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I reckon it's about the best reward there is, this side of heaven." The Butterfly Man swallowed this a bit ungraciously. "You've got a devil of a way of twisting things into parables. I'm talking birds and thinking birds, and here you must go and make my birds people! I wasn't thinking about people that is, I wasn't, until you have to go and put the notion into my head. It's not fair.
"I ain't goin' to cook no victuals," the woman explained, not ungraciously, "till I know folks is goin' to eat it." Knowledge of the world had made her justly cautious. She intended to set out a good meal, and she had the true housewife's desire that it should be eaten, that there should be enough of it, and that the guests should like it.
"Well, I can't help it," said Henry ungraciously, trying to move off: but she first required him to tell her what he had said to the younger boys to make them suspect Elizabeth. "Did I?" said Henry, "I am sure I didn't; at least, if I did, I only said Bess peeped everywhere, and was very close. I didn't suspect her, you know." "I should think not!" said Miss Fosbrook indignantly.
"Here's ten dollars," he said. "Take it; it's a wedding present, you know. I never married anybody before." Jack refused the gift a little ungraciously, though his voice trembled in doing so. "Have a drink, then?" said the consul. "No, I thank you, sir," Jack blurted out. Embarrassment in a cloud descended on all three.
"Hello, William!" In these blue eyes there was no malice or mockery. To Joan William was a god-like hero. His very wickedness partook of the divine. "Would you would you like to come an' make a snow man in our garden, William?" she said tentatively. William knit his brows. "I dunno," he said ungraciously. "I was jus' kinder thinkin'."
"So," thought poor Leonard in his simple heart, "so, if I can serve his honour, by keeping off mischievous boys, or letting him know who did the thing, I'm sure it would be a proud day for Mother." Then he began to consider that, however ungraciously Mr.
One would hardly hear it without being lightened in heart; and little Mara gazed at his long, dry, ropy figure, and wrinkled thin face, as a sort of monument of hope; and his uproarious laugh, which Mrs. Kittridge sometimes ungraciously compared to "the crackling of thorns under a pot," seemed to her the most delightful thing in the world. "Mary Jane was a-tellin' me," resumed Mrs.
The latter, whom, independently of any thing else, this interruption of his sleep would have enraged, received his poor dwarf very ungraciously, and ordered an immediate trial. Meanwhile they had dug the full pot out of the ground, and with the spade and cloak full of gold had placed it before the king.
When Esther at first said quite decidedly that nothing would induce her to go on with her story, he felt at once that this was the only thing necessary to his comfort, and made so earnest an appeal that she was forced to relent, though rather ungraciously, with a laughing notice that he must listen very patiently to her sermon as she had listened to his.
Now, I leave it to the unbiassed judgment of posterity to determine if any public man could be more ungraciously treated by his colleagues than I was on this occasion. But, verily, the council had their reward. The divor, Robin Boss, being, as I have recorded, reinstated in office, soon began to play his old tricks.
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