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Indeed, it may be questioned if he heard the remark, for he went into his own room at the moment Roland spoke, and shut the door after him. "Mocking old caterpillar!" grumbled angry Roland. "No fortunes at Port Natal! I'd go off, if it was only to tantalize him!" Mrs. Jenkins had many virtues.
No one who trustingly consults and thoroughly questions his own soul, will be disposed to deny the entire radicalness of the propensity in question. It is not more incomprehensible than distinctive. There lives no man who at some period has not been tormented, for example, by an earnest desire to tantalize a listener by circumlocution.
"Well, monsieur?" she demanded. "Do you mean to tantalize me longer with your reticence?" But something in the haggard eyes he showed her made the girl catch her breath. "What is it?" she cried anxiously. "Monsieur Duchemin, what is your trouble?" "Only this truth that I must tell you," he said bitterly: "I merely played a part back there, just now.
"I caught a bit and a glimpse at a distance just enough to tantalize me." Elsie, who admired Mr. Graham immensely, was seized with sudden diffidence. He was a connoisseur in all matters of art. Suppose he should say right before Miss Pritchard, that she was only a silly tomboy, or whatever such a gentleman would say to express that idea? She glanced irresolutely at Miss Pritchard.
Jawleyford had stopped the champagne tap, though the needle-case glasses stood to tantalize the party till about the time that the beverage ought to have been flowing, when Spigot took them off. The flatness then became flatter. Nevertheless, Jack worked away in his usual carnivorous style, and finished by paying his respects to all the sweets, jellies, and things in succession.
Dulcie sprang up and snatched the papers from the man, and Dick, bouncing in at that instant, exclaimed with mock solemnity: "Oh fie! 'Thou shalt not snatch, Dulcie, you are 'no lady." "Thank heaven for that," she retorted quickly, then began to tantalize me by holding the papers just beyond my reach. At last she gave me two, and Dick one, opened one herself, and sat upon the rest.
If some devilish instinct in the brute, or some agent of Destiny, or mere fling of chance had held him on the plateau to tantalize and lead on his pursuer "Dreaming again!" Haig muttered, with a wry smile, and yet with a vague uneasiness that he could not put down.
He also braided a long grass rope such a rope as he had used so many years before to tantalize the ill-natured Tublat, and which later had developed into a wondrous effective weapon in the practised hands of the little ape-boy. A sheath and handle for his hunting-knife he fashioned, and a quiver for arrows, and from the hide of Bara a belt and loin-cloth.
"Up to then the whole thing hadn't amounted to a row of beans, so far as giving me a thrill went. But the worst was yet to come." "Go on, and don't stop so often, Thad," urged Hugh. "I believe you do it just to tantalize me. What wonderful secret did you discover there?
In reverence of his rank his townsmen indulged this defect, and would not distress him by remarking on it, till another preacher of those parts, actuated by a private pique, came on one occasion to tantalize him, and said, "I have seen you in a dream; may it prove fortunate!" He asked: "What have you seen?"
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