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The merchant perceived this and submitted in silence, for the boys must be and remain Christians in consequence of the edict referring to wills; but the necessity for confessing a creed which was hateful to him was so painful and repulsive to a nature which, though naturally magnanimous was not very steadfast, that he was anxious to spare his sons the same experience, and allowed them to accompany Constantine to church and to wear blue the badge of the Christians at races and public games, with a shrug of silent consent.
It burns with a certain prodigality of beauty, a superb absence of economy in giving. And that" with a little shrug of her shoulders she turned towards the severe, and sombre, eastern landscape "that, it strikes me, comes a good deal nearer my own. Which is best?" Mr. Quayle congratulated himself upon the removal of his shoes.
"You are both rather difficult to deal with," remarked Steel, with a shrug. "However, I'll explain, and you can draw your own inferences. It seems from what Mrs. Benker said that Mr. Wilson was mostly out all night and in all day. Also he was frequently absent for a long time. He likewise took much interest in Society newspapers and in the movements of the aristocracy.
He could see Berenice reading the morning paper in the little grey courtyard, with the pigeons flying above her head and the sunlight streaming across the flags. He could hear Borrowdean's sneer, could see Lord Redford's shrug of the shoulders. There is little sympathy in the world for the man who dares to change his mind. There was a knock at the door, and his servant entered with a tray.
Then he exclaimed, "You are Richard Pennroyal I didn't know you at first, you look so old!" "Oh, the fellow's quite mad!" muttered Richard, turning away with a shrug of the shoulders. "I should have known better than to run the risk of having such a lunatic here. We must have him moved out of the room at once." Young Sir Edward overheard this latter sentence.
What a brute I am never to have asked after your work! Does it get on? 'As much as any work can in London just now. I must take it away with me somewhere into the country next month. It doesn't like dinner-parties. 'Like me, said Wallace, with a shrug. 'Nonsense! said Kendal; 'you're made for them. Good-night. 'Good-night. It's awfully good of you. 'What? Wait till it's well over!
He folded the paper again and carefully tore it into very small pieces. "Thank you," he said gravely. Then he turned in his chair and threw the papers into the ash-tray of the little iron stove behind him. "I judged it best to be strictly business-like," said the butcher, with moderately well-simulated carelessness. "But yes, Monsieur Lerac," with a shrug.
The father died a week later, and the sanitary officer himself was subsequently killed during the battle of the Somme. The French refugees do not complain; they are not that kind. They told their stories simply and invariably finished with a shrug of the shoulders and the phrase "c'est la guerre n'est ce pas?"
"Aussi que diable venait il faire dans cette galere?" says King of Corpus to Jones of Trinity; and Jones gave a shrug of his shoulders, which were smarting, perhaps; for that uplifted cane of the Colonel's had somehow fallen on the back of every man in the room.
Santa Maria! who is she?" "Oh!" said M. Rameau, with a shrug of his shoulders, and with true Parisian sangfroid as to such matters of morality, "a trifle not worth considering. Of course, a good-looking garcon like Gustave must have his little affairs of the heart before he settles for life.
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