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Marjorie tried to draw him into her lap, but he eluded her with a resentful wiggle, and walking up to Leonard, whacked him on the thigh and looked up with a sly, beseeching glance which said, "Whack me back. You play with me. You notice me. I love you."

"Ready for the time when he comes back, I suppose?" She nodded assent slowly, as if grudging him that share of the knowledge of her inner life. "Poor old kid, you've got a job ahead of you!" he commiserated. A resentful flush crept into her face, but she turned aside, gathering her sticks as if to hide her displeasure. Boyle laughed.

Had circumstances allowed it, Amy would have given frank welcome to such friendship; she would have been glad to accept as many invitations as Edith chose to offer. But at present it did her harm to come in contact with Mrs Carter; it made her envious, cold to her husband, resentful against fate. 'Why can't she leave me alone? was the thought that rose in her mind as Edith entered.

She meant that this is my chance to learn to write. I I " She paused and glanced at me dubiously from under her lashes. "I sent in that story just to show her that I couldn't write. I was going to tell her I had tried and failed." "Oh!" Then I chuckled, and the freshman after a moment of half resentful pouting joined in with a small reluctant laugh.

"Well I'm sitting up so far," she answered, and she opened the door slowly. "I thought you might be feeling a little homesick, the first night in a strange place," he went on, "and I wanted to say good-night to you once again." A great, resentful sob rose in the girl's breast, and with a sudden impulse she flung both her arms around his neck. "Kiss me," she said chokingly. "You kissed her.

Continue to look at this crowd, so pitiful, so terrible, such a melancholy waste of incalculable power continue to observe and you may chance upon an example of the third type. You are likely at first to confuse the third type with the second, for they seem to be much alike. Here and there, of the resentful strugglers, will be one whose resentment is intelligent.

The school was not so much regretful as comfortably thrilled. And Burgess had actually cursed before sympathising. Mike felt resentful towards Burgess. As a matter of fact, the cricket captain wrote a letter to Wyatt during preparation that night which would have satisfied even Mike's sense of what was fit. But Mike had no opportunity of learning this.

Now his manner merely sent a vague reflection through her brain that upon the ocean's other side their peasants were well trained. Now she was bitterly resentful of the fact that, on the ship, she had been fooled into thinking him a person, possibly, of eminence.

When they arrived at the church they were hurried along and asked if they came so late in order to make a mockery of religion. A priest came forward, his face pale and resentful from having to delay his lunch. An altar boy in a soiled surplice ran before him.

I've saw men shot up before " "Aw I betche you'd think it was bad if you had it " murmured Happy Jack peevishly, lifting his eyelids heavily for a resentful glance when they moved him a little. But even as Big Medicine grinned joyfully down at him he went off again into mental darkness, and the grin faded into solicitude.