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He didn't like muslin curtains in his bedroom, because they were a nuisance when he wanted to sit up in bed and look out of the window; but the curtains were put there, and everybody else seemed to think them beautiful, so he could not protest. Captain Perez and Captain Eri had taken to "dressing up" for supper, to the extent of putting on neckties and clean collars. Also they shaved every day.

He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type." "I don't know if he will be able to come, Harry. He may have to go to Monte Carlo with his father." "Ah! what a nuisance people's people are! Try and make him come. By the way, Dorian, you ran off very early last night. You left before eleven. What did you do afterwards?

"You are the sweetest thing that ever lived, and I'll love you all my days," he said, getting down and helping Sylvia to the seat beside him. "What a nuisance this fellow behind is!" he continued referring to the groom "for, though he is a Russian, and speaks but little English, it is unpleasant to feel he is there."

Not for weeks at a time. Rather a nuisance." However, it was solved in the event by Nugent being prostrate from the time they left the Tyne. Between his spasms he urged his mother to explain that Lord Nelson was always seasick. But Lancelot was very magnanimous about it.

"It is the deuce of a nuisance certainly," said Stanbury, through the cloud of smoke, thinking now not at all of Mrs. Trevelyan, but of Mrs. Trevelyan's sister. "It makes a man almost feel that he had better not marry at all," said Trevelyan. "I don't see that. Of course there may come troubles. The tiles may fall on your head, you know, as you walk through the streets.

Hugh remarked to himself that she looked even worse by daylight than in the evening; decidedly, she was making herself ill perhaps, he added, the best thing that could happen. For his luncheon he had small appetite. The journey before him was a nuisance, and the meeting at the end of it more disagreeable than anything he had ever undertaken. What a simple matter life would be, but for women!

There was something of the excitement of the discoverer, too, in these new sensations. It seemed to him that he was finding something which had been choked out of his life and which was yet a real and natural part of it. "You will make an awful nuisance of me if you don't mind," he warned her.

He got out of bed and pulled the curtains aside; his room faced down over the river. There was little air, but the sight of that breadth of water flowing by, calm, eternal, soothed him. 'The great thing, he thought 'is not to make myself a nuisance.

"Oh, you needn't look so black at me, Bessie; I know just what a humbug I am as well as you." "I wasn't looking black at you; I am very, very sorry, Tom." "Don't pity me; I shall break right down if you do." "I must go back, Tom," she said; "I can't stay here any longer." "I know it; of course you can't. I'll just wait a minute and then there, go! What a nuisance I am!"

But in order that life should be a story or romance to us, it is necessary that a great part of it, at any rate, should be settled for us without our permission. If we wish life to be a system, this may be a nuisance; but if we wish it to be a drama, it is an essential. It may often happen, no doubt, that a drama may be written by somebody else which we like very little.