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Don Esteban will miss her for a time and then, I dare say, he will remarry." At the negro's exclamation Cueto cried: "So! And why not? Everybody knows how rich he is. From Oriente to Pinar del Rio the women have heard about his treasure." "What treasure?" asked Sebastian, after an instant's pause. Cueto's dark eyes gleamed resentfully at this show of ignorance, but he laughed. "Ho!
Scores of stores and stands change hands in the Ghetto every day, the purchaser being usually a workman who has saved up some money with an eye to business "Does it pay?" I ventured to ask. "I am not in it merely for the fun of it, am I?" he returned, somewhat resentfully. "Business is business and poetry is poetry. I hate to confound the two. One must make a living.
If he had thought to punish her by staying away, it was evident that she felt equally responsible for a great deal of misery on his part. Both had been more or less unhappy, and both were resentfully obstinate. Brewster felt hurt and insulted, while she felt that he had imposed upon her disgracefully. He was now ready to cry quits and it surprised him to find her obdurate.
This kind of treatment might answer with some people, but not with my brother. He alludes to it resentfully in the introductory chapter of his book. He became suspicious that a preconceived opinion was being defended at the expense of honest scrutiny, and was thus driven upon his own unaided investigation. The result may be guessed: he began to go astray, and strayed further and further.
And now she did laugh, throwing back her head, and he laughed with her, shyly but not resentfully. It was as though a crisis in their relationship had been passed. He could trust her to understand. And he knew that though what he had said was true, it had also sounded young and sententious. "You think I'm talking rot, don't you?" "I only think you've changed," she answered, with a quick gravity.
"They're not silly stories, but hard, indisputable facts!" I declared resentfully. The millionaire had assumed an air of nonchalance, for leaning against a big old buhl table he took out a cigarette from his gold case and slowly lit it, after which he said: "You must, I think, really excuse me. We have to go down into Florence to meet my sister-in-law, who is coming from London. I'm afraid, Mr.
As though from a head tilted suddenly backward the White Linen Nurse's laugh rang out in joyous abandon. Impulsively the Senior Surgeon started to grin. Then equally impulsively the grin soured on his lips. So they thought he was clumsy? Eh? Resentfully he stared down at his hands, those wonderfully dexterous, yes, ambidexterous hands that were the aching envy of all his colleagues.
I was sick of the whole affair, but I was determined to stick it out until the other boys were ready to come back." "I'm glad you did stick it out," replied the mother, half resentfully, and kissing him upon the forehead pretended to busy herself with the work about the house. On a summer evening Seth Richmond went to the New Willard House to visit his friend, George Willard.
He was rather disappointed. "I think it will be a great deal," she said, almost haughtily, resentfully. He laughed shortly. "Why do you think it won't?" she asked. "Oh, I don't think it won't be a great deal. Only you'll find earning your own living isn't everything." "No," she said, swallowing with difficulty; "I don't suppose it is."
"It seems to me, however, that In-Salah " I said, a little vexed. "In-Salah? Tidi-Kelt! But, my poor friend, the last time that I passed that way there were as many old newspapers and empty sardine boxes as if it had been Sunday in the Wood of Vincennes." Such a determined, such an evident desire to annoy me made me forget my reserve. "Evidently," I replied resentfully, "I have never been to "
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