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But he felt sure that it must be something of importance that had caused the usually reserved and retiring young nobleman to take such a step as this. "Do you like this red wine best or the other?" asked the marquis. "As for me, I drink some of both, so that there may be no jealous feeling between them."
At all events, he said to himself, while he reserved his opinion on this point, he was not going to call Sheila Sheila before folks who would know what that meant. Mr. Mackenzie was evidently a most irascible old gentleman.
He had been described to me in Portland as a most inaccessible person, showing himself extremely reserved toward strangers, and declining to give them the slightest satisfaction as to the interior management of the prosperous community over which he reigned a sovereign prince. The initiated maintained that this important personage had formerly been a tailor in Germany.
Then burst on me in all its broad reality the dread horror for which I was reserved then did I comprehend the design of that white circle with its centre of red: the savages were about to hold a shooting-match my own bosom was to be their target! Yes to hold a shooting-match was undoubtedly the design of my captors; and equally clear was it that my breast was to be their mark.
Let's pledge our word here and now that, being of the same blood and having grown up together, we will always be friends." The color in the cheeks of the other boy deepened. A slight moisture appeared in his eyes. He was, on the whole, more reserved than Harry, but he, too, was stirred. He took the outstretched hand and gave it a strong clasp. "Always, Harry," he replied.
In the sphere of international affairs in particular, while other nations have, for the most part, rendered official lip-service from time to time to ideals of international morality, it has been reserved for Germany to declare openly for the repudiation of "sentiment," and for a policy of undisguised cynicism and real-politik.
As soon as he had got out of me all he desired, he left me; and I observed that during the rest of the voyage he was wonderfully attentive to our governor, and yet more to the young ladies. Both, however, kept him rather at a distance; the young ladies were reserved, and once or twice I heard our governor cursing him between his teeth for a sharking priest.
Elfride only replied by quick heavy breaths, showing she was on the brink of a sob. 'You don't choose to be anything but reserved, then? he said imperatively. 'Of course we did, she responded. "Of course!" You seem to treat the subject very lightly? 'It is past, and is nothing to us now.
What at first seemed an opportunity occurred one afternoon when he saw an elderly gentleman, who had been pointed out as the head of a particular college, walking in the public path of a parklike enclosure near the spot at which Jude chanced to be sitting. The gentleman came nearer, and Jude looked anxiously at his face. It seemed benign, considerate, yet rather reserved.
This is a sentiment which we are gratified to record, more especially as at Madrid, the headquarters of the cruel game, it has not only the full sanction of the public officials and of the élite of the Spanish capital, but the patronage of royalty itself. The central box of the bull-ring in that city is reserved for the court, and there are no empty seats during the performance.
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