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"I would rather win his consent by good services, my lord," replied Wilton, "than drive him to give it by any harsh means." "Pshaw! you are a silly boy," replied the Earl: "there is nothing so tiresome to a man of experience as the false generosity with which young men set out in the world.
Apparently their only interest lay in recalling their earthly troubles. The ghost of the lady unhappily married who had been poisoned, or had her throat cut, who every night for the last five hundred years had visited the chamber where it happened for no other purpose than to scream about it! what a tiresome person she would be to meet!
It's long and tiresome; but still I can do it. Come and see." She led the way to a writing-table in a corner of the room, and sat for awhile with the pen in her hand, thinking. Her irresistible smile broke suddenly like a glow of light over her "Ah!" she exclaimed, "I know how to tell him what I think."
Roger, my dear, you are not eating at all. Is your head still bad?" Her nephew eyed his crêpes Suzettes with disfavour. "Yes, it's rather tiresome. Can't think what causes it. I've had it since last night." Esther shot him a speculative glance. Up till now she had been too deeply absorbed in her own thoughts to observe how heavy-eyed he was, listless and unlike his usual self.
She must find Paul a wife, and she must find some one who would depend upon her, look up to her, obey her, who would, incidentally, take some of the tiresome and monotonous drudgery off her shoulders.
But probably they would not have agreed with him, and probably nations will go on making themselves cruel and tiresome till humanity at last prevails over nationality.
"Oh, no, indeed! I have never played with him; I do not know him; I never play with any boys here. Oh, no, indeed!" "But why not, Ferdy? What! a whole month in this tiresome tent, and not make the acquaintance of your nearest neighbor, such a sturdy, hearty chunk of a fellow as that is? I have no doubt he's good-natured, too, for he's fat and funny, tough and independent.
If I get tiresome, just call 'time, will you?" "All right," she laughed. She was beginning to meet halfway this matter-of-fact, unadorned, friendly manner of his; and when she did meet it, she felt a comfortable security in it. From the beginning to the end of his short narrative he looked straight ahead. "How shall I begin? Do you like fairy tales?
I thought it long and tiresome then, but since you took me to your house, sir, I have remembered many things in it; I knew then that I was come to the house of the Interpreter. You've made me understand, sir!" "I am glad of that, Isy! You see I know some things that make me very glad, and so I want them to make you glad too.
General Gardanne found the capital in a state of confusion; and being able neither to locate the spot nor discover the treasure, returned from his embassy with empty hands. Our stay at Finkenstein became very tiresome; and in order to while away the time, his Majesty sometimes played with his generals and aides-de-camp.
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