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March 8, 1634 , he writes to his brother, "It is of great importance to me that my affair may be no longer protracted, and that I know speedily whether I can see my Country again, or must relinquish it for ever." A fortnight after he writes to him , "I expect your letters with impatience, to know what I have to hope for from my Countrymen.
The monk from Obdorsk was conspicuous as the most fussy in the excited crowd. He was to be seen everywhere; everywhere he was asking questions, everywhere he was listening, on all sides he was whispering with a peculiar, mysterious air. His expression showed the greatest impatience and even a sort of irritation.
That query I naturally left to Dolores to answer, and at my earnest solicitation she very considerately decided, having in view my intense impatience in the matter, that the paternal assent with blessing -having been given in the month of February, we should be married in April. Yes, absolutely married! The idea took me greatly by surprise at first.
And you, what a falling off, since you came to me from the dealer's, gleaming and polished and smelling so good with your beeswax! Like your master, you have wrinkles, often my work, I admit; for how many times, in my impatience, have I not dug my pen into you, when, after its dip in the muddy inkpot, the nib refused to write decently!
The former led by Young King, Captain Pollard, and others; the latter recognized Red Jacket as its ruling spirit. The opposition he had so long exerted, began to be regarded with impatience. As the Christian party advanced and became more numerous, they were unwilling to submit to the dictation of the orator.
He had all the night a full possession of Sylvia, and found in the morning he was not so violently concerned as he was over night: it was but a repetition of what he had been feasted with before; it was no new treat, but, like matrimony, went dully down: and now he found his heart warm a little more for Calista, with which little impatience he left Sylvia.
She shook her head wearily. "What's the use? You accept things theoretically and then when they happen...." "What things? What has happened!" A sudden impatience mastered her. What did he suppose, after all ? "But you know all about Ellie. We used to talk about her often enough in old times," she said. "Ellie and young Davenant?" "Young Davenant; or the others...." "Or the others.
Gentlemen don't understand anything about city affairs finance. Why! the people who started the cry after me were a firm of gentlemen. The counsel, the judge all gentlemen quite out of it! No notion of . . . And then he's a sailor too. Just a skipper " "My grandfather was nothing else," she interrupted. And he made an angular gesture of impatience. "Yes.
The mystery was profound, for it had never entered the head of any man in the Armada that Alexander could not come out when he chose. And now to impatience succeeded suspicion and indignation; and there were curses upon sluggishness and upon treachery.
They have the scholar's impatience with trivialities. They skate, not to cut their names on the ice, but to get somewhere, and the whole industrial and scientific world knows how quickly they have arrived. Our newspapers make a business of training their readers in that worst of all habits, mental dissipation. The German press is not thus guilty.
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