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So if the apple-tree will make too much wood, it can bear no fruit; during summer it is full of haughty thrift, but the autumn, which brings grace to so many a dwarfed bush and low shrub, shows it naked and in shame.
"It is that house we have called the Haughty Hermitage, Gerald," Brenda helped him. "Oh, that! But surely one doesn't live in a house like that!" "Your excellent reason?" inquired Leslie. "I don't know," he hesitated, "but surely one doesn't live in a house like that!" They had to laugh at the expression brought into his face by his sense of a mysterious incongruity.
Yet there was a vein of haughty caprice in her character; a love of solitude, which made her at times wish to retire entirely, and at these times she would expect to be thoroughly understood, and let alone, yet to be welcomed back when she returned. She did not thwart others in their humors, but she never doubted of great indulgence from them.
I meant but to comfort you, as I thought, fool that I was! that is all!" cried the miserable friend. And from that hour Audley gave up the idea of righting himself in his own eyes, and submitted still to be the living lie, he, the haughty gentleman! Now, while Harley was still very weak and suffering, Mr. Dale came to London, and called on Egerton. The curate, in promising secrecy to Mrs.
A mongrel, I suppose, that makes; and yet it is well to have good blood in one's veins, even on the father's side." There was a sneering emphasis in her words, and the snaky black eyes gleamed like daggers on the baronet. But that proud face was set and rigid as stone now. He returned her look with a haughty stare. "It is a pity the whipping-post has been abolished," he said, harshly.
When they came in again they were so shamefaced that they hardly dared to look at Halvor, towards whom they had always been so proud and haughty before. 'Ay, ay! you have always thought that you were so pretty and dainty that no one was equal to you, said Halvor, 'but you should just see the eldest Princess whom I set free.
The day's discontent had darkened her memory as storm clouds darken the sky. But she grasped her necklace imperiously. "'Deck me at once! she cried, in a haughty tone. 'Clothe me more beautifully than mortal maid was ever clad before, so that I may find favour in the prince's sight and become the bride of the castle. I would that I were done for ever with the spindle and the distaff.
"Monsieur," said Garnache, his voice very cold, "do I understand that you no longer intend to carry out your engagement and wed Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye?" A dull flush spread upon the Marquis's face. He rose too, and across the table he confronted his guest, his mien haughty, his eyes imperious.
I have to keep telling myself you are only a woman of flesh and blood like myself else I would be groveling on the floor at your feet, and you would despise me!" Colina stared at him in haughty silence. "I love you!" he whispered with odd abruptness. "No woman need be insulted by hearing that. You came upon me to-day like a bolt of lightning. You have put your mark on me for life!
He spoke with a haughty pride of conscious strength and authority. He was striving to bring Raven to his way of thinking. At length Raven appeared to throw down his ultimatum. "No!" he cried, and his voice rang up clear through the din. "You are fools! You are like little partridges trying to frighten the hunter. The Great White Mother has soldiers like the leaves of the trees.
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