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He fought doggedly against this sensation. He tried to assume the attitude of a philosopher observing humanity, of a spider watching flies; he tried to be critical, cold, aloof. He listened as one set apart, and answered in monosyllables. But despite his own volition the monosyllables were accompanied by a smile that destroyed the effect of their curtness.
"No," he said, honestly and without embellishment. The curtness of the answer might have displeased another woman. Eve seemed to take no offence. "I had a talk with the Fraides to-day," she said "A long talk. Mr. Fraide said great things of you things I wouldn't have believed from anybody but Mr. Fraide." She altered her position and looked from Loder's face back into the fire.
By comparison, then, the enjoyment of others is brutish; they have not the soul for it; but he is worthy of the wine, as are poets of Beauty. In truth, these should be severally apportioned to them, scholar and poet, as his own good thing. Let it be so. Meanwhile Dr. Middleton sipped. After the departure of the ladies, Sir Willoughby had practised a studied curtness upon Vernon and Horace.
This, he recognized, was a man who could be content with essential things, and in all probability had at one time esteemed himself fortunate when he succeeded in obtaining them. "Hadn't I better help him load them up?" he asked. "No," said Stirling, with a curtness at which Weston could not take offense. "He can put in the evening that way if it's necessary.
The young man had been alarmed at his stern old uncle's curtness, on the return trip from Allahabad, his strange manner and his grim silence. But he was simply astounded when his nabob relative quietly said: "I have obtained a six months' leave of absence for you! Let no one know of your movements. Leave your rooms and baggage just as they are.
Duchesne's gravity seemed to give that significance to this symptom, and his cross-questioning of the patient was characterized by more than his usual curtness. "You are sure you don't remember walking in the garden before you were ill?" he said. "Come, think again. You must remember that." The old man's eyes wandered restlessly around the room, but he answered by a negative shake of his head.
Bea would never let a little thing like a husband stand in the way of her progress." In March, just as Steve was returning, Beatrice and her aunt departed for a whirl in Florida, with a laconic invitation that Steve and his father-in-law follow them. Steve declined the invitation with alarming curtness.
She turned away, leaving me to take my candlestick from the table in the hall; but before we separated, thinking it apparently a good occasion to let me know once for all since I was beginning, it would seem, to be quite "thick" with my host that there was no fitness in my appealing to her for sympathy in such a case; before we separated, I say, she remarked to me with her quick fine well-bred inveterate curtness: "I daresay you attribute to me ideas I haven't got.
All the same, Bullard on going out, after Flitch's breakfast, to enjoy his own elsewhere, locked the latter into the bedroom, which was on the third floor. First of all he despatched to Lancaster a telegram brutal in its curtness: "Alan Craig is at Grey House."
Come in and set by the stove," and she resumed her work in the pantry without another word. I was not offended at her curtness. These denizens of the forest pass too many hours alone and speak too seldom to understand the value of politeness for politeness' sake. The wife, moreover, redeemed herself the next morning when I found her on the back porch feeding the birds.
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