose indignantly, and haughtily she said: "You have never had a place in my friendship, Signor Keralio, and you never will. I see through your motive and I despise you now all the more.
Of course." "If you please," said Mrs. Greeve ominously, so Lansing continued upward; Selwyn descended; Mrs. Greeve waved him into the icy parlour, where he presently found her straightening her "front" with work-worn fingers. "Captain Selwyn, I deemed it my duty to set up in order to inform you of certain special doin's," she said haughtily. "What 'doings'?" he inquired. "Mr. Erroll's, sir.
My brother gifted with strength will come to slay ye! Therefore speed and tarry not! But Bhima haughtily said, 'I do not fear him! If he cometh here, I will slay him! Hearing their converse, that vilest of cannibals came to the spot. Of frightful form and dreadful to behold, uttering loud cries as he came, the Rakshasa said, 'O Hidimva, with whom dost thou converse?
Being in this masterful temper, he haughtily disregarded the growing demand for an advance. On the other hand the politicians, always eager to minister to the gratification of the people, began to be importunate; they harried the President, and went out to camp to prick their civilian spurs into the general himself.
Two warriors who had tarried behind, were captured as the dragoons came dashing into the streets. They were led into the presence of De Soto. Without waiting to be addressed by him, they haughtily assailed him with the question, "What is it you seek in our land? Is it peace, or is it war?" De Soto replied, through his interpreter, "We seek not war with any one.
She would have to dance, out of politeness, until she could find Meg. Very stiffly she walked into the middle; very haughtily she put her hand on his sleeve. But in one minute, in one turn, her feet glided, glided. The lights, the azaleas, the dresses, the pink faces, the velvet chairs, all became one beautiful flying wheel.
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