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In the shock of that startling thought he looked up, and saw to the left, to the right, in front, men sitting far off in chairs and looking at him with wild eyes emissaries of a distracted mankind intruding to spy upon his pain and his humiliation. It was not to be borne. He rose quickly, and the others jumped up, too, on all sides.
The rest of the contents shall be given in Rose's own language. I fear I am using an improper freedom by intruding upon you, yet I cannot trust to any one else to let you know some things which have happened here, with which it seems necessary you should be acquainted. Forgive me, if I am wrong in what I am doing; for, alas! Mr.
When I went back to Harris, I said: "Now you see what a person with talent and address can do." "Excuse me, I see what a person of colossal ignorance and simplicity can do. The idea of your going and intruding on a party of strangers, that way, and talking for half an hour; why I never heard of a man in his right mind doing such a thing before. What did you say to them?" "I never said any harm.
The ruffian Woodley was a very different person, but, except on one occasion, he had not molested our client, and now he visited the house of Carruthers without intruding upon her presence. The man on the bicycle was doubtless a member of those week-end parties at the Hall of which the publican had spoken; but who he was or what he wanted was as obscure as ever.
After working hard all day, he found refreshment for mind and body in an hour or so at night spent with the treasures of his father's library. "Let us buy our entrance to this guild with a long probation," read Roger. "Why should we desecrate noble and beautiful souls by intruding upon them? Why insist upon rash personal relations with your friend?
We must, therefore, either believe that the court of Rome is not in earnest, and that this apparatus of universal jurisdiction is but a shadow, an assumption which is contrary to all experience, or we must understand that the spies and familiars of the Inquisition are listening at our doors, and intruding themselves on our hearths.
The large matters of the mind and soul were not for this unwilling vigil; and at this intruding thought of the soul he smiled, remembering how glibly he had bartered the integrity of his own to add his fragment to the rising temple of Tira's faith. He had strengthened her at the expense of his own bitter certainties.
I have sat in companies and put on an affected mirth, and laughed and sung with the most buoyant of all around, and yet ever and anon I chilled at the intruding notion of life's brevity. Thus my leaving town Inneraora its frozen hearths, its smokeless vents, its desecrated doorways, and the few of my friends who were back to it was a stupendous grief.
That laugh seemed to madden MacNutt, as he made a second ineffectual effort to break into that tense and rapid cross-fire of talk. "And you don't want to lay a charge?" the policeman demanded, as he angrily elbowed back the ever intruding circle. "Let 'em go!" said Durkin, backing toward his cab. "But what's the papers, and what t'ell does she want with 'em?" interrogated the officer.
To David each day was a new day, and might hold Dick. To Elizabeth, after a time, each day was but one more of separation. Doctor Reynolds had become a fixture in the old house, but he was not like Dick. He was a heavy, silent young man, shy of intruding into the family life and already engrossed in a budding affair with the Rossiter girl.
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