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He was positively characterless, so Beryl Denvers told herself a dozen times a day. How could she possibly marry any one so neutral? And yet in his amiable, exasperatingly placid fashion he had for some time been laying siege to her affections.
Indeed the ability to knock the two boxes over simultaneously was found to be so difficult as to be exasperatingly fascinating, and as a result of their repeated and abortive efforts I made money quickly. The table was kept going hard the whole day, by the end of which I found I had raked in several pounds in nimble pennies.
"You'd better talk." He was exasperatingly silent. "Enough!" exploded Carter. "He can explain when we get to port. Meanwhile I'll put him where he'll do no more harm. Gregg, lock him in the cage." We ignored his violent protestations. The cage in the old days of sea vessels on Earth, they called it the brig was the ship's jail.
"Yes, I've missed our bouts, Everett." "You've been exasperatingly conservative with your time lately!" complained Everett. "A fellow can't get sight of you unless your nose is poked in a book or you're in court!" Horace laughed. "Really, I've been awfully busy since " "Since the coming of your wonderful charges!" finished Brimbecomb. Horace scented a sneer. His ears grew hot with anger.
Adams himself, who had set his heart on seeing Hay close his career by making peace in the East, could only urge that vanity for vanity, the crown of peacemaker was worth the cross of martyrdom; but the cross was full in sight, while the crown was still uncertain. Adams found his formula for Russian inertia exasperatingly correct.
"Love?" she laughed exasperatingly. "Yes," he said. "Not that much!" She snapped her fingers. "But" in a changed tone "I should like to like you. I shall be very disgusted if your concerts are not a tremendous success. And they will not be if you don't keep control over yourself and practise properly. And it will be your fault."
It is quite possible for an individual to be habitually and exasperatingly late, with all the air and innocence of unusual punctuality. It would strike us as absurd to see a man painting a house the color he did not like, and go on painting it the same color, to show others and himself that which he detested.
"Our kinsman is going back to Somasco very shortly, and then on into the ranges. I wish he could be prevented," he said. The girl laughed a little. "I think it would be difficult to prevent Mr. Alton doing anything he had decided on." "Yes," said Deringham. "He can be exasperatingly obstinate, but and I put it frankly he might listen to you.
"It tasted good," continued Dancing exasperatingly. "But the night was awfully cold, so they built a big camp-fire near the curve. The freight engineer saw the fire and thought it was a locomotive head-light. Then he remembered he had run past his meeting point. He stopped his train to find out what the fire was.
He is frequently a man of character, but through that character runs this strange, irritating thread of conceit, which blinds our eyes to whatever of real worth may be within, because of his exasperatingly confident exterior. We should brush him aside as carelessly as if he were a fly should there be nothing to him worth hating.
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