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But he regarded her long and coldly, then deliberately turned his back. As he did this, Frona noted her face go tired and gray, and the hardness and recklessness of her laughter were there painted in harsh tones, and a bitter devil rose up and lurked in her eyes. It was evident that the same bitter devil rushed hotly to her tongue.
Tallant, who in this general embarrassment had been imperfectly served, and had eaten nothing, here felt his grievance reach its climax, and in a sudden outbreak of recklessness he roared out, "Hi, waiter you, Tournelli. He may," he added, turning darkly to us, "buy up enough stock to control the board and dismiss ME; but, by thunder, if it costs me my place, I'm going to have some more chicken!"
Perhaps it is not easy to believe that recklessness is a manifestation of the second degree of passion, while the highest shows itself in painful sacrifice.
His night was a mixture of wildness, outflamings of satire on the virtues, witty defiance of the fates, and recklessness of everything save reference to women. Not a word escaped his lips whereby his keenest, most delighted listener could have probed to the heart of his mood.
His anger was a frenzied runaway which he, like a madman, was riding in utter recklessness. "If I go now," he violently protested, "if I am sent into exile at the behest of Tollman, my enemy, I go for all time, knowing that the woman I leave behind is not the woman I thought I knew or the woman I have worshiped."
Folks ought to slide down hill more'n they do. It isn't a good idea to be always climbing." "'Fraid we couldn't stan' it," said Miss S'mantha, tentatively. Under all her man-fear and suspicion lay a furtive recklessness. "Y, no!" the other whispered, laughing silently. The pervading silence of that house came flooding in between sentences.
Dan threw himself wearily into a chair and there was a spirit of recklessness in his reply, as though he were letting go of himself again. "How is a blind man to recognize a quack? I would to God I had your glasses!" "Perhaps," said the Doctor deliberately, "I might lend them to you, just for once, you know." "Well then," said the other, sitting up suddenly, "let me have them!
He is apt to lose his recklessness which might have stood by him well in exchange for a little quite useless science. He is neither one thing nor the other, neither a natural fighter nor a skilful boxer. This point O'Hara endeavoured to press upon him as soon as he had explained why it was that he wanted coaching on this particular afternoon.
Though American recklessness of life is proverbial among foreigners, we may be thankful that India-rubber bags of explosive gases are not carried by ignorant boys through our streets, as in Newcastle, England. The practice resulted by a singular chain of mishaps in a violent explosion.
The horse mistook it for a signal, and it was two minutes before the speed was reduced to mere recklessness. The helmet-strap mark, printed indelibly on King's jaw and cheek by the Indian sun, tightened and grew whiter as the general noted out of the corner of his eye. "Know her?" "Know of her, of course, sir. Everybody does. Never met her to my knowledge." "Um-m-m! Whose fault was that?
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