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"She and Charlotte have never been sleepy-heads." Eddy glanced resentfully at his mother. He was a little jealous in these days. He had never felt himself so distinctly in the background as during these preparations for his sister's wedding. "I am not a sleepy-head, either, Amy," said he. "It is a pity you are not," said she, and everybody laughed.
Men looking from the windows of the big shops those great shops where army supplies were manufactured noticed them with much the same thought, some of them admiringly, some resentfully, as they chanced to feel about things. They drove past building after building, buildings in which hundreds of men toiled on preparations for a possible war.
He glanced at the lean length. "One hundred and twenty-eight?" "Thirty-two," said Blue Jeans, and somehow resentfully. "Fine fine! Well?" Blue Jeans had learned to make decisions with suddenness. He gave this one, however, a full five seconds' consideration. Then he reached out and possessed himself of the card. "Scratch Blake and send bearer against Condit Saturday.
Franz gave me a note at Ganlook, but I did not read it until I was a member of the guard." "You have known it so long?" she cried joyously. "And you have trusted me? You have not hated me for deceiving you?" "I have never ceased to regard you as my sovereign," he said softly. "But just a moment ago you spoke of me as a frisky American girl," she said resentfully.
No description can do justice to the intensity of its insolence; it made even Mr. Fullarton's torpid blood boil resentfully. "How dare you address such words to me?" he cried out, trembling with rage. "If it were not for my profession " "Stop!" the other broke in, rudely; "you need not trouble yourself to repeat that stale clap-trap.
Do sit down for a little. There is a great deal left to us, we can still be friends, yes, a great deal. 'It will be better for me to go away, he said, not bitterly nor resentfully, but with a quiet manliness which made the heart of Gladys glow with pride in him, though it was sore with another feeling she did not quite understand. 'By and by, but not yet, she said coaxingly.
Loftus introduced her to me when I arrived as the 'apostle of humanity." "Why should you fix on that particular apostle for me?" said Hugh, looking resentfully at a large-faced woman who was talking in an "intense" manner to a slightly bewildered Bishop. "It is a prophetic instinct, nothing more."
The chief of the detective bureau received us in his private room. He listened attentively to Blake's report, but seemed rather puzzled than gratified by its triumphant peroration. Now the young man felt that he had done a big thing, and this non-committal attitude of his superior chagrined him. He unrolled the covering in which the picture had been wrapped. "There!" he said, half resentfully.
Jude followed and rejoined her. "Just one!" he coaxed. "Shan't!" she said. He, surprised: "What's the matter?" She kept her two lips resentfully together, and Jude followed her like a pet lamb till she slackened her pace and walked beside him, talking calmly on indifferent subjects, and always checking him if he tried to take her hand or clasp her waist.
"What boy was that the one who came for you?" "It was Mother Whiteman's little son." "And Captain Thorn then gave you this version of the tragedy?" "It was the right version," resentfully spoke Afy. "How do you know that?" "Oh! because I'm sure it was. Who else would kill him but Richard Hare? It is a scandalous shame, your wanting to put it upon Thorn!"
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