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There was always something original in Bonaparte's behaviour, for he often slipped away from us without saying a word; and when we were supposing he had left the theatre, we would suddenly discover him in the second or third tier, sitting alone in a box, and looking rather sulky.
If you wait a little, she'll give you another letter in exchange, and if you bring it up to me, you shall have all those! And she spread out her bribes. The boys' faces were sulky. The house by the river was unpopular, owing to its tenant. But the temptation was of a devilish force. They took the letter and scampered down the hill driving their goats before them.
McNabb, with a warning wink from behind the tea-pot. And Peter shoved the cucumbers across the table in sulky silence, wondering why on earth it was that he could never be allowed to speak at the table without some mysterious interruption. But John Egerton understood perfectly, and this evening, as he walked down the hillside, his conscience was once more asking troublesome questions.
Daggett guided the sulky brown horse between the big stone gateposts and brought him to a standstill under the somewhat pretentious porte-cochère of the Bolton house. Lydia Orr was beside the vehicle in a moment, her face bright with welcoming smiles. "Dear Mrs. Daggett," she said, "I'm so glad you've come. I've been wanting to see you all day. I'm sure you can tell me "
Moreover, the slaves imported were adults who had been once free; and torn as they were from their natural soil and homes, where they slept in idleness throughout the day, they were naturally morose and obstinate, sulky and unwilling to work. This occasioned severe punishment; and the hearts of their masters being indurated by habit, it often led to acts of barbarity.
'That House in the Rue Traversiere, once his and Another's, now his alone, for the time being, it is probably more like a Mausoleum than a House to him. And Versailles, with its sulky Trajans, its Crebillon cabals, what charm is in Versailles?
There was a place at Frascati she had always admired, and they could use some ideas from a show place in Florida. Had Trafalgar terminated differently Napoleon would have been no more surprised or jubilant than Trudy, who fairly skidded home to the new and more pretentious apartment, where she found Gay in one of his sneering, sulky moods and quite angry to think Trudy was carrying the day.
He had seen her paleness and her look of consternation, had observed the sulky, penetrating look of the bear-leader's eye, and he knew that he was stumbling upon a story. Her eye met his, then swiftly turned away. When her look came to his face again it was filled with defiant laughter, and a hot brilliancy showed where the paleness had been. "Will you dance with me?" Ferrol asked.
If I am only to walk a mile with a man, why should I not make that mile as pleasant to him as I can; or why, above all, if I choose to be sulky, and tell him to go and be d d, am I to swell out my chest, colour with conscious virtue, and cry, see what a good heart I have? "What!" cried I, "you forget yourself, Vincent. How can the private virtues be cultivated without a coal fire?
She did not answer promptly: and her answer, to my surprise, was a protest against her name: for a rather sulky, yet gentle, voice came from the darkness, saying: 'I am not a Poisoner! 'Well, said I, 'all right: tell me whatever you like that I should call you, and henceforth I will call you that. 'Call me Eve, says she.
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