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I do not think that anything in my manner showed either my pique or my disdain; I believe I went about just as usual; but these things were often in my thoughts, and taking by degrees more room in them. It was not till the Sunday came round again, that I got any more light.
Now, I understand him, but I don't always like him not all of him." "I wonder whether anyone understands him?" "He's not such a sphinx as he looks!" Her tone betrayed a slight pique "Now, your character would be much harder to read. That's one of the differences." "We are all transparent enough to those who look through the right glasses," said Temple.
He died before she did. He was assassinated by a native before they had been married three months. I've always thought it was rather poor-spirited of her to die too; for of course she never cared for him. She must have married him only to pique Kersley. By the way, Major Hunt-Goring met them in his subaltern days. He said everyone fell in love with her.
My conscience stung me at this last reflection; and there came upon me all of a sudden a sense of the utter desolation of this awful place without a single friend! No, I determined it should take more than a little pique to make me cast away my only friend. And with the thought, though it must have been far on in the night, I slipped from my bed and crawled to his.
"Come, captain," said Mademoiselle gently. "Must you continue this after it has turned into a farce? Must you continue acting from pique, when the thing has been over for more years than you care to remember? Must you keep on now because of a whim to make your life miserable and the lives of others? Will you threaten fifty men with death and ruin, because you once were called a thief?
He himself was a traveller for a publishing firm; and he introduced conversation by talking of Uttoxeter, and my description of it in an annual. He said that the account had caused a good deal of pique among the good people of Uttoxeter, because of the ignorance which I attribute to them as to the circumstance which connects Johnson with their town.
Certainly Richard had not destroyed the will; the old man himself had destroyed it, probably in some fit of pique. Yet, after all, the vital question was in no way affected by this fact; the motive for the crime remained, and the fearful evidence against Richard still held. After the departure of Lawyer Perkins, who had been struck by the singular perturbation of his old friend, Mr.
For a moment his virility had overwhelmed her into a feeling of deference, but she recovered herself sufficiently to droop nonchalantly into her seat as he gave her his hand. He was not in the least put out of countenance by her unexpected presence, and she felt a fleeting sense of disappointment, almost of pique. "I suppose you're wondering why I'm here," she began, tritely.
His nephew at that stepped in, and, with a little disdainful laugh at me, made some galling gibe at my 'distinguished learning. I might have known better than to let it pique me, but I spoke up again, though respectfully enough, that I was not wrong. It appeared to me all at once as if some principle were at stake, as if I were the champion of our Shakespeare; so will vanity delude us.
"The Count of Ferroll and I shall have to contend for many things more precious than golden helms before we die." "I believe he is a very overrated man," said Endymion. "Why?" said the prince. "I detest him," said Endymion. "That is certainly a reason why you should not overrate him," said the prince. "There seems a general conspiracy to run him up," said Endymion with pique.
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