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It occurred to me, from what he said, that he has not quite the right idea as to my aspirations, as to the place I desire to fill in life. I shall try to give him an opportunity to form a saner judgment." "It will give me the utmost pleasure to accept it," the detective confessed, with ill-concealed acerbity. Jocelyn Thew sighed lightly.
His muscles were rippling smoothly and sleekly under his spare, healthy flesh he had an absurd desire to bound along the street, to run dodging among trees, to tarn "cart-wheels" over soft grass. It was not crisp, but in the air lay a faint suggestion of acerbity, inspirational rather than chilling. "The moon is down I have not heard the clock!"
"And, as they were marked strictly private, I respect, of course, the seal of confidence. That's all I wish to say. I hold it a duty, being intrusted with such powers, not to use them in a manner which may annoy or incommode my fellow-creatures." "Your feeling does you honour," Sir Charles answered, with some acerbity.
The question had become raspingly monotonous to me, whom he addressed, and I replied with marked acerbity: "Because we are the Northern mudsills whom you affect to despise, and we came down here to lick you into respecting us." The answer seemed to tickle him, a pleasanter light came into his sinister gray eyes, he laughed lightly, and bade us a kindly good day.
But during his four years of service Alaric had contrived to smooth down any acerbity which had existed on this score; either the paper on the strike-bushel, or his own general intelligence, or perhaps a certain amount of flattery which he threw into his daily intercourse with the chief clerk, had been efficacious, and when Sir Gregory was called upon to select a man to take with him to his new temporary office, he selected Alaric Tudor.
"That's the pantry," he said, untruthfully. The visitor rose and tried the handle. The door was locked, and she looked doubtfully at the mate. "I suppose that's a leg of mutton I can hear asleep in there," she said, with acerbity. "You can suppose what you like," said the mate, testily; "why don't you go away? I'm surprised at you."
It is well known that great scholars who have shown the most pitiless acerbity in their criticism of other men's scholarship have yet been of a relenting and indulgent temper in private life; and I have heard of a learned man meekly rocking the twins in the cradle with his left hand, while with his right he inflicted the most lacerating sarcasms on an opponent who had betrayed a brutal ignorance of Hebrew.
He perceived in Bonaparte a kind of acerbity and bitter irony, of which he long endeavoured to discover the cause. I accompanied him in a carriole as far as Nogent Sur Seine, whence the coach was to start. We parted with regret, and we did not meet again till the year 1792.
"And now," said Pepper, speaking with great cheerfulness, "it's me that's got to have the broken heart. Well, well." "It's a most interesting case," cried Miss Winthrop; "and, if you wait till I fetch my camera, I'll take your portrait together just as you are." "Do," said Mrs. Pepper cordially. "I won't have my portrait took," said the captain, with much acerbity.
But she could not see how he felt, for he kept his face averted from her inquiring gaze. Kapus Irma greeted her future son-in-law with obvious acerbity. "I hear you have been teasing Elsa again," she said crossly. "Why can't you let her enjoy herself just for to-night, without interfering with her?" "Oh! I am not going to interfere with her," he replied, with a sneer.
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