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"When will he be in?" The words came eagerly with the brusk assurance of an immediate answer. The crisp insistence had a decidedly familiar sound. Blair regarded the clean-cut face of the young officer intently as he answered: "I don't know. Will you call again or leave your name?" "I am Mr. Gregory's son." Blair came to meet him with outstretched hands. "I might have known it," he said. "I am Mr.
"I know human nature, miss," said the urchin, pompously; "I have read Miss Edgeworth!!!" He then made an appeal to her candor and good sense. "Now don't you see my friend Mr. Dodd is worth them all put together?" "I can't quite see that." "He is so noble, so kind, so clever." "You must own he is a trifle brusk." "Never.
I mean to play this afternoon; and never again in all my life. Sir, I am resolved." "Oh, if you are resolved, there is no more to be said. I won't run my head against a brick wall." Ina, being half a foreigner, thought this rather brusk. She looked at him askant, and said, quietly, "Others, besides me, can be stubborn, and get their own way, while speaking the language of submission.
Even while they were making for the steps of the sleeping cars, she managed to whisper tremulously to the Princess: "Please don't be angry with Monsieur Poluski. His brusk manner often gets him into trouble. Forgive me for saying it, but your son knows him well, and is very fond of him, and I am sure Felix would do anything that lay in his power to help to help King Alexis III." "My son!
He was big, brusk, quibbling, insulting, dictatorial, painstaking, considerate and kind. He was the most exasperating and lovable man I ever knew. He left a trail of enemies wherever he traveled, and the irony of fate is shown in that he was allowed to die peacefully in his bed.
An ashen shade came over his face, but it passed quickly; his voice sounded brusk. "For months, since a fatal evening all light, brilliancy, beauty! the convict has been trying to hold back the inevitable; but the net whose first meshes were then woven, has since been drawing closer closer. In the world two forces are ever at work, the pursuers and the pursued.
The train stopped, and its contents spilled themselves out a little uncertainly and stiffly on the platform. Instantly the cold caught them, not the insidious, subtle cold of lower worlds, but the fresh, brusk buffet of the Alps. It caught them by the throat and chest, it tingled in ears and noses; there was no menace in it, and no weakness. It was as compulsory as a policeman in a street fight.
"Take this chair, Uncle Rod," said the boy in a voice of brusk indifference. "Excuse me, mother?" He barely waited for her nod and blundered out of the room. The girl came round to Rodney's chair to offer him her hand and drop her curtsy; took a carnation from a bowl on the table and tucked it into his button-hole, slid her arm around his neck and kissed his cheek.
I involuntarily exclaimed, with a glance at the small and curious tent before which he stood guard. "Yes, the doctor," he answered in unexpectedly good English. "And who are you? Have you brought the mail and those medicines I sent for?" "No," I replied with as propitiatory a smile as I could muster up in face of his brusk forbidding expression. "I came on my own errand.
"All right, neighbor," said the voice in the darkness, cheerfully too cheerfully, in fact, Pratt Sanderson thought. An ordinary man even one with the best intentions in the world would have been offended by the Captain's brusk words. A stumbling foot went down the yard.
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