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"And why should I be forbidden to love him?" asked Julie, with lively curiosity in her face. "Ah, my Julie, you would not understand me," sighed the father. "Tell me, all the same," said Julie, with an involuntary petulant gesture. "Very well, child, listen to me.

It always seems to me that the night hunters of pasture and woodland bewail the passing of such a night as much as I do. The whippoor-will began to voice his petulant wistfulness again. He had been silent for hours, feasting I dare say on myriad moths and unable to call with his mouth full. The whippoor-will chants matins as querulously as he does vespers.

We ate leisurely of a well-served course dinner, ending with black coffee, shelled nuts, and candied fruit. Replete and satisfied we strolled back across the veranda to the main house. F. raised his hand. "Hark!" he admonished us. We held still. From the velvet darkness came the hurried petulant barking of zebra; three hyenas howled. Next day we left all this; and continued our march.

The king, Cleon the Modest, was basically a good fellow, though he was not known for his brilliance in government. Instead, he was known chiefly for his glowing and nubile daughter, Jennifrella, a girl, though proud and a trifle petulant, so freighted with beauty and charms that pretty much every bachelor and not a few married men in the kingdom dreamed about her, whether awake or asleep.

Caring less about the plants, Gabriele was eager to witness dog meets boy and boy makes dog into a friend but the joy was stymied in stepping inside the house. When they went in they saw mercurial Mr. Petulant executing punishment against the son of Mr. Phlegmatic. Nathaniel had Rick's head under the running water of the faucet.

'Brittle is foredoomed, said Diana, unruffled. She deserved compliments, and would have had them if she had not wounded the most jealous and petulant of her courtiers. 'Then the Turk is a sapient custodian! said Westlake, vexed with her flush at the entrance of the Scot. Diana sedately took his challenge. 'We, Mr. Westlake, have the philosophy of ownership. Mr.

To a certain degree, this is often the case; the complete prostration of strength, and the dim awe of approaching death in the acute illnesses of the young, often tame down the stubborn or petulant temper, and their patience and forbearance become the wonder and admiration of those who have seen germs of far other dispositions. And when this is not the case, who would have the heart to complain?

If she regarded him sadly, the sufferer grew petulant or irate. He would not endure a question concerning his health. On the day which was understood to be Nancy's last at Teignmouth, he brightened a little, and talked with pleasure, as it seemed, of her return on the morrow. Horace had written that he would be home this evening, but Mr. Lord spoke only of his daughter.

When I tapped softly at her door, she said, "Come in!" in a pained and petulant tone, as if any interruption was wearisome to her; but when she saw who it was, her countenance assumed an eager and animated expression, which rewarded me at once for the effort I was making. "Thank you for coming to see me," said she quickly. "I was almost on the point of sending for you."

During this brief stop, some of the soldiers approached the well-curb, near which Rose and Septimius were standing, and let down the bucket to satisfy their thirst. A young officer, a petulant boy, extremely handsome, and of gay and buoyant deportment, also came up.