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She hed on a dress thet made me think of a red-bird, an' her checks minded me right shrewdly of ivy blooms." "Does ye aim ter name hit ter her thet she puts ye in mind of them things?" "I kinderly hed hit in head ter tell her." Suddenly Maggard's frank laugh broke out disconcertingly as he added an inquiry so direct that it caused the other to flush.
And thinking the words of the youth were wise, they used their influence with the Council, and Paul became Assistant Secretary, and after a year or two things began to hum so disconcertingly that General Hankin resigned in order to take the Presidency of the Wellingtonian Defence Association, and almost automatically Paul slipped into his place.
"I have been but I've been in the slums since; in horrible places that the least of those flowers would have lighted up like a lamp." Westy's guarded glance imprudently softened. "It's the beastliest kind of a shame, your ever having had to do such work " "Oh, had to?" she flashed back at him disconcertingly. "It was my choice, you know: there was a time when I couldn't live without it.
Nagel, in Mysterier, is shown as a fool, an eccentric intolerable in ordinary society, though he is disconcertingly human, paradoxically sane. Glahn, in Pan, apologizes for his uncouth straightforwardness by confessing that he is more at home in the woods, where he can say and do what he pleases without offence.
Nance, sympathizing with his thwarted ambition, smiled as she approached; then she caught her breath. The large brown eyes that the child turned upon her were disconcertingly familiar. "Is this Ted?" she asked. He nodded mistrustfully; then after surveying her gravely, evidently thought better of her and volunteered the information that he was waiting for his daddy. "Where is Mrs. Purdy?"
They were on the edge of Christmas, but Christmas this year was, as in the London of so many other years, disconcertingly mild; the still air was soft, the thick light was grey, the great town looked empty, and in the Park, where the grass was green, where the sheep browsed, where the birds multitudinously twittered, the straight walks lent themselves to slowness and the dim vistas to privacy.
Johanna lifted her shortsighted eyes to his face, and looked coolly and disconcertingly at him through her glasses, as if she had just become aware of his presence. "Strange? Why should it?" she asked in an unfriendly tone. "Why, what I mean is, everything must be so different here from what you are accustomed to at least it is from what we are used to in England," he corrected himself.
If your vicinity yields flat stones, they build up even better than the logs unless they happen to be of granite. Granite explodes most disconcertingly. Poles sharpened, driven upright into the ground, and then pressed down to slant over the fireplace, will hold your kettles a suitable height above the blaze. Fuel should be your next thought. A roll of birch bark first of all.
She might be any one of a dozen definable types, or she might more disconcertingly to her companion and more perilously to herself be a shifting and uncrystallized mixture of them all. Her talk, as usual, had promptly reverted to the stage.
While Macgregor grinned miserably, Christina, the stranger, smiled sweetly, if a little disconcertingly. Then the party settled down again to its sober pleasures. Macgregor possessed a fairly clear memory of the same company in a similar situation a dozen years ago, but the only change which now impressed itself upon him was that Mr.
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