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The old man was dreaming of the apparently fair fortune of Amanda; of the ingenuous Claude, and of his father, the importunate and imperious Seigneur, when the clang rung through the mansion, and rudely dispelled his visions.
Then some one sighed deeply and uttered a few words in an imperious tone whose effect was to set some one fanning the fire with more energy, when the cracks in the boarded floor began to show, and the watcher above began to get glimpses of those below him.
I never heard or if I did I have forgotten. Who was he?" Ishmael's face grew crimson. Yet he could not have told, because he did not know, why this question caused his brow to burn as though it had been smitten by a red-hot iron. "Who was your father, I ask you, Ishmael?" persisted the imperious little girl.
I thought you had our orders concerning him. See they are better obeyed in future." And, when the young knight would have spoken, he interrupted him by an imperious gesture, crying out, "Not a word, Sir! not a word! We will hear naught mair frae ye. We hae heard ower meikle already." And he passed on. Thus was Mounchensey's disgrace accomplished by his enemies.
Already violent hands were upon him, when Eliab Hill dashed up the inclined plane which had been made for his convenience, and, whirling himself to the side of Nimbus, said, as he pointed with flaming face and imperious gesture to the hustling and boisterous crowd about the old man, "Stop that!"
She liked to imagine Marius de Tregars and M. Costeclar in presence of each other, the one as imperious and haughty as she had seen him meek and trembling; the other more humble still than he was arrogant with her. "One thing is certain," she repeated to herself; "and that is, I am saved."
Answering to a desire, faint or imperious, that would lead them to put on her harness. Take on her work. Anthony March had never put on a harness. A rebel. And for the price of his rebellion never had heard his music, except in his head. Clear torment they could be, he had told her, those unheard melodies. Somehow she could understand that. There was an unheard music in her.
It was not a dress rehearsal but the too solid Prince wore his hair low on his neck and a golden fillet bound his brows. Silent, he was noble. His walk as he came in at the end of a procession of court ladies and gentlemen was magnificent slow, dejected, imperious, aloof. But Wittenberg had a great deal to answer for, if he had contracted his accent there.
He turned as if to go, but was arrested by Richard's imperious order "Stop!" Mark turned round, frowning and scowling. "You don't belong to my regiment, my lad, but you know that this is not the way to address an officer." "That will do, Mark Frayne," cried Richard, sternly. "It is time we understood one another." "Mark Frayne!" cried the officer, angrily. Then, with a half-laugh, "Oh!
The people, by whose toil the revenues of the kingdom were furnished, looked from a humble distance upon the glittering throng, gliding through the avenues, charioted in splendor, and now and then a deep thinker, struggling against poverty and want, would thus soliloquize: "Why do we thus toil to minister to the useless luxury of these our imperious masters?
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