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I just know that two hours at Cranberry Corners would give me the horrors now. Well, I'm awful glad to have seen you, Mr. Summers. Guess I'll bustle around to the hotel now and get my beauty sleep." She thrust the yellow rose into the bosom of her wonderful, dainty, silken garments, stood up and nodded imperiously at Herr Goldstein. Her three companions and "Bill Summers" attended her to her cab.
He turned a grateful look at me. Then his mother's voice sounded imperiously in our ears. "I think you have said quite enough, Richard," she said, with icy dignity. "Will you kindly telegraph Elizabeth that I shall start for home tomorrow? I certainly shall not stay in a house where I am flouted as I have been this morning."
The odd child waved her chubby hand imperiously to her friend the driver, and cried in her loudest voice, "Away!" The driver touched his hat with comic respect. "All right, miss time's money, aint it?" He cracked his whip, and the cart rolled off noiselessly over the thick close turf of the South Downs.
I was returning his fierce cold gaze with a stupid stare, and remained dumb. 'Yes, Maud, you have. I looked down in silence. 'I know it; but it is right you should answer; have you or have you not? I had to clear my voice twice or thrice. There was a kind of spasm in my throat. 'I am trying to recollect, I said at last. 'Do recollect, he replied imperiously.
She was afraid and rebellious and exasperated. And as she lay there she felt Gaga moving, and heard his faint groaning, and shook with a frenzy that was a thousand times more than irritation at the tangle in which she was placed. Like all young people, she imperiously demanded a fresh start to cut all this mess away, and begin again as though nothing at all had happened.
Meanwhile, the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and finally claimed him imperiously. He dared not tarry longer within their magic circle.
"Might it not be best, my Prince, that we wait here until I prove myself and make my rights secure to my domains? I should be so much the better able then to " The King interrupted him imperiously "Peace! What are thy paltry domains, thy trivial interests, contrasted with matters which concern the weal of a nation and the integrity of a throne?"
Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.
He smiled indulgently. Her voice crooned the words. "Sing!" she said imperiously. He joined in, following her mood with ready ease. There was silence between them when the song was done. She sat with her eyes half closed, looking down at the white hands in her lap. He lifted one of them gently, his eyes on her face. She did not stir or look up. He raised it slowly to his lips.
"Bring some hot water, and go down and tell Mr. Forsyte that I feel perfectly rested. Say that if he's too tired I can go to the dance by myself." The maid looked askance, and June turned on her imperiously. "Go," she said, "bring the hot water at once!"
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