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She was afraid Bridget and George would never really get on, though she Nelly wanted to forget all the unpleasantness there had been, to forget everything everything but George. The fortnight's honeymoon lay like a haze of sunlight between her and the past. But Bridget had noticed the voice and the clasped hands, with irritation.
I have taken advantage of this oversight on the part of the police to put you on your guard and find out what had best be done to avoid any unpleasantness." Mariana listened to Paklin to the end. She did not seem alarmed; on the other hand she was quite calm. But something must really be done! She fixed her eyes on Solomin.
Very able man, your husband, but headstrong as the deuce. I'm afraid to speak frankly he'll create a lot of unpleasantness. Might disrupt the company, in fact, if he sticks to the position he took this morning. Thought I'd run in and talk it over with him. Fellow's generally in a good humor, you know, when he's lunched comfortably at home." "I'm quite in the dark," Hazel confessed.
Indeed, just at present I mean the reverse of that. There are some things on which a man must act on his own judgment, irrespectively of the opinions of any one else. 'Not of a mother, Captain Aylmer? 'Yes of a mother. That is to say, a man must do so. With a lady of course it is different. I was very, very sorry that there should have been any unpleasantness at Aylmer Park.
There is no inconsistency in this. Women before now have hidden a soul like a furnace under coldness and unpleasantness, and smothered shrieking nerves under an appearance of apathy. Lucy Snowe is one of them. As far as she goes, Lucy at Bretton is profoundly consistent with Lucy in Villette.
And then, to compensate for all the unpleasantness in her home, there was Maurie Maurie whom every night since that first occasion of their friendship she said good night to. With arms round each other's necks, they said their prayers together Sally who had offered no supplication on her knees since the night when Traill had left her.
Then he sent Hutchings down to the village to let it be known that any one who let William Roper lodge in his or her cottage would at once receive notice to quit it. He thought it improbable, in view of the general unpleasantness of William Roper, that he would be called on to carry out the threat. William Roper had already started to pay his visit to Mr. Flexen. Mr.
It was an innocent tentative at saying something agreeable which might propitiate him. She was beginning to realise that she was continually making efforts to propitiate him. But one of the forms of unpleasantness most enjoyable to him was the snubbing of any gentle effort at palliating his mood.
My complexion and eyes have cleared, and all fulness of the face and the tendency to flushness in the head have disappeared. I experience no fulness and unpleasantness after eating, as I so often did before. I am conscious of a lighter step and a more elastic spring in all my limbs.
Hurry off instantly, and tell Simmonds to bring the Du Vallon here. Leave me to explain everything to Miss Vanrenen. Surely you agree that she ought to be spared the unpleasantness of a wrangle or, shall we say, an exposure? You see," he continued with a trifle more animation, and speaking in French, "the game is not worth the candle.
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