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He thought, in fact, that Daphne was spoiling the dear nondescript old place, and he knew that the neighbourhood thought so too. But he was determined not to anger his wife, and he held his tongue. "I wish, anyway, you wouldn't stick at it so closely," he said discontentedly. "Let's go abroad somewhere for Christmas Nice, or Monte Carlo. I am sure you want a change."
Carew, a little discontentedly, after a silence. And there was another pause before she said, "Where do men get their information, George?" "Papers, dear. And talking, I suppose. They're interested, you know." "Yes, but " little Mrs. Carew burst out resentfully, "I never can make head or tail of the papers!
And in the intensity of her submission to the common lot she saw down the years the end of what had now begun herself lying quiet and blessed, in the last sleep, her dead hand in Marsham's. "Why must we go home?" he said, discontentedly, as he released her. "One turn more! up the avenue! There is light enough yet!"
Warren Hampton, even if she was small to insignificance and blond to towness, thus increasing her resemblance to a naughty little boy, was nevertheless a very important person socially. "I wish I could get up some of your nice, fresh enthusiasm, Robert," she said discontentedly. "Everything seems awfully stupid to me." "That's because you've no imagination, Kitty. Fancy this seeming stupid!"
Mrs White had worn it on that last May morning when she had stood at the gate, and it seemed almost a part of her. When her aunt dropped it carelessly on the ground after her last remark, Lilac picked it up and held it closely to her. "And her Sunday bonnet now," continued Mrs Greenways discontentedly.
Nothing could startle her, make her scold or make her cry. She did not complain, she did not rebel. That first difference of theirs was decisive. Too decisive, thought Willems, discontentedly. It had frightened the soul out of her body apparently. A dismal woman! A damn'd business altogether! What the devil did he want to go and saddle himself. . . . Ah!
Presently, as he stood for a moment turning over some new books on the drawing-room table, Rose came in. She held an armful of blue serge, and, going up to a table in the window, she took from it a little work-case, and was about to vanish again when Langham went up to her. 'You look intolerably busy, he said to her, discontentedly.
I own that I regret the loss of the poetry, but you cannot ask a man to keep on being a poet for you; it is hardly for him to choose; yet I compare rather discontentedly in my own mind such impassioned creations as Searle and the painter in "The Madonna of the Future" with "Daisy Miller," of whose slight, thin personality I also feel the indefinable charm, and of the tragedy of whose innocence I recognize the delicate pathos.
Why he gave a ball on that very evening; and, when madame Ramoski reached his hotel, she found it illuminated. As she had come quite unprepared she was compelled to return as she came, very discontentedly. But to leave madame de Blessac and M. D n, and to talk of my own matters.
I want to visit the homes of men who live in the village that lies below us at the foot of the mountain, to hear stories of the world from which we are shut out, to share as far as it is possible for us in the simple and homely amusements of mortals." "I am willing to go with you," said Clothilde, frowning discontentedly.
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