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A moment later an automatic elevator took her to a lower floor, where she was greeted by a person whom Billie assumed to be a head nurse. "Anything out of the ordinary, surgeon?" "No," with a bruskness which was startling by comparison with her cheeriness upstairs. "I understand that Dr. Norbith wishes to go home as soon as possible?" "Yes." "He may go as soon as the cast is hard.
"Oh, hullo, Chess," Helen said coolly as she stepped ashore, refusing his assistance. "Where are the girls?" "There they are waiting for you on the porch," he said, rather subdued it would seem by her bruskness. Helen started directly for the wide veranda of the villa-like house that topped the higher part of the island.
Bazalgette, attracted by the bruskness of his entry. "Yes, there is," said David sternly. Lucy looked up. "Miss Fountain's old nurse has been sitting in the hall more than half an hour, and nobody has had the politeness to go near her." "Oh, is that all? Well, don't look daggers at me. There is Lucy; give her a lesson in good-breeding, Mr. Dodd."
"We took it together, sir, your kind lady and I, we both pledged ourselves never to touch a drop of liquor between meals whatever the occasion." "Quite right!" said Dion, with firmness, almost with bruskness. "I'm glad you think so, sir. But a verger can't be too careful.
It suddenly seemed to Claire as if everything was all right again. Winn was there for her, just as he had been on the Schatz Alp; his eyes looked the same, and the intentional bruskness which he put into his voice was quite insufficient to hide its eagerness. "Oh," she said, "Major Staines, I didn't mean to tell anybody, but I shall tell you of course. It's rather sickening, isn't it?
Dale, if by my bruskness and apparent lack of consideration I put you to a little test. But it seemed necessary. You see, as to Rodhaven, the gravamen of their charge against you " "Charge!" Dale's voice had dropped to a whisper. "Do they lodge a charge against me, sir in spite of my record?"
"Tell him no," said Sam shortly, and hung up the receiver; then he repented of his bluntness and spent five precious minutes in recalling his brother and apologizing for his bruskness, explaining that Princeman was probably trying to plan another attempt to pool the stock. In the meantime Theophilus Stevens had stood surveying his daughter in contrition.
He was totally unaware of the bruskness of such a question asked of a woman whom he had never seen before. "One pities a thoroughly good fellow who does a thoroughly foolish thing. It was a very, very foolish thing to do to attack Cynthia." "I was in court during part of the trial." "Well, then, you know how foolish it was. Some people can't be attacked with impunity."
For sooner would one have asked his future of the scowling Parques than venture to invoke a hint thereof from that furrow-browed being from the Land of Bruskness. Meanwhile, as if it had been thus planned to give me such opportunity, I stood at the very vortex of canal interest and fame, with nearly an entire day before the evening train should carry me back to Corozal.
Clinton spoke rapidly, with his wonted bruskness: "Guess you know I've been knocking about the country for the last three or four weeks saw a good many old friends a fellow can't go anywhere without meeting somebody he knows curious, isn't it? Well, I've got an opening for you.
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