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Ellen knew not what to answer; and, ere she could attempt it, the other female prevented her. "Sister Butler is wandering in her mind," she said, "and speaks of one she will never behold again. The sight of strangers disturbs her, and you see we have nothing here to offer you." The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true.
That means that I am ungracious not to congratulate myself on having you all so much nearer to me; but I do not in the least. I cannot bear to think of you as living anywhere but here at Allington. Dales will be out of their place in a street at Guestwick." "That's hard upon the Dales, too." "It is hard upon them. It's a sort of offshoot from that very tyrannical law of noblesse oblige.
"Thanks, Miss Leicester," said Everard, warmly; "I can't tell you how much how very much obliged I am." "I should not imagine that such a very ungracious compliance called for such excessive thanks," said Grace, sarcastically. "Don't be ill-natured, Gracie," returned her brother, laughing; "you don't know how glad I am."
"And now," concluded the pastor, hoping he had found one to relieve him of his dreaded and ungracious task, "don't you think that I or rather you as so old a friend, should speak frankly to Miss Clavering herself?" "No, indeed," said the Provencal, quickly; "if we spoke to her, she would disbelieve us.
‘What can induce you to come so soon?’ exclaimed his lady, with a most ungracious air of dissatisfaction. ‘You know I never drink, Annabella,’ replied he seriously. ‘Well, but you might stay with them a little: it looks so silly to be always dangling after the women; I wonder you can!’
He left the room; and Zoe indulged in a hearty cry, but hastily dried her eyes, and turned her back toward the door, as she heard his step approaching again. He just looked in, saying, "Zoe, I am going to drive over to Roselands for Ella: will you go along?" "No. I've been lectured enough for one day," was her ungracious rejoinder; and he closed the door, and went away.
Venetia, indeed, did not share these feelings fully, but she thought it ungracious to anticipate her mother in the announcement.
"Oh! as to that," cried Trevanion, hastily, "if it be a matter of charity, I put my purse in your hands; but don't put my manuscript in his! If it be a matter of business, it is another affair; and I must judge of his work before I can say how much it is worth, perhaps nothing!" So ungracious was this excellent man in his very virtues!
The English foot, in such order as they could keep on treacherous and uneven ground, made their way, sinking deep in mud at every step, to the Irish works. But those works were defended with a resolution such as extorted some words of ungracious eulogy even from men who entertained the strongest prejudices against the Celtic race. Again and again the assailants were driven back.
For as the present marched steadily upon the future, devouring as it went; as the departure this future contained took on the shape of a fact, the countless details of which called for attention, it began to be accepted as even the most unpalatable facts in the long run usually are, with an ungracious resignation in face of the inevitable.
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