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"You want to be rid of him, eh?" "The Place does not need three gardeners." The old man, who seemed to be feeling about for something, scowled. "What it does not need is the atmosphere that you are giving it. You may go to the devil your own way. I sha'n't stop you. But it puts a bad taste in my mouth to have you turn it into a road-house. Damn it, sir, you were born there."
A namesake, or, at the nearest, a very distant connection of whom I speak with all Christian forbearance my branch of the family have no cause to be proud." The organist had scowled when the Rector was proposing Westray as a fellow-lodger, but Joliffe's disclaimer of the landlady seemed to pique him.
You ought to be as much obliged to me as I am to you." She scowled at me darkly. I think she would have stabbed me gladly, but just then the warder entered with my servant, and an official from the palace. This latter, with a profound salutation, handed me a letter from the count.
Gondremark scowled upon him; and the non-combatant on his right, intercepting this black look, edged away from one who was so clearly out of favour. 'The hour presses, your Highness, said the Baron; 'may we proceed to business? 'At once, replied Seraphina. 'Your Highness will pardon me, said Gotthold; 'but you are still, perhaps, unacquainted with the fact that Prince Otto has returned.
He looked at Flannery's letter and scowled. Miss Merrill waited patiently. It gave her an opportunity to primp. "Never mind, Miss Merrill," said the president finally. "I will call you later." He was wondering whether he should discharge Flannery, or issue Webster's Unabridged as General Order Number 720, or what he should do.
The sentry in the nest had his back to us, and was peering intently down through the branches of the tree tops. He remained so long motionless that I thought he was not aware of our approach. But he had heard us. Only it was no part of his orders to make abrupt movements. With infinite caution, with the most considerate slowness, he turned, scowled, and waved us back.
He also scowled at the young woman whose utter disdain of him had cut him to the quick. "I will get even with the pair of them, if it takes me the balance of my life," said Leroy Crutcher to the group of hackmen, after Bud Harper and the young woman had driven away.
"Are you going to leave our camp?" Harry demanded, as the visitor squatted on the ground. "If you two are going away," scowled the other, "you'll need some one to stay and watch the camp. I'll stay for you." "Come on, Harry!" Tom called, starting away under the trees. Alf Drew had already gone.
With his quick eye for detail he had caught the Cincinnati button worn by Edestone, and said: "I see that you are the descendant of a soldier, which gives you a greater claim upon my imperial favour. What was your ancestor's rank?" "He was a general, Your Majesty," replied Edestone with a firmness that seemed to attract and slightly offend him. He scowled.
His ardor dampened by this rebuke, the gleam in Nat's eye became one of ugliness at his humiliation before the crew of the Rosan. He scowled furiously and stood by her side without saying a word. It was in this unfortunate moment that Nellie seized on the general topic of the day.
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