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What I said was simply this However, to reason with ladies is rude; I shall just be off to my study." "Where you keep your tools, my darling," Mrs. Hockin said, softly, after him: "at least, I mean, when you know where they are." I was astonished at Aunt Mary's power of being so highly provoking, and still more at her having the heart to employ it.
Perhaps she does not know how charming her figure appears in this position. Perhaps she does. She is smiling down at Gower in a half defiant, wholly tantalizing fashion, and is as like the "sweet, provoking, unattainable bird" as ever she can be. Rising slowly to his feet, Gower goes up to her, and, as is his lawful right, encircles her bonnie round waist with his arm.
I will tell my uncle the whole truth, I said. 'Well, it may be that is the best, she replied, with provoking coolness. 'You think I don't mean it? 'Of course you do, she replied. 'And we shall see what my uncle thinks of it. 'We shall see, my dear, she replied, with an air of mock contrition. 'Adieu, Madame! 'You are going to Monsieur Ruthyn? very good!
There, Lance! said Felix, in a gratified provoking tone of discovery. 'In one sense, said Wilmet, walking down before him. 'I am very glad you have found it out, added Felix, as they entered Mr. Froggatt's cool well-blinded bedroom, the only well-furnished one in the house. 'It is no laughing matter, said Wilmet seriously. 'That's well, was the dry answer.
When the partition is made, the wicked will be oppressed with an intolerable heat, caused by the sun, which, having been called into existence again, will approach within a mile, provoking a sweat to issue from them, and this, according to their demerits, will immerse them from the ankles to the mouth; but the righteous will be screened by the shadow of the throne of God.
His father observed it too, and, after some thinking on the subject, made up his mind that he would allow Bert to finish the spring term at Mr. Garrison's, and then, after the summer holidays, send him to some other school. The winter passed away and spring drew near. Spring is the most dilatory and provoking of all the seasons at Halifax.
There was a certain stately air of the hills about him which was often mistaken for country inexperience, and men thought in consequence to make gain or game of him. But such found their mistake, and if not soon, then the more completely. Far from provoking or even meeting hostility, he soon satisfied those that persisted, that it was dangerous.
The rivals, morbidly suspicious of each other, taciturn to the point of unfriendliness, had indeed chartered a locomotive not jointly by intention, but because of provoking necessity. There was but one engine to be had. It is safe to say that while they travelled many sore and turbulent miles in close proximity to each other, neither felt called upon to offer or to demand an explanation.
Instead of provoking him immediately in the salon of Villa Steno, he had waited, and another had had time to substitute himself for the one he had wished to chastise. The other, whose death would at least have given a tragical issue to the adventure, Boleslas had scarcely touched.
In the reign of our second Charles, when duels flourished in all their absurdity, and the seconds fought while their principals were engaged, Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, not content with having debauched the countess of Shrewsbury and publishing her shame, took all opportunities of provoking the earl to single combat, hoping he should have an easy conquest, his lordship being a puny little creature, quiet, inoffensive, and every way unfit for such personal contests.
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