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Harry near adoring exigeant, could be an evil; but Harry away, engaged every thought; and if thinking of a person is the first step to love, he ought to have been satisfied with the way Bluebell was employing herself. One evening she was sitting in her bed-room with the window open. There was a light breath of spring in the air though the nights were frosty.
The Captain was not exigeant, and allowed them to run the establishment pretty much as they chose. He always rose late, and went out immediately after breakfast, accompanied by his large Newfoundland dog Nero, the only living possession he had brought with him from beyond the sea. Master and dog were seen no more until dinner-time, which was five o'clock.
Gertrude certainly is not exigeant, and she has a touch of tender gratitude that makes the professor feel continually that he has done a good deed by marrying her, which is a flattering unction to the man's generous soul. March comes in, and the pressing work being done, Floyd turns to the business. It is a success, but he is not any more in love with it.
He swore that he would do anything to make her so. But that anything was not to include any chance of a marriage with himself. In spite of his philosophy and his prayers, Bertram went to bed not in a very happy state of mind. He was a man essentially of a warm and loving heart. He was exigeant, and perhaps even selfish in his love. Most men are so.
This was dutiful on her part, and naturally satisfactory to a husband inclined to be somewhat exigeant. But even duty may pall on an exigeant husband, and a man may be brought to wish that his wife would cross him. But on this occasion Sir Henry had no such pleasure. "I saw Bertram this morning," he said, when he went home for five minutes before taking his seat in the House for the night.
And then that cranky, exigeant colonel, longing to make love to me if I would let him; the stiff dinner parties, tiresome people, spoilt children though I do delight in Harold and Winnie and Gwynne and Dot and baby, too, for that much and 'And your father, quietly suggested Mrs Jones. 'I never thought you would wish me to leave you, Serena. Those happy, useful days!
Could they not see what that would do for them? Why redistribute anything? But, alas, it was too late to go back to so blessed an idea as that! Redistribution they must have. But there should be as little redistribution as possible. Men were sick of it all, and would not be exigeant. Something should be done for overgrown counties; something for new towns which had prospered in brick and mortar.
A pause; then with a new, yet still subdued inflexion of the voice an inflexion which provoked while it pleased me accompanied, too, by a "sourire a la fois fin et timide" in perfect harmony with the tone: "C'est a dire, monsieur sera toujours un peu entete exigeant, volontaire ?" "Have I been so, Frances?" "Mais oui; vous le savez bien." "Have I been nothing else?"
And surely when you recollect the long drudgery at Greek and Latin verses which is required of every highly-educated man, and the high importance which has attached to them for centuries in the opinion of Englishmen, you cannot think that I am too exigeant in asking you for a few sets of English verses.
Between selling oranges and appearing on the stage Sophie seems to have touched bottom for a time in poverty. But her charms as an actress captivated an officer by and by, and she was established as his mistress in a house at Turnham Green. Tiring of her after a time Sophie, it is probable, became exigeant with increased comfort her protector left her with an annuity of L50.
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