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Thus it was, upon very slight motives, the relations of people in the little world of Chapelizod began to shift and change considerably, and very few persons made a decided move of any sort without affecting or upsetting one or more of his neighbours. Among other persons unexpectedly disturbed just now was our friend Captain Devereux. The letter reached him at night.
Besides, it would be a bad influence for Luke to have such a person as Gay about. We must make a man out of Luke." "Don't go upsetting him. He eats his three good meals a day and always acts like a little gentleman. You'll nag at him until he runs away like my brother Amos did." "Better run away from us than run over us," Mary argued; "but there is no need of planning for Trudy's return.
"I don't care what every body in the village says. I shall always do what I think proper," retorted the young lady; "I know Cousin William does not think so." "Well, I think he does, from some things I have heard him say." "O aunt! what have you heard him say?" said Mary, nearly upsetting a chair in the eagerness with which she turned to her aunt.
Hurling the foe right and left and biting the Claflin quarter-back in the neck, he emerged triumphant from the mêlée. Dodging the enemy's bewildered secondary defence, and upsetting the umpire with a dull thud, our hero dashed down the field. Line after line vanished behind his flying feet. Shod with the wings of Mercury, he sped on and on and still on toward the far-distant goal line.
"In times of peace if a man needs a tonic you give him iron, and it builds him up; but in war if you give the troops iron it bowls 'em down. Look at those Austrians; they've got nervous prostration of the worst sort." "They got too much iron," said Lannes. "Too much tonic is worse than none. A man can stand ten or twenty grains of iron, but forty pounds is rather upsetting."
At last the snaky fingers touched my eyelids as if to close them, and that touch, light though it was, served to snap the taut film of my helpless brain and I gave a blood-curdling yell and jumped up, knocking over the devilish apparatus and nearly upsetting the doctor. "Calm yourself," said Boehm, as he attempted to push me again toward the couch.
"The police do not overwhelm fellows of your kind with politeness." "Fellows?" cried the Count, losing his self-control altogether at being called by the name he had just applied to the porter. Without a moment's hesitation, he sprang from his chair, upsetting it behind him, and took the burly German by the throat.
"I am sure you will pardon me if I very politely ask who you are?" I went on. "That question takes me back to the favour. Will you be so very, very kind as to cease bothering me, Mr. Smart? It is dreadfully upsetting, don't you feeling that at any moment you may rush in and " "I like that. In my own castle, too!" "There is ample room for both of us," she said sharply.
But with whom has the fault been? Certainly not in my department. The fact is, and in this my preface I will not keep the truth back from a discerning public, that no firm on earth, or indeed elsewhere, could be successful in which our Mr. Jones is one of the partners. There is an overweening vanity about that man which is quite upsetting. I confess I have been unable to stand it.
I remarked distinctly, in the looks and manner of the Dauphine, that ridiculous and clumsy animosity which she had taken a fancy to lavish on me. As she was not, in my eyes, so sublime a personage that a lady of quality might not enter into conversation with her, I approached her armchair with the intention of upsetting her haughtiness and pride by compelling her to speak to me before everybody.
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