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"I don't care," said Valeria discontentedly. "I never supposed that one could be tied hand and foot, in this way. I should never stand it. It is intolerable!" "These are what you have frequently commended to me as 'home ties," said Hadria. "Oh, but it is impossible!" "You attack the family!" cried the Professor. "If the family makes itself ridiculous ?" The Professor and Hadria laughed.
Alfred could give no explanation; "it just came of itself. But naturally I don't tell them that I'm poor! No, you'd better leave it alone it'll never succeed with you!" "Why do you sit there and pinch your upper lip?" asked Pelle discontentedly. "Pinch? You goat, I'm stroking my moustache!" On Saturday afternoon Pelle was busily sweeping the street.
'He isn't like other children; he's of a finer make, said David, laughing at his own folly, but more than half sincere in it all the same. Lucy laughed too, and was appeased. She bent down to look at him, confessed that he was pale, and that she had better not take him lest there should be catastrophes. 'Well, then, I must go alone, she said, turning away discontentedly.
He could leave it. She didn't know, they hadn't said. He could leave it. No, she didn't know. The collector would discontentedly depart, and instantly Mary Lou or Georgie, or perhaps both, would hang over the railing in the upper hall. "Lizzie, who was it?" they would call down softly, impatient and excited, as Lizzie dragged her way upstairs. "Who was it, Mary Lou?" "Why, how do I know?"
"You don't mean to say you go about with such things OPENLY?" she said querulously. "Yes; one mustn't lose a chance of trade, you know," he resumed with a smile. "And you haven't found this journey very profitable," she said dryly. "You certainly are devoted to your business!" After a pause, discontentedly: "It's quite night already we can't sit here in the dark."
If one looks up any word in the Oxford Dictionary, one will be almost distressed to see how various the significations are to which it is authoritatively susceptible. A word seems to behave like an animal that goes skirting about discontentedly, in search of a more congenial habitation.
And discontentedly and lingeringly the gallant captain, followed by Puddock, withdrew himself pausing to caress the wolf-dog at the corner of the court-yard, and loitering as long as it was decent in the avenue. All this time Miss Gertrude Chattesworth, like her more mature relative, was in the quiet precincts of her chamber.
"How perfectly elegant!" Van drummed on the carriage window discontentedly. "I could have taken one if I'd had the mind to." "Hoh-oh!" shouted Percy over in his corner. "Well, you didn't have the mind; that's what was wanting." "You keep still," cried Van, flaming up, and whirling away from his window. "You didn't take any, either.
Time presses." "Very well, sir; I will make haste," answered the clerk, discontentedly, as he followed his master, who hurried back into the room where he had left Rodin, Gabriel, and Father d'Aigrigny. During this time, Samuel, ascending the steps, had reached the door, now disencumbered of the stone, iron, and lead with which it had been blocked up.
Discontentedly she returned to her bed; she could not join the others down there yet. Where could Marion be! When Marion came, she had to tell her story. How did he look as he rode away? How did he take leave of father? Of course Marion had not seen the things that really counted, but she brought a message. "But absolutely word for word, please," Billy admonished her.
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