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"Are we doing anything to-night, Lil?" asked Marjorie, leaning back contentedly against the cushions on the window seat. "Not that I think we need to " she hastened to add, lest her hostess might attribute her remark to impoliteness. "Yes, we're going to the theater," replied Lily, laughingly. "It's a musical comedy. I hope you will like it." "I'm sure I will.
Darling Star!" she exclaimed, jumping up and hugging him. "There, Topaz, what do you think of that?" she asked triumphantly. For answer the golden dog yawned profoundly, and Mr. Evringham and Jewel laughed together. "Such impoliteness!" cried the child. "You must excuse him if he is a little conceited," said the broker. "He knows Star can't sit up and roll over and jump sticks." "Oh, grandpa."
"You think so?" rejoined Anna Pavlovna in order to say something and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now committed a reverse act of impoliteness. First he had left a lady before she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to another who wished to get away.
The first place we went to see wuz St. Stephen's Church. This is on a street much narrower than the Ring Strasse. The sidewalks wuz very narrer here, so when you met folks you had to squeeze up pretty nigh the curbstun or step out into the carriage way; but no matter how close the quarters wuz you would meet with no rough talk or impoliteness.
After your brother left you, you leaned your head against the pillar, and then, as if the grooving hurt your face, you put your hand between; and then I must apologize for my apparent impoliteness, but I promised to tell the truth;" and he smiled a little "then you seemed to fall fast asleep. A mosquito lit on your nose, and woke you.
"In these crowded places, Madame," said he, in his fluent French, "one is scarcely responsible for an impoliteness. I beg ten thousand pardons, however. I hope I have not hurt you?" "Ma foi! no, M'sieur. It would take more than that to hurt me!" "Nor injured your dress, I trust, Madame?" "Ah, par exemple! do I wear muslins or gauzes that they should not bear touching?
I asked, as we turned back. "Why won't you trust me to settle it?" Another laugh, more full of pathos, was my answer; nor would she speak again because of some mischief in her mind, I believed until, preparing the ambrosial corncakes, she rather abruptly exclaimed: "I wonder if you deserve any breakfast this morning?" "Why?" I cried, in feigned alarm. "Because of your impoliteness."
If Peter had stared before he doubly stared now, eyes and mouth wide open. Grandfather Frog was looking his very best in his handsome green coat and white-and-yellow waistcoat. But Peter had hardly noticed these at all. "Why, you're all mouth!" he exclaimed, and then looked very much ashamed of his impoliteness. Grandfather Frog's great goggly eyes twinkled.
Louvois was a brute and an insolent person; but he served the King faithfully, and much better than any other person. He did not, however, forget his own interest, and played his cards very well. He was horribly depraved, and by his impoliteness and the grossness of his replies made himself universally hated. He might, perhaps, believe in the Devil; but he did not believe in God.
My self-esteem was so wounded by this, and by his impoliteness in not answering my letter, with which he could certainly find no fault, whatever his criticism of my translation might be, that I became the sworn enemy of the great Voltaire. I have censured him in all the works I have published, thinking that in wronging him I was avenging myself, to such an extent did passion blind me.
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