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The faithful fellow gazed beseechingly into his master's face, and modestly entreated him to remember the pain from which he had scarcely recovered; but the Emperor imperiously commanded, "The shoes!" and the servant brought them and cautiously, with grave anxiety, fitted the low-cut violet satin shoes on his feet.
Suddenly Louie, who had been lying full length on her back in the sun, with her hat over her face, apparently asleep, sat bolt upright. 'Tell us what about her, she said imperiously.
She caught her breath there, conscience-stricken, and added hastily and imperiously, "So go on begin at the beginning and sing it all. I'll keep tab and see if you sing forty verses." And she prompted coaxingly: "Come along, boys, and listen to my tale, I'll tell you of my troubles on the old Chisholm trail, Coma ti yi "
Montague interposed, imperiously; "you can go now, but be sure to have my traveling dress ready by nine o'clock in the morning." Mona went out, and forced herself to shut the door after her without making the slightest sound, although every nerve in her body was tingling with indignation and resentment, to which she longed to give some outward expression.
Once outside, her lean black legs carried her swiftly back to Dilama's room, where she pushed aside the curtain without ceremony. "Come!" she said imperiously, "you are Ahmed Ali's chosen one; he has sent for you. Put off that torn veil, and all that weeping. I have new robes here for you."
Then they all had a long altercation on the last day of the year, during which Commodus cursed Marcia and Eclectus and Laetus and vowed he would have them all executed if they mentioned the subject again. He imperiously bade them acquiesce and so silenced them. Then he made Furfur, who pretended to him that he was delighted, remain to drink with him.
He coaxed him to eat, consoled him, and, instead of laughing at his fears, kept between him and the great bloodhound Hardigras, and drove it off when it came too near. "Take that dog away," said Lothaire, imperiously. No one moved to obey him, and the dog, in seeking for scraps, again came towards him. "Take it away," he repeated, and struck it with his foot.
Hannibal, even at the risk of drowning, pressed his horse forward into the waters of the channel to make himself heard on the ship, and ordering them to stop he held up his hand so imperiously that in an instant the oars dropped motionless along the hull. "Who are you? What do you want?" he asked in Greek. Actæon interpreted between the Romans and the Carthaginian chief.
She continued to gaze at him with an irony of expression that sent the hot blood mounting to his head. "Can't you speak?" he demanded. "Then, Benson, why don't you talk?" "Because," replied Jack, "I am waiting for Miss Huston to say to you all, or as little, as she cares to say." "Speak, then!" commanded Millard, turning imperiously to the girl.
Her eyebrows were unmistakably blackened, her lips unmistakably strengthened; and Nelly saw at once that her guest was in a very feverish and irritated condition. 'Are you alone? said Cicely, glancing imperiously round her, when the disrobing was done. 'Bridget is here. 'What are you going to do this afternoon? 'Can't we have a walk, you and I, together? 'Of course we can.
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