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Hence the anxiety to keep him from annoyance showed not quite the ardour that would have animated it in former days. "Suppose we make inquiration into it, Christopher," continued Longways; "and if we find there's really anything in it, drop a letter to them most concerned, and advise 'em to keep out of the way?"
For some minutes he abandoned himself to the satisfaction of a man whose escape has been narrow but complete. Eventually, however, his brows drew together with an annoyance which had strayed into his thoughts and poisoned them. He had handled the situation ineptly and expensively. He had given his young wife carte blanche to do what she chose with his old house.
What on earth did you get me a Gieve waistcoat for? 'How do you know you won't be going to Mesopotamia? 'Well, I don't know; but I don't somehow think it's very likely. They get their drafts from Egypt, and there's lots of artillery there. Pamela remembered with annoyance that Miss Bremerton had gently hinted the same thing when the Gieve waistcoat had been unpacked in her presence.
Rigorous measures were needed to keep the Indians in check, but the command from England not to offend the savages was so strict that Smith dared not chastise them as they deserved. The history of the colony all this spring of 1608 is one of labor and discontent, of constant annoyance from the Indians, and expectations of attacks.
He protested, on the contrary, that his annoyance with him had partly proceeded from the slight acquaintance he had acquired of his policy, and that, while boasting to be better informed than any one, he was in the habit of inventing and imagining things in order to get credit for himself.
The party was not yet complete, and he felt a movement of annoyance when he recognized, in the last person to join it, a Russian lady of cosmopolitan notoriety whom he had run across in his unmarried days, and as to whom he had already warned Undine.
"Ah," she thought sentimentally, leaning back in her reclining chair, "how charming is youth with plenty of money!" She was roused from these luxurious meditations by the appearance of Sarah, bearing a card on a salver. "A man!" she exclaimed with annoyance. "I'm not dressed." Lifting the card, she read it with a start. "Mr. Nathan Wycliffe Bonnell."
"I'll come whenever I choose to," said Frederick. Franck, rising without the least air of haste or confusion, greeted Frederick with perfect cordiality and walked to the door. "I don't want to disturb you. Good evening, Doctor von Kammacher," he said with a grin betraying some delight in Frederick's annoyance. "Rigo!" Ingigerd called after him. "You promised to come again to-morrow morning."
For once even she felt something like the pang of a mother. "You're dreadfully thin, Kitty!" Kitty frowned with annoyance. "It's not my fault," she said, pettishly. "I live on cream, and it's no good. Of course, I know I'm an object and a scarecrow; but I'd rather people didn't tell me." "What nonsense, chére enfant! You're much prettier than you ever were."
The Diana was kept accordingly on her course; still, not free from suspicion, we narrowly watched the stranger's movements. I was looking in another direction, when I heard Tony utter a loud exclamation, not complimentary to the French, and looking round, when it was now too late to escape from her power, what was my annoyance to see the hated tricolour flying from the stranger's peak!
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