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'I am content to keep mine; and mine is that you are a very unpleasant, odious, disagreeable person. Here she laughed heartily, and seemed to enjoy herself very much. 'Oh, you're a sharp gal! said Mr Jonas. 'She's a regular teaser, an't she, cousin?
I cannot compliment the police of your county for not catching them though. I always felt when riding about, the unpleasant possibility of having a bullet sent through my head."
Instead of preaching about Babylon and Belshazzar, and pouring out his eloquence upon the antediluvians and the glorious company in heaven, he aims every word right at us, and gets so earnest about our daily sins that he really makes one's heart ache. It is unpleasant to listen to such a minister unless one can really forget the world and go with him into his spiritual idea of life.
I haven't asked her. I suppose she is, though." Although it was whispered among Marjorie's close friends that the unpleasant scene at her party had left a yawning gap between the two friends, never, by so much as a word, had Marjorie intimated the true state of affairs to any one except Constance and Jerry Macy. Not even Susan Atwell and Muriel Harding knew just how matters stood.
Alspaugh's torso began to take a fair hold of its appointed work that gentlemen's thoughts became strangely focused upon it, and they succeeded each other as the minutes went by something in this fashion: FIRST TEN MINUTES. "I 'spect that this may become rather unpleasant and bothersome, but it will not be for long, and it'll really do me much good."
They loved the upper spaces of the great forests, and there they lived as some of the water folk live in the lower depths of the great sea. These bird folk hated the open fields and even the lower air, in the thick forests, seemed heavy and unpleasant to them. So they seldom came down from their airy homes in the upper branches of the great trees.
"And you understand that I am making this journey to-night because I am to preach to-morrow morning and there is no other way to keep my appointment." He uttered a laugh which was a most unpleasant sound. "Well," he said, coolly, "I'm damned if I'll take you. I've got you here, and I'm going to keep you here!" I slipped my hand into the satchel in my lap, and it touched my revolver.
In the meantime, by leaving her to herself, he avoided the unpleasant sound and sight of her grief and reproaches. Therefore, in spite of her passionate pleading, he went on. And Pearl, finally realizing that she could hope nothing from him, turned and ran back to the ravine.
The Forge doctor is making himself very unpleasant. He told me the other day that if I persisted in working my charm on many more people he would have me investigated! Just fancy! investigating me! He used to laugh at me; it's got past the laughing stage now. When professional people step on each other's toes the atmosphere is apt to be electric.
Of Dickens's style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules almost as completely as that created by Carlyle. To readers who have taught themselves to regard language, it must therefore be unpleasant.
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