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Milly was in favour of again attacking 'Beauty's' position on her return, and forcing a passage from this side; but I insisted on following the route by which we had arrived, and so we got round the paling by the river, and were treated to a provoking grin of defiance by 'Beauty, who was talking across the gate to a slim young man, arrayed in fustian, and with an odd-looking cap of rabbit-skin on his head, which, on seeing us, he pulled sheepishly to the side of his face next to us, as he lounged, with his arm under his chin, on the top bar of the gate.
The conscience of the unhappy criminal was indeed busy, and he spoke in tones of deep, though suppressed emotion and energy. The youth did not pretend to console he well knew that the mental nature would have its course, and to withstand or arrest it would only have the effect of further provoking its morbidity. He replied calmly, but feelingly
But of all the insect pests that beset an unseasoned European the most provoking by far is the truculent mosquito. Next to the torture which it inflicts, its most annoying peculiarities are the booming hum of its approach, its cunning, its audacity, and the perseverance with which it renews its attacks however frequently repulsed.
Clare, who idly witnessed the estrangement from the Church of the soul of a maiden belonging to a distinguished family; and Doria had told the sovereign of this provoking matter, and expressed the prior's hope that Sir Heinz Schorlin, who enjoyed the monarch's favour, would be won for the monastic life.
So she took up a book, and began, without any perception of the sense of what she was reading, but her thoughts dwelling partly on her brother, and partly on her aunt's provoking ways. She read on through a whole chapter, then closing the book hastily, exclaimed, "I must go and see what Aunt Geoffrey is doing with Fred." "She is not such a very dangerous person," said Mrs.
For the rest, her mouth curved in an irreproachable bow, her complexion was mingled milk and roses, her blue eyes brooded in a provoking calm; taking matters by and large, the smile that followed her inspection of the mirror's depths was far from unwarranted.
She forced the words from her lips and carefully looked away, taking this second key to the situation mechanically, and for a moment groping with it. 'What arrangement did you make to be informed about about him? she asked, and instantly regretted having gone so perilously near provoking a direct question.
This was sufficiently provoking; but I read a few pages, and tried a second cigar, and made the tour of the apartment, examining a family mourning-piece worked in satin, a genealogical tree done in worsted, and a portrait of the mutton-headed landlord and his snappish wife.
Gilbert, however, seemed perfectly indifferent, and with the most provoking coolness replied, "I came to see my fair sister married to congratulate her upon an alliance which will bring us upon a more equal footing." "You greatly mistake me, sir," said Mr. Sherwood, turning haughtily toward Mr.
Charley tossed his head in a provoking way, that made Bertie say "Don't!" "I shall do so again," said Flora. "I wouldn't," said Bertie. "Wouldn't you, truly?" "No," answered Bertie, seriously, "not if I were a little girl." "Then I won't, and Dinah won't. Oh! She has gone to be a blackbird I forgot."
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