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"That is just what I want to do fill their stomachs. I don't care about the rest. I'm not responsible for the progress of the world or the good of humanity," said Paul. He rode on in silence; then he burst out again in the curt phraseology of a man whose feeling is stronger than he cares to admit. "I've got no grand ideas about the human race," he said. "A very little contents me.
Here his conduct would be discourteous if there were not a reason for it. He is reserved, unsympathetic, keeps the great man at the staff-end, will not even come out to receive him as common courtesy might have suggested; sends him a curt message of direction, with not a word more than was necessary. And then, naturally enough, the hot soldier begins to explode.
Hang him, that's old Boniface rooting about; what can he want, I wonder? I believe he is looking for me." "Who is Boniface?" meekly asked Edmund. "The landlord, of course; and your friends are with him, too," was the curt reply. Edmund shrank back still further into the shadow of the room. "It would never do for them to see me here," he explained; "it would upset all our plans.
He was beginning to speak of his home to Wilhelm, but the musician made him curt replies and asked him to get his cloak. Belotti now led him courteously into a small room at the side of the great hall, took off his cloak, and then went upstairs.
'You would realize the need if you were in my shoes, said Gwen, 'and felt your debts hanging over your head every minute of the day. I will never rest until I have repaid all that has been lost. 'But that will be impossible, and unnecessary. 'I don't think so, was the curt reply. Gwen was much up in town, sometimes at the British Museum, and she worked away at Mr.
Sancho's curt comments can never fall flat, but they lose half their flavour when transferred from their native Castilian into any other medium. But if foreigners have failed to do justice to the humour of Cervantes, they are no worse than his own countrymen.
He propounded questions to Jorgenson much as a magician would interrogate an evoked shade, or gave him curt directions as one would make use of some marvellous automaton. And that was apparently the way in which Jorgenson preferred to be treated. Lingard's real company on board the Emma was d'Alcacer.
Sir John's leave-taking had been curt and moody, for Angela's offence rankled deep in his mind; and it was as much as he could do to command his anger, even in bidding her good-bye. "Did I not tell you that we live in troubled times, and that no man can foresee the coming evil, or how great our woes and distractions may be?" he asked, with a gloomy triumph.
He was not brilliant, but he was intelligent, progressive and kindly. He knew that his father considered him both stupid and obstinate. There was going to be a strike. The quarrel now was between Anthony's curt "Let them strike," and his own conviction that a strike at this time might lead to even worse things. The men's demands were exorbitant.
Stephen is scaring me most to death; he is wild to go, too. And, oh do you believe it? Captain Lent has gone with Curt to the camp, and Curt means to recommend him for his major.
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