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His letter, at Fawns a letter of several pages and intended lucidly, unreservedly, in fact all but triumphantly, to inform had proved, on his sitting down to it, and a little to his surprise, not quite so simple a document to frame as even his due consciousness of its weight of meaning had allowed him to assume: this doubtless, however, only for reasons naturally latent in the very wealth of that consciousness, which contributed to his message something of their own quality of impatience.
It was important that they should have not a moment either to send their craft darting out upon the waters of Lake Erie, or to plunge it beneath the waves where we would have been entrapped with it. In all my career I have never felt such impatience. It seemed to me that the two men must have been detained in the woods. Something had barred their return.
"I think it is touch and go with him but if he wears the night out he may pull through. It was very good of you to come." Alice Deringham made a little gesture of impatience. "But there is hope?" she said, and her voice was very low and strained. Seaforth glanced round sharply as the woman, knocking over something, went out of the room. "A little, I believe, if he could sleep," he said huskily.
It was quite true that ever since his eye had fallen upon another of his own sex, its glance had been less frank and careless. Certain traits of possible impatience, which might develop into man-slaying, were coming to the fore.
He had listened with exasperated impatience to kind Lady Mildmay's pleadings with him, to her motherly insisting on perfect rest for his mind, and to her pathetically hopeful picture of the new interests and the new pleasure he would find in days of rest and peace, with his wife tenderly looking after him.
But you must give me your word that no one but Clyde shall see the notes you make." Wyant was growing warm. "If you won't trust me with a photograph I wonder you trust me not to show my notes!" he exclaimed. The doctor looked at him with a malicious smile. "Humph!" he said; "would they be of much use to anybody?" Wyant saw that he was losing ground and controlled his impatience.
You can't say that there was ever a time when I grudged you a pretty frock or a dance " She stopped in her long speech, yielding to Beatrice's irrepressible gesture of impatience. "You needn't have gone into so much explanation," the girl said, fastening a small diamond pendant round her white neck. "I know you and I know myself.
He lighted his lamp, and tried to read book after book; but, of course, he was too agitated to fix his attention on them. He got all Grace's letters, and read them; and it was only by a stern effort he kept still at all. The night wore on, and heart-sickness was beginning to succeed to feverish impatience, when there was a loud knock at the door.
Mazin agreed to the propriety of his mother's advice, and promised to be wary. They ate their usual cheerful meal, and retired to rest; but the young man could sleep but little, and he longed with impatience for the morning that was to put him into possession of the art of transmuting metals into gold.
"And yet, sire, I shall require you, if you please, to go out presently and divert your impatience by a good walk." "With you agreed; we will talk about your projects, we will talk of her." "Nay, sire; I remain here." "Whom shall I go out with, then?" "With the queen and all the ladies of the court." "Nothing shall induce me to do that, Saint-Aignan." "And yet, sire, you must."
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