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The impatience manifested during the trial of Halloway was not a result of any desire of systematic persecution, but of a sense of wounded dignity.
Malvina was looking at her daughter, in her eyes was impatience; she was waiting for her to go. "Is it late?" asked she. "Very late," answered Irene, without turning her head. "Does Cara cough to-night?" "I have not heard her cough to-day." Malvina rose, but tottered so much that she was forced to rest her hand on the edge of the table. She seemed greatly wearied. "Go to sleep.
And therefore was he glad to get leave of God to put him in tribulation, and trusted thereby to cause him to murmur and grudge against God with impatience.
"I'm sure you always wish to be nice," she said at last. The words and tone were alike gracious, but he detected in them somewhere a perfunctory note. "Oh nice!" he echoed, in a sudden stress of impatience with the word. "Damn being 'nice'! Anybody can be 'nice. I'm thinking of something ten thousand times bigger than being 'nice."
Signs of impatience appeared on his own side, and, when he ventured on a solemn warning about hampering ministers who alone knew the difficulties of diplomacy and the danger of wounding the susceptibilities of foreign and friendly countries, the silence was broken by a voice that said sneeringly, "The kid-glove Government!" Then he began to lose place with the Chamber.
"You hand over to us, then," it was Jack who spoke, and with his usual impatience when bending to Rose's folly, "all the civic virtues, all the virtues of fraternity?" "With pleasure; they are becoming to nobody, for that matter. But I'm quite sure that men are brothers.
His fancy turned to unusual and vast subjects, and his natural impatience caused him to launch himself upon them with very inadequate preliminary study. Naturally, he found himself unable to cope with the difficulties that promptly arose and was obliged to give it up.
Won't anything, even the best, in Endbury be a come-down for her?" The slightly irritated impatience with which Mrs. Mortimer had listened to the first words of this speech gave way to a shrewd amusement. "You mean that you've put Lydia up on such a high plane to begin with that whichever way she goes will be a step down," she asked.
He had not looked at the Anglo-Indian; he had not changed his attitude; he had spoken with his head still bent, and his eyes fixed upon the ground. Mr. Dunbar had gone back to the window, and had resumed his contemplation of the street; but he turned round with a gesture of angry impatience as Joseph Wilmot finished speaking. "Now, listen to me, Wilmot," he said. "If the firm in St.
"I don't know, Mr. Flack," Francie answered with impatience. "Well I do then. He's a coward too he'll do what his poppa tells him, and the countess and the duchess and his French brothers-in-law from whom he takes lessons: he'll just back down, he'll give you up." "I can't talk with you about that," said Francie. "Why not? why is he such a sacred subject, when we ARE together?
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