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"Do you suppose I can work in a barn like this?" the artist said ill-humouredly. "And where should I get models?" Some one banged the door viciously in the storey below. Katya, who was expecting her mother's return from minute to minute, jumped up and ran away. The artist was left alone.

Perhaps it was childish on my part, but I accepted this curt dismissal very ill-humouredly. That Harley, for some reason of his own, wished to be alone, was evident enough, but I resented being excluded from his confidence, even temporarily. It would seem that he had formed a theory in the prosecution of which my cooeperation was not needed.

Those, also, I said to myself ill-humouredly, were probably stage jewels.... I cannot account for the sudden train of associations this word evoked: sweeping, magnificent gestures, star-like eyes, and a goddess' brows shining through innumerable years; a bar or two of melodious ritornello; an ineffable sense of poetry and grandeur, and but I am not sure a note or two of a distant, distant voice.

"Yes, dear man; it is only at such long intervals that I see a person with ingenuousness and enthusiasm, that when I do meet one, I get a real joy from it." "You are a sentimentalist." "That's true; and you have become an inquisitor." "Most certainly. I believe we agree on that and on all the rest." "I think so. All right. Good-bye!" said Alzugaray, ill-humouredly. "Salutations!" replied Caesar.

Bells with sharp voices began again to sound in the air. "Oh, isn't it sad!" said Susanna, lifting her hand to her breast. They watched how the procession moved away, and then Caesar murmured, ill-humouredly: "It is stupid." "What?" asked Susanna. "I say that it's stupid to take pleasure in feeling miserable. What we are doing is absurd and unhealthy."

If you consent, you will gain the knowledge of your wife's whereabouts and the reward I promised which I shall pay now. If you take the money and then spoil my scheme, you will find it has been useless dishonesty. To-morrow, in any case, the facts will be made public." Northway glanced at him ill-humouredly. "You needn't be so anxious about my honesty, Mr. Marks.