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"It's like a Chinese puzzle," said Lady Prowche resentfully, staring at a scribbled list of names that spread over two or three loose sheets of notepaper on her writing-table. Most of the names had a pencil mark running through them. "What is like a Chinese puzzle?" asked Lena Luddleford briskly; she rather prided herself on being able to grapple with the minor problems of life.
And so, let Tilbury like it or not, let him rave in his grave to his fill, no matter no mention of his death would ever see the light in the WEEKLY SAGAMORE. Five weeks drifted tediously along. The SAGAMORE arrived regularly on the Saturdays, but never once contained a mention of Tilbury Foster. Sally's patience broke down at this point, and he said, resentfully: "Damn his livers, he's immortal!"
Sylvia darted off in obedience to the call; glad to leave him, as at the moment Kinraid resentfully imagined. Through the open door he heard the conversation between mother and daughter, almost unconscious of its meaning, so difficult did he find it to wrench his thoughts from the ideas he had just been forming with Sylvia's bright lovely face right under his eyes.
Sewell had not so much of what he called his flying-charity fund by him, but he instantly resolved to advance the difference out of his own pocket. "It's to get me an outfit for horse-car conductor," said Lemuel. "I can have the place if I can get the outfit." "Horse-car conductor!" reverberated Sewell. "What in the world for?" "It's work I can do," answered Lemuel briefly, but not resentfully.
The spinster now frowned resentfully. Nothing could have angered her more than such an allusion made in the presence of the amused bachelor. She nursed her fury in silence for a moment, only to become more set in the grim purpose of her present visit.
"Why didn't you bring him to us?" asked the Doctor, scowling resentfully at the facetious drawings and legends on the walls, where the dampness glistened in the sickly light. The keeper made a low reply as he shot the bolts. "What?" quickly asked Mary. "He's not well," said Dr. Sevier. The gate swung open. They stepped into the yard and across it. The prisoners paused in a game of ball.
"As if I should forget you!" she said rather resentfully. "I could just as soon forget my brother, if I had one." The word did not suit Maurice. He sighed, with a kind of impatience. "Shall we go in?" he said. They turned towards the house, but when they reached it, instead of following Lucia in, he said "Good-night." She turned in surprise. "But you are coming in?"
A fluttering murmur from the group confirmed this thought. "Nice little speech," said Falconer in an undertone. The second voice was raised a trifle resentfully. "Yet was not the very pith of it spoken by Ruskin when he stood upon this identical spot? His words were these, 'At last size tells!" Another murmur agreed that it was indeed the pith.
"That poor woman whom we used to call Mrs. Rawlins told her sad story next. She is much worn and subdued, and Mr. Grey was struck with the change from the fierce excitement she showed when she was first confronted with Maddox, after her own trial; but she held fast to the same evidence, giving it not resentfully, but sadly and firmly, as if she felt it to be her duty.
Oh, of course, present comp'ny always accentuated," she hastened to add with a sly chuckle, as Mrs. McGuire stirred into sudden resentment. "Humph!" subsided Mrs. McGuire, still a little resentfully. "An' I'm free to confess that there's some kinds of 'less days that we've already got plenty of," went on Susan, after a moment's thoughtful pause.
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