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But Mr. Butler, if he heard this criticism and it is probable that he did for the wise ones had been restrained by no delicacy of feeling from raising their voices, was in no way discommoded by it. Bugs Butler knew what he was about. Bright eyes were watching him, and he meant to give them a treat. The girls like smooth work.
Then, as the Indians began to tuck in both blankets and fur robes under their heads, completely covering them up, it was a new experience, and one not very pleasant to contemplate. Mr Ross, who was an old traveller in this land, and one who had slept out hundreds of nights in this way, was not at all discommoded by the tucking in. But it was too much for the boys.
Imagine it upon a windy night of winter, when a hundred discommoded passengers are turned out, grumbling, underneath the stars, coughing invalids, and kicking infants, and indignant citizens, scrambling haphazard among tottering trunks, and picking their way from train to train.
The Lhari said, eying him keenly, "You are ill? Or discommoded?" Bart grasped at random for an excuse. "That that stuff the medic made me drink made me feel sort of sick." "You may send for a medical officer after acceleration," said the Lhari expressionlessly. "The summoning bell is at your left." They turned and went out and Bart gulped. Lhari, in person, checking the passenger decks!
Good-night to you both," sez I; an' wid that I wint away, havin' fought wid woman, man and Divil all in the heart av an hour. By the same token I gave Father Victor wan rupee to say a mass for Flahy's soul, me havin' discommoded him by shticking my fist into his systim. 'Your ideas of politeness seem rather large, Mulvaney, I said.
There was in Miss Salmon's letter to Rosalie one paragraph that Rosalie read a second time. She had received the letter when coming in just before dinner. Not at all injured nor in any way discommoded by the hurtling epithets, the terrific underscores intended to be as bludgeons, or the leaping exclamatory notes set there for stabs, she had put the thing away in a drawer and gone down to her meal.
"The beginning of retreat!" cried Napoleon. The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that profound soul masked by marble beamed blindly. The man who had been gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo.
My daughter will be charmed with this. May I sit down by you?" "Oh, do; I shall be glad." "It won't disturb you? I mean, won't dissipate your inspirations?" Tracy laughed and said they were not ethereal enough to be very easily discommoded.
He will not take up more room than he is entitled to while other passengers are discommoded. Nor will he persist in keeping his particular window open when the draught and the cinders therefrom are troublesome or dangerous to other people.
Good-night to you both, sez I; an' wid that I wint away, havin' fought wid woman, man and Divil all in the heart av an hour. By the same token I gave Father Victor wan rupee to say a mass for Flahy's soul, me havin' discommoded him by shticking my fist into his systim." "Your ideas of politeness seem rather large, Mulvaney," I said.
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