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She looked up from her work long enough to challenge me with a shrewd, impertinent look of inquiry, demanded to know if I had any lead-pencils about my person, and, receiving a polite negative, allowed me to pass. I was not the first arrival.
Was it not impertinent, nay, almost indecent, that the woman should come to her and interrogate her on such a subject? The inmost, most secret feelings of her heart had been ruthlessly inquired into and probed by a menial servant, who had asked questions of her, and made suggestions to her, as though her part in the affair had been of no consequence.
Honeychurch had affected the cube, because it gave him the most accommodation for his money, and the only addition made by his widow had been a small turret, shaped like a rhinoceros' horn, where she could sit in wet weather and watch the carts going up and down the road. So impertinent and yet the house "did," for it was the home of people who loved their surroundings honestly.
"What! you did not see M. de Saint-Aignan? Don't you know him?" "No." "Come, come, do not affect a virtue more extravagantly excessive than our vanity! you have eyes, I suppose?" "Excellent." "Then you must have seen all those who danced this evening." "Yes, nearly all." "That is a very impertinent 'nearly all' for somebody." "You must take it for what it is worth."
"Van der Kemp," said the former, after a pause, "I I trust you won't think me actuated by impertinent curiosity if I venture to ask you about the photograph that I think you "
Betty grasped her elbow with one hand, and putting the first finger of the other hand along the side of her little nose, whispered: "What's the matter with Mrs. Burke?" Jonathan deliberately pulled a hair from his small remaining crop and cut it with the scythe, as if he had not heard Betty's impertinent suggestion. But finally he replied: "There's nothin' the matter with Mrs.
"How, sir," replied Zobeide, who would not believe one word Mesrour said, "do you think that I regard that impertinent fellow of a slave, who knows not what he says? I am not blind or mad. With these eyes I saw Nouzhatoul-aouadat in the greatest affliction; I spoke to her myself, and she told me that her husband was dead."
Some of this useful talent our hero had, however, acquired during his military service, and on this gross provocation it began seriously to arise. 'Look ye, sir; I came here for my own accommodation, and not to answer impertinent questions. Either say you can, or cannot, get me what I want; I shall pursue my course in either case. Mr.
That he should dare to ask her to tell, before that multitude assembled there, what woman usually whispers with blushes and tears, and many hesitations, to one ear alone? So, for an instant, a look of indignation contracted Mary's brow, as she steadily met the eyes of the impertinent counsellor.
One of them was lately impertinent to a countryman, who thrashed him. His Royal Highness sent angrily to know the cause. The fellow replied, "he thought to have pleased his Highness in beating one of them, who had tried to kill his father and had wounded his brother." This was not easy to answer. I delight in Prince Craon's exact intelligence!
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