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"Don't be a headstrong idiot," muttered the Count, with a certain heat of annoyance making itself felt in his patronizing tone. "Miss Vanrenen will come out at any minute " Medenham glanced at the clock by the side of the speed indicator. "Miss Vanrenen is due now unless she is being purposely detained by Mrs. Devar," he commented dryly.
"If it hadn't been this one, I don't believe it would have been anyone. Here we are," and he tied his horses before the office of the justice. Mr. Harkins greeted Holcroft with a sort of patronizing cordiality, and was good enough to remember that they had been at the little country schoolhouse together.
"I sometimes read detective stories and wonder if they're like the real thing. When you were out of the room I was thinking if we'd had a girl hidden in here behind the curtains, for instance we might have sneaked her away when you were upstairs or down in the basement." They laughed again, patronizing the amateur.
"Wasn't he, Georgy?" "Yes," said Georgy. He and the little chap on the pony were looking at each other with all their might solemnly scanning each other as children do. "In a line regiment," Clink said with a patronizing air. "He was a Captain in the th regiment," said the old gentleman rather pompously. "Captain George Osborne, sir perhaps you knew him.
Tom was somewhat inclined to resent the patronizing air of his new friend, a boy of just about his own height and age, but gifted with the most transcendent coolness and assurance, which Tom felt to be aggravating and hard to bear, but couldn't for the life of him help admiring and envying especially when young my lord begins hectoring two or three long loafing fellows, half porter, half stableman, with a strong touch of the blackguard, and in the end arranges with one of them, nicknamed Cooey, to carry Tom's luggage up to the School-house for sixpence.
The governess spent it for him in extra ducal style. She was nearly forty and harboured a secret taste for patronizing young men of sorts of a certain sort. But of that Mrs. Fyne of course had no personal knowledge then; she told me however that even in the Priory days she had suspected her of being an artificial, heartless, vulgar-minded woman with the lowest possible ideals.
We didn't have your advantages, you know Tom and I didn't! We simply did the best we could in getting out realizing the value of time." The short man was employing a patronizing tone, as if accomplishing an escape from state prison was merely a matter of election of methods. All of the guard's official pride was in arms. He advanced on the convict and shook a finger under his nose.
Regarding this fact we are as well advised as yourself. Now you change color, Miss Butterworth. But there is no necessity. For an amateur you have made less trouble and fewer mistakes than were to be expected." Worse and worse! He was patronizing me now, and for results I had done nothing to bring about. I surveyed him in absolute amazement.
I know not whether he did more service to mankind in general, by reviving the practice of treating his prisoners with generosity, than he prejudiced his own country by patronizing the absurd and pernicious custom of duelling, and establishing a punto, founded in diametrical opposition to common sense and humanity.
Joel held the not unpopular theory that the supreme duty of woman is to make some man comfortable. Religion and philanthropy were legitimate diversions if not allowed to interfere with the higher claim. Even the exercise of talent might be tendered a patronizing approval, if this, too, knew its place.