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But at the time of the sheep-shearing the surly ingrate refuses food and drink to the band of David, though the favor is most courteously asked. When the rough answer is brought back, one sees the quick temper of the soldier, in the flashing repartee, and the hand flying to the sword.

Go; make no answer! Obey, ingrate! Disappear, I command you!" At these words he tried to throw himself at my feet. "Go, wretched fellow!" I cried to him; and, at my voice, my lackeys ran up and drove him from the room and from the chateau. Almost always these bad-natured folks have cowardly souls.

He was painting a girl in a flower-garden, and over his shoulder was gazing a shabby, jaunty, decayed-looking person, who was strangely foreign to my eyes, yet irresistibly familiar. "Don't you remember Mr. Lenox?" asked Harry, staring at me. "Have you forgotten the pleasures of your boyhood, miserable ingrate?

Every Frenchman know' that her cousin is a bad rebel and ingrate, who had only honor and rispec' for her, but was so wilful he could not let even the king say, 'You shall marry here, you shall marry there. My frien's," the young man turned to the others, "may I ask you to close roun' in a circle for one moment?

Godfrey came in the mean time with the venerable hermit Peter; and when the sufferer awoke, they addressed him in kind words, which even his impatience respected; but it was not to be calmed till the preacher put on the terrors of religion, remonstrating with him as an ingrate to God, and threatening him with the doom of a sinner.

McElroy smiled at her pretty conceits, her babbling talk, her gambols, and her gifts. "What have you done with Loup, little one?" he asked, one day. "Does he wait on the steps to growl at this usurper purring at your heels?" The little maid grew pearly white and looked away at Rette fearfully, as if at sudden loss, in danger of some betrayal. "Nay," she said, "Loup...is an ingrate.

Percy Parrot chancing to observe "Tinhorn Frank" sliding toward the door with two unopened bottles of champagne protruding from his coat pockets made a low tackle and clasped him about the ankles. As "Tinhorn" lay prone he was shamed in vivid English by the graceful barber while the new plasterer excused himself from his partner long enough to kick the prostrate ingrate in the ribs. Mrs.

"Ingrate!" he managed to articulate, and thereby to gain a smile, ere he was introduced to a cleanly built lieutenant of the Mounted Police, who stood by the fireplace discussing the grub proposition with a dapper little man very much out of place in a white shirt and stiff collar.

Even now that I have entirely severed my connexion with that ingrate, I seem to feel the wounds, like dagger-thrusts, which he dealt me with so callous a hand. But I have done with him done, I tell you! How could I do otherwise than to send him back to the gutter from whence I should never have dragged him?

Use it, and I am ruined! And she turned away as if to veil the force of her emotions. Otto sprang upon the paper, read it, and cried out aloud. 'O, God bless her! he said, 'God bless her. And he kissed the writing. Von Rosen was a singularly good-natured woman, but her part was now beyond her. 'Ingrate! she cried; 'I wrung it from her, I betrayed my trust to get it, and 'tis she you thank!