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Pixley does not know you are here, of course?" "Not much, or he'd have been over by special boat long since," said Miss Penny. "We managed it splendidly." "And how long?" began Graeme, in pursuance of his train of thought, but stopped short at sound of the words, since they bore distant resemblance to a curiosity which seemed to himself impertinent. But Miss Penny knew no such compunctions.
Always bring on your cause in the winter months. I do, if I can; for it's positive suffocation in the dog-days!" "I really never was at law," replied Newton, laughing; "but if ever I have the misfortune, I shall recollect your advice." "Never was at law! I was going to say, what the devil brings you here? but that would have been an impertinent question.
But with his lips within an inch of her sweet, impertinent face, and the scent of her hair in his brain, and the wound that she had opened again sapping his blood, he held her to his heart and charged the crowd to the beat of the music, like a man intoxicated, like a man heedless of his surroundings. He didn't give a curse who overheard what he said, or saw the look in his eyes.
But perhaps it may not be an unpardonable digression, nor wholly impertinent to our present design, if we reflect here upon the different state of the mind in thinking, which those instances of attention, reverie, and dreaming, &c., before mentioned, naturally enough suggest.
So Granny Stubbs has given you the slip, has she? How impertinent of her! Aren't you very angry?" Max shrugged his shoulders with a glance at Olga's tight lips. "I never expend my emotions in vain," he said. "It's a waste of time as well as energy, and I have other purposes for both." "Then you are never angry?" enquired Violet. "Never, unless I can punish the offender," smiled Max.
L.C.J. Go on, go on, in God's name: but give us nothing that is impertinent. Att. Indeed, my lord, I will keep to my matter. L.C.J. Ay, I remember it in my own country, in Shropshire. What ails you, man? staring like a player that sees a ghost! Pris. My lord, I was amazed at hearing such trivial, foolish things as they bring against me.
He laid the letter aside, said nothing, and waited, inwardly angry and contemptuous. After a while he began to flatter himself with the hope that perhaps it was but a sort of impertinent valentine, the writer of which was unknown to Ginevra. From the moment of its arrival, however, he kept a stricter watch upon her, and that night prevented her from going to Mrs. Sclater's.
Much the greater number said, I don't know you, sir, and nothing more. Some called him an impertinent fellow; some made him no answer at all; some said, Indeed I don't know your voice, and I shall have nothing to say to you; and many gave him as kind answers as he could wish, but not in the voice he desired to hear.
"What I have done more than you?" said Rodin to Father d'Aigrigny, giving way to his impertinent habit of interrupting people; "what I have done better than you? what step I have taken in the Rennepont affair, since I received it from you in a desperate condition? Is that what you wish to know?" "Precisely," said Father d'Aigrigny, dryly.
Nor are they too dim, Miss Jean, in spite of the impertinent toss of your head, to see in you the likeness of the maid that led me such a wild dance in the days of my youth. And I promise you, if you do not smile on young Dick Ringgold and stop your outrageous treatment of him, I will not leave you a cent in my will. There, there; I retract every word that I said.
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