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He's such a nice man, mother; he's only going to sleep here to-night, and then he's going on to-morrow to get some more billets ready in the next town he comes to. Couldn't he come to tea this afternoon? Do let me ask him, granny! Mrs. Platt laughed not ill-humouredly. 'You would have us take in any scoundrel, provided he wore a red coat, wouldn't you?
Francis de Sales, whom Leigh Hunt styled "the Gentleman Saint," has said: "It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humouredly, and so spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce." Another Frenchman, Lacordaire, characteristically puts speech first, and silence next. "After speech," he says, "silence is the greatest power in the world."
Her brother was ill-humouredly surveying the signs of occupancy of the debatable ground. "Why, there's a tent there!" she cried. "A big tent, and some one in front! Who is it do you know?" She turned excitedly to Josephine; then she touched Jarvis's shoulder. "I seem to be doing all the exclaiming," she declared. "You people must know about this. Is it is it a surprise?"
But he was tired too. . . . "If you don't care about the O'Ranes, I'll see if I can get some one else some other time," he said. "It wouldn't do for you to dine with me alone." "I believe you're in love with Sonia," she rejoined ill-humouredly. "What nonsense! . . . Good-night, Babs. Thanks so much for coming." On reaching home, he wrote to invite Mrs. Shelley for Monday.
The tree-tops were not gilded by the rays of the rising sun, as usually described, the sunbeams did not creep over the earth and there was no sign of joy in the flight of the sleepy birds. The cold remained just the same now that the sun was up as it had been in the night. The student looked drowsily and ill-humouredly at the curtained windows of a mansion by which the mail cart drove.
"Found 'em?" shouted the boatswain; and his voice taught the hiding pair that the cave went far in beyond them, for the sound went muttering by, and seemed to die away as if far down a long passage. "Not yet, but I think I can hear 'em," replied Ramsden. "You can hear a self-satisfied fool talking," said the boatswain, ill-humouredly. "So can Mr Jones," muttered the man. "Hear you.
'Perhaps not. He thrust his hands into his pockets, and looked down at his boots for an instant. 'So you are discontented with your part? 'It's only natural that I should be. 'I presume you think yourself equal to Juliet, or perhaps Lady Macbeth? 'I could play either a good deal better than most women do. The manager laughed, by no means ill-humouredly.
Had he foreseen the meeting he would certainly have remained in Tralee, and left the job to a subaltern. "Hang it!" he exclaimed, vexed by the recollection, "a fine mess you led me into there, Asgill!" "I did not know him then," Asgill replied lightly. "And, pho! Take my word for it, he's no man to bear malice!" "Malice, begad!" Payton answered, ill-humouredly; "I think it's I "
I reflected indeed that the heat of the admirer was sometimes grosser even than the appetite of the scribe. Corvick at all events wrote me from Paris a little ill-humouredly. Mrs. Erme was pulling round, and I hadn't at all said what Vereker gave him the sense of. The effect of my visit to Bridges was to turn me out for more profundity.
"I'm very sorry," I said, glancing at the old eight-day clock; "but I must go now." "Well, didn't I say, Be off?" cried Bob. "Good-bye, then!" I offered him my hand, but he did not take it. "If you'll walk round by the cliff I'll come part of the way with you," he said ill-humouredly. "Will you?" I cried. "Come along, then."
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