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Updated: June 7, 2025
Last came Lieutenant-Colonel Willoughby de Wing small, brusk and florid acting in command of the 88th Sikh Lancers, and preferring that to any other task this side of heaven or hell; "Nothing to do with politics, my boy, not built that way don't like 'em never understood 'em anyhow. Soldiering's my business." It was well understood it was to be a secret conference.
As if any Panamanian could talk earnestly of anything without waving his arms about him. The telephone-bell rang one afternoon. It was always doing that, twenty-four hours a day; but this time it sounded especially sharp and insistent. In the adjoining room, over the "blotter," snapped the brusk stereotyped nasal reply: "Ancon! Bingham talking!"
She was cool, brusk, hard finished, and, as was evident from Galbraith's manifest satisfaction with her, thoroughly workmanly and competent. Yet she never seemed really to work in rehearsal. She gave no more than a bare outline of what she was going to do. But the outline, in all its salient angles, was perfectly indicated.
He had hurried in and had hurried away and had been curt and brusk and had not told her what was the trouble, so the woman reported. But the child had been sleeping. She was drowsy all that evening while Farr held her in his arms and Etienne sat near by with Zelie Dionne, ministering solicitously. "Her cheeks are not so hot," said the young man many times.
It occurred to me that perhaps he realized that we were the only social godfathers that the Eager Soul had in Europe, and that if he introduced us to Auntie it would be an indication that the affair of the boat, if it was an affair, was to be put upon a social basis! And in two minutes more he had docked Auntie at our pier. A large, brusk, well-groomed, good-looking woman of fifty was Auntie.
"Let's get Willie and the Gem and go somewhere with Wonota. You've all day to hammer at her. Get your continuity and try to get it into Wonota's head that she is deeply and desperately in love with Grand." In spite of Helen's brusk way of speaking, Ruth decided that her idea might be well worth following. Helen took some knitting and a parasol and a hamper.
"You may call it that if you like," replied Tom, a bit coolly, for he did not like the other's tone, "Only, as I say, I cannot accept. I have other plans." "Oh, you " began the brusk treasurer, but Mr. Gale, the president of the Universal Flying Machine Company, stopped his associate with a warning look. "Just a moment, Mr. Swift," begged the president. "Don't be hasty.
Tulliver liked to call the father's attention to Maggie's hair and other unexpected virtues, but he had a brusk reply to give. "I knew well enough what she'd be, before now, it's nothing new to me. But it's a pity she isn't made o' commoner stuff; she'll be thrown away, I doubt, there'll be nobody to marry her as is fit for her." And Maggie's graces of mind and body fed his gloom.
The cordiality with which Morris ushered Miss Smith into the elevator was in striking contrast to the brusk manner in which he greeted Abe half an hour later. "Nu!" he growled. "Where was you now?" "By the steamship office," Abe replied. "I am going next Saturday." "Going next Saturday?" Morris repeated. "Where to?"
"Know you're interested in that Narnay youngster. I've just come from there. I've got to go half way to Bristol to set a feller's leg. They telephoned me. Before I could get there and back that Narnay baby is going to be out of the reach of all my pills and powders." He did not say it harshly; it was Dr. Poole's way to be brusk. "Oh, Doctor! Will it surely die?"
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