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Why will any Man be so impertinently Officious as to tell me all this is only Fancy and Delusion? Is there any Merit in being the Messenger of ill News? If it is a Dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better Man. Not only natural Self-love, but Reason directs us to promote our own Interest above all Things.
A boy was passing with the evening papers, and I hurried out to get one, rather thoughtlessly, for we have all the papers in the club. "Did he send you to me?" she replied, impertinently taking me for a waiter. "My!" she added, after a second scrutiny, "I b'lieve you're one of them. His missis is a bit better, and I was to tell him as she took all the tapiocar." "How could you tell him?" I asked.
Gray, a bandersnatch, or a buttonhook, or a battering-ram," impertinently suggested the glib undergraduate who had been applying these words to everybody and everything, and who continued to do so until she had found a new catchword as the main substance of her conversation.
Pray don't think I wish to meddle impertinently with your affairs, Captain Alick," said Mr. Tiffany; and he seemed to be somewhat embarrassed about saying what he wished to say. "By no means, sir," I replied, beginning to feel an interest in the conversation; but rather on account of the manner than the matter of what he said.
He came up to his mother, and stood by her, holding her hand, while his eyes sought Molly, not boldly or impertinently, but as if appraising her critically. 'Yes! I'm back again. Bullocks, I find, are not in my line. I only disappointed my father in not being able to appreciate their merits, and, I'm afraid, I didn't care to learn. And the smell was insufferable on such a hot day.
She glanced at him again less impertinently, and suddenly her whole body looked softer and kinder. "You must put up with my face, Robin," she added. "It's no good wishing me to be ugly. It's no use. I can't be." She laughed. Her ill-humour had entirely vanished. "If you were " he said. "If you were !" "What then?" "Do you think no one would stick to you stick to you for yourself?" "Oh, yes."
She would convince him that a woman of her age is more difficult to please than a girl, and is not to be led off her feet by a few impertinently recalled reminiscences, nor to be won by the tardy wag of a finger.
"Saint Michel, you're really rather nice," she observed impertinently. "So few men are as sensible as that. I shall call you the 'Wise Man, I think." "In spite of to-day?" he queried whimsically, with a rueful glance at the debris of mast and canvas huddled on the deck. "Because of to-day," she amended softly. "It's it's very wise to be in love, Michael."
"May your highness's dreams be pleasant ones!" he said. "Thank you," said she, and the curtain dropped impertinently. "That was very cool of him, I must say," she added, as she looked at the wavering door. When she went to sleep, she never knew; she was certain that her eyes were rebellious for a long time and that she wondered how her gray dress would look after she had slept in it all night.
'I do not feel that my very natural liking for the place where I was born and brought up, and which has since been my residence for some years, requires any accounting for. Margaret was vexed. As Fanny had put it, it did seem as if they had been impertinently discussing Mrs. Thornton's feelings; but she also rose up against that lady's manner of showing that she was offended. Mrs.
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