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Long before the little party separated for the night Langham had given it up, and had betaken himself to Catherine, reminding himself with some sharpness that he had come down to study his friend's life, rather than the humours of a provoking girl.
Cottrell in the course of the next two or three days, she dropped him a line of inquiry as to the composition of this coming water party, and concluded her note with "Blanche is most provoking. She has evidently had some tiff with Lionel Beauchamp. She is very resolute about not going to this affair hints mysteriously she wants to know something, and declines to say what.
Macnaghten did not take alarm at this significant demonstration, regarding the outbreak merely as 'provoking, and writing to Rawlinson that 'the rascals would be well trounced for their pains. Yet warnings of gathering danger were rife, which but for his mood of optimism should have struck home to his apprehension.
"You provoking old Gilmore, what can you possibly mean by calling him a man? He's nothing of the sort. He might have been a man half an hour ago, before I wanted my etchings, and he may be a man half an hour hence, when I don't want them any longer. At present he is simply a portfolio stand. Why object, Gilmore, to a portfolio stand?" "I DO object. For the third time, Mr.
Rout junior was disappointed. "H'm. H'm." She turned the page. "How provoking! He doesn't say what it is. Says I couldn't understand how much there was in it. Fancy! What could it be so very clever? What a wretched man not to tell us!" She read on without further remark soberly, and at last sat looking into the fire.
She carried her head very erect, tittered at every word she said and even when she said nothing, and walked like a man, swinging her sunburned arms. She went on laying out hey linen while she looked at Christophe with a provoking smile waiting for him to speak. Christophe stared at her too; but he had no desire to talk to her.
Hamilton was quite taken aback by the suddenness of this necessity for instantaneous action. The result of this was that the affrighted bird flew away unharmed, while Harry and the accountant burst spontaneously into fits of laughter. "How very provoking!" said the poor youth, with a dejected look. "Never mind never say die try again," said the accountant, on recovering his gravity.
Miss T. 'Really you are provoking; you understand perfectly as well as I do. Miss E. 'I am still in the dark. What is the curriculum of a cultivated lady? Mrs. P. 'I much doubt if Miss Toller is acquainted with the ordinary facts of geography, even those which are familiar to common seamen in the Navy. She probably could not tell us the situation of the Straits of Panama. Mrs.
It is very provoking," continued the An, "for she whom I love has certainly courted no one else, and I cannot but think she likes me. Sometimes I suspect that she does not court me because she fears I would ask some unreasonable settlement as to the surrender of her rights. But if so, she cannot really love me, for where a Gy really loves she forgoes all rights." "Is this young Gy present?"
All was safe and prosperous; and as the removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another, Emma, being now certain of her ball, began to adopt as the next vexation Mr. Knightley's provoking indifference about it.
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