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Cameron replied, with some little testiness of manner, that the persons referred to belonged to his party, and there was no objection to their knowing whatever might be communicated to him. Certainly the legitimate and natural conclusion from this remark of Mr.
"Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation." 2 Henry VI. That night after twelve o'clock Mary Garth relieved the watch in Mr. Featherstone's room, and sat there alone through the small hours. She often chose this task, in which she found some pleasure, notwithstanding the old man's testiness whenever he demanded her attentions.
Cameron replied, with some little testiness of manner, that the persons referred to belonged to his party, and there was no objection to their knowing whatever might be communicated to him. Certainly the legitimate and natural conclusion from this remark of Mr.
"More brilliant than ever," answered she. "He is a great actor, Citoyenne." A shade of annoyance crossed her face. "Why do you always address me as Citoyenne?" she asked, with some testiness. He turned at last and looked at her a moment. "We live in a censorious world, Citoyenne," he answered gravely. She tossed her head with an exclamation of impatience. "We live in a free world, Citizen.
He stuck his hands into his pockets and descended the staircase. When he was five or six steps above them, he spoke. "Just sit down here," he said, with a gesture of one hand, and sat down himself upon the stairs. "DO sit down," he said with a sudden testiness as they continued standing. "I know all about this affair. Do please sit down and let us talk.... Everybody's gone to bed long ago."
His manly character, moreover, though it was occasionally hid under a sailor's brusque testiness, disposed him to appreciate manliness in others, and to be sympathetic towards those whose aims were high and whose motives were good.
Who?" she returned, staring, and I realised that she was too short-sighted to make out the identity of the advancing figure from that distance. "Who is it?" she repeated with a hint of testiness. I had seen by then that I had inadvertently given myself away, and I had not the wit to escape from the dilemma. "I don't know," I said, hopelessly embarrassed.
In view of Cromer's alleged testiness, I may record a very striking "contraindication." During the year and a half or nearly two years in which he wrote a review every week in The Spectator on some important book, I never had any difficulties with him whatever. He was, with the possible exception of my cousin, Lytton Strachey, the best reviewer I ever had.
Pros thrust out a long, lean arm, and fingered the sleeve upon it. "Nor my own clothes, I reckon," he assented with a sort of rueful testiness; "but to the best of my knowin' and believin', I never in my life before saw this shirt I'm wearin' every garment I've got on is a plumb stranger to me, Johnnie. Ye say I played checkers with him and "
"Did you know anything of this place and these these people before you came?" "Certainly of course I did," he returned, with the sudden testiness of disturbed abstraction. "What are you thinking of? I knew the geological strata and the the report of Fairfax and his partners before I consented to take charge of the works. And I can tell you that there is a fortune here.
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