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So now he took from his young hostess's heart the weight that he had put there the previous evening by his mocking and contemptuous manner. He let himself go, spoke after his own manner, and gave up the jesting, playful tone which he always had ready for women. She listened to him with silent attention, no matter what he talked about.
"Is it possible that a rich man like you can be troubled about such a trifling sum, which any one would lend you?" M. de Valorsay interrupted him with a contemptuous sneer. "Didn't you just tell me that we were living in an age when no one has any money except those who are in business? The richest of my friends have only enough for themselves, even if they have enough.
As Considine could elicit no fuller information he bade him a contemptuous farewell and rode away in the direction indicated. He had not gone far when a dark speck became visible on the horizon directly in front. "Ho! Rob," he exclaimed, "that looks like something a bush, is it? If so, we may find water there, who knows eh?
Fyne and the girls were coming nearer, sounding affected in the peace of the passion-laden earth. He began storming at her hastily. "Nonsense! Nobody can . . . Indeed! Pah! You'll have to be shown that somebody can. I can. Nobody . . . " He made a contemptuous hissing noise. "More likely you can't. They have done something to you. Something's crushed your pluck.
He took leave to add himself to the materials for slightly contemptuous amusement that the world had hitherto afforded him, and he found his own absurd actions a very sensible addition to his resources. He realized why people who never act on impulse and never do uncalled-for things are not only dull to others, but suffer boredom themselves.
"None of them worth keeping," was his contemptuous remark as he started off briskly in the direction of the circus lot. For the first time in many days the sun was shining. David announced that he would proceed on his walk toward the distant hills. "Better come along with me," advised Dick, halting abruptly. "The cops will get wind of this. They jerk up a circus man on the slightest excuse.
Charles had granted demand after demand till the very Spaniards lost faith in his concessions. With rage in his heart at the failure of his efforts, he had renewed his betrothal on the very eve of his departure only that he might insult the Infanta by its contemptuous withdrawal as soon as he was safe at home. But to England at large the baser features of his character were still unknown.
From what Mattheson says of Handel on his first arrival in Hamburg, it is quite likely that he was contemptuous of Italian opera music, and it is equally likely that after the success of Almira his views on Italian opera underwent a change.
"Well, if you talk about `warning' me, of course I must insist on having some," said Auntie Clara. Clara jumped up, passed behind Mrs Hamps, making a contemptuous face at those curls as she did so, and ran gracefully down to the kitchen. "Here," she said crossly to Mrs Nixon. "A pot of that gooseberry, please. A small one will do.
However, the pure air playing round me up here, and the magnificent landscape spread beneath my feet, impart a certain serenity to my thoughts which makes me feel a contemptuous pity, both for my suspicions and the cause of them. We speak, first of all, of the order for departure, which may arrive at any moment, for China or for France.
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