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"Sire," said Trenta Capelli, "we are the faithful subjects of King Ferdinand, and we come to fight you, and not to bear you company. Give yourself up, if you would prevent bloodshed." Murat looked at the captain with an expression which it would be impossible to describe; then without deigning to answer, he signed to Cagelli to move away, while his other hand went to his pistol.
On the south-east frontier of Huronia, about four miles from Orillia, stood a town of the clan of the Rock, Contarea, a 'main bulwark of the country. The inhabitants were pagans who had resisted the missionaries, and refused them permission to build a chapel, not even deigning to listen to their appeals.
Without deigning another glance at her victim, she turned away and went to meet Milo. He now entered with his slaves. "Where are the two strangers?" she demanded harshly. Milo returned her stare with a look of simple surprise. He had seen nothing of them, and had thought of them being yet with his mistress. "I saw them not, Sultana," he replied.
"Come, Dirck, I'm satisfied let us go; we have kept Mother Doorichaise long enough, and I heard some visiters come in, just now. Thank you, mother thank you, with all my heart; I think there must be some truth in this fortin-tellin' after all!" Jason now arose, and walked out of the house, without even deigning to look at us and consequently without our being recognised.
The girl laughed again with the satisfaction of her sex in cornering a man. Beaton made a show of not deigning to reply, and put himself in the pose she suggested, frowning. "Ah, that's it. But a little more animation "'As when a great thought strikes along the brain, And flushes all the cheek." She put her forehead down on the back of her hand and laughed again. "You ought to be photographed.
You have all full leave to laugh at my folly; I really don't know how to excuse myself. See, the little one has pulled my star from the chain. But I think, my brother, you will give me a new one to-day if I should hit the bull's eye. Shall I shoot first, or will you begin, my Sovereign?" "Give him the bow, Prexaspes," said Cambyses, not even deigning to look at his brother.
And yet this Reginald, whom a very few words from me softened at once into the utmost submission, and rendered more tractable, more attached, more devoted than ever, would have left me in the first angry swelling of his proud heart without deigning to seek an explanation.
At such an extraordinary and unceremonious demand the knight flushed angrily, frowned, made an expressive gesture with his lips and his nose which suggestively indicated that there was something offensive in the air between the wind and his gentility, ending the pantomime by finding a pass and handing it over to his "nigger," then not deigning to speak motioned him and it to the threatening figure.
And there was Rafael, unaware of the storm that was gathering about his head, no longer deigning even to speak to Remedios, or look at her, as with her head bowed like a sulky goat, she went around stifling her tears at the memory of those happy strolls in the orchard under doña Bernarda's surveillance. The deputy had eyes for nothing outside of the Blue House; his happiness had blinded him.
Methinks it is the test of Gothic sublimity to overpower the ridiculous without deigning to hide it; and these grotesque monuments of the last century answer a similar purpose with the grinning faces which, the old architects scattered among their most solemn conceptions. Close at my elbow was the pedestal of Canning's statue.
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