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He has much to say to us, and he cannot talk with a dry throat." "Nor an empty stomach," added King. He drank long of the pitcher that was held to his lips. "This is not the Regengetz," growled a surly voice. "You mean, I don't eat?" "Not at midnight, my friend." "It seems to be an all-night joint." "Enough," cried Spantz. "Bring him out here. The others have come."
Paul was surly and had evidently been drinking, for he shoved the servant roughly out of the way as he strode toward his father. Apparently outside Paul had overheard and had gathered the drift of what Balcom had been saying. Or perhaps, from his own sources of information, he already knew. At any rate, as Balcom turned from the telephone, father and son faced each other angrily.
Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view, to make the water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen, to leave intervals where the eye will be pleased, and to thicken the plantation where there is something to be hidden, demands any great powers of mind, I will not inquire: perhaps a sullen and surly spectator may think such performances rather the sport than the business of human reason.
They needed it to screw up their courage. Now they are as wild as Umbooni's. Laputa asked a question. 'It was the Dutchmen, who were out on the Koodoo Flats with their cattle. Man, it's no good being squeamish. Do you think you can talk over these surly back-veld fools? If we had not done it, the best of their horses would now be over the Berg to give warning.
"Let him swear to say nought of us, and let him go then," one of the other leaders said in a surly way. Then the chief got up and laughed at them all. "There are six of us slain and a dozen with wounds, and we will make him pay for that and for Morgan as well before we have done with him. Now we must not bide here, or we shall have his men back on us, seeking him.
'Depend upon it, it will be you that will wish to stand still when I had rather be on the move, said the Marquis. 'Then you had better leave me behind. I have no intention of being hurried over the world, and never having my own way, said Claude, trying to look surly. 'I am sure I should not mind travelling twice over the world to see Cologne Cathedral, or the field of Waterloo, said Lily.
The man at the door said this in a very surly tone, for the slight tendency to politeness which had begun to manifest itself while the prospect of "a job" was hopeful, vanished before the haughty manner of the merchant. "Well, it is just possible that I may require the assistance of divers," said Mr Hazlit, ringing the bell; "when I do, I can send for you. John, show this person out."
"Always politeness," thought I, when my wine had come, and so, in spite of his rudeness and his own neglect of the courtesy, as I raised my glass I said to him, "Your health, Monsieur." He turned red at the reproach implied in my observance, then very reluctantly lifted his own glass and said, "And yours," in a surly, grudging manner.
At last she said, in a softened tone, as if the remembrance of the Christmas legend had softened her surly thoughts and sweetened the bitter mood: "Perhaps I'm wrong to take on so. Perhaps it isn't God's fault that I and my children are deserted and starving.
As we were close enough to them to be easily watched, the officers, I suppose, thought that we should not attempt to move away. Ithulpo had stowed a sort of knapsack he carried with some dried meat and bread, which he now produced, and it served to satisfy our appetites; but we had no wine, and our surly guards did not deign to offer us any. "Do not repine, sirs, at the want," he observed.
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