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Everyone gave him the mixture of disgusted toleration and amusement given to a spoilt child who kicks his nurse in the park, and pounds his toys to pieces. Marcella never talked about him to anyone; she cut off ungraciously the attempts at sympathetic pumping made by the women at Klondyke. They concluded that she did not feel anything since she never cried out.
"Well, I didn't," snapped Andy ungraciously, and they put it down to the peevishness of invalidism and overlooked the tone. "Chip has given his description in to the sheriff," soothed Weary, "and if he gets off he's sure a good one. And I heard that the sheriff wired down to the San Simon country and told 'em their man was up here. Mama! What bad breaks a man will make when he's on the dodge!
His hand accidentally rested on hers. "You're like ice. I didn't think about you getting cold riding. I'm a mighty thoughtless escort, I'm afraid. Get down and put on a coat, and I'll have a fire in a minute." "I suppose if I must, I must; but I can get off without any help, thank you," Hazel answered ungraciously.
Louis the Fourteenth looked down on his brother King with an air not unlike that with which the Count in Molière's play regards Monsieur Jourdain, just fresh from the mummery of being made a gentleman. Austria exacted large sacrifices in return for her recognition, and at last gave it ungraciously.
But I want to get you to come over and show me how to tuft my comfort that new pattern you learned in Avonlea, and as it had better be done before dark I wish you'd come right away." "I s'pose I'll go," said Emmeline ungraciously, "but Priscilla shall come, too, for I see that she isn't to be trusted out of my sight after this."
"Why wouldn't you?" he urged, and then she did answer, not ungraciously, but with a shy courtesy: "I didn't feel to." "It would be" he hesitated for a word and found an ineffectual one "nice, if you could talk to her. She wouldn't tell." "I don't," said Tira, still with the same gentle obstinacy, "hold much with talkin'."
Now I think it is not to the little sailor's discredit to confess that he surrendered without terms forthwith. "The thing's yours for when you like to fetch it," he snapped out ungraciously enough, and the missionary at once stooped and cut the grass ropes, and set to chafing his wrists and ankles. "And now," he said, "clear out for your canoe at the river-side for all you're worth, Captain.
"And do you think it pretty in a betrothed bride to refuse her lover's first request so grudgingly, suspiciously, and ungraciously? Nay, nay. If there is the tiniest spark of love for me in your heart, if you do not want to see me reduced to implore Paula for mercy. . . ." "But what is it all about? How can it matter so much to any one whether a gem or a mere plate of gold . . . ?"
The milk-woman, however, not ungraciously granted him the two matches he begged for. On his way to baby, he almost hoped Tommy would not return: he would gladly be saved putting him in the water-but! He forgot him again as he drew near the nursery, and for a long while after he reached it. He found the infant and the dog lying as he had left them.
Ten minutes later Luke Tweezy, frantically quartering the floor of Tom Kane's barn, heard a slight sound and looked up to see Racey Dawson and Swing Tunstall standing in the doorway. "I didn't know you fell down inside the barn," Racey observed. "There's lots you dunno," said Luke, ungraciously. "So there is," assented Racey. "But don't rub it in, Luke. Rubbing it in hurts my feelings.
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