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He was not inclined for argument. He had rapidly made his mind up, believing it was the only course open to him. He must go away with his wife, and so leave the house in peace. Saying something to that effect, he quitted the room, leaving Sibylla sobbing; fractiously on the pillow of the chair. He went down to the drawing-room. He did not care where he went, or what became of him.
How am I to know which box Benoite has put them in?" "Never mind looking for the combs now," he answered. "You will have time to search for things to-morrow. Your hair looks nice without combs. I think nicer than with them." "But I wanted to wear them," she fractiously answered. "It is all your fault! You should not have forced me to discharge Benoite."
No word on the subject had reached the old man's outer ears; but as Katty struggled slowly and fractiously towards convalescence, it became clearer in his mind that unless something happened, she must, when well enough to be moved, seek change of air away at the big House.
In book and play the heavenly child simply happened; no one felt miserably sick, ferociously irritable, or despairingly weary because of its coming. There had been no part of her education which had warned her of natural contingencies. She now saw that for her blessing she must pay, and pay heavily maybe, with her body. She argued with herself a little fractiously on the escape of men.
And it seemed as though the dear, obedient girl had come at his bidding, for, as he turned back into the room again, Melissa was standing in the open door. After the pretty Greek greeting, "Joy be with you," which she faintly answered, he asked her, as fractiously as though he had spent hours of anxiety, where she had been so long.
Brilliana condescended approval. "He amends his plea," she noted to Halfman. Master Paul went on, fractiously, "But that does not make me love to be plundered." Brilliana rose and, resting the tips of her fingers on the table, addressed Master Hungerford sternly. "Master Hungerford, one of two things.
Anne came in then and looked solicitously at the guttered candles of which one was left with a winding-sheet, like a tipsy host that had drunk the rest under the table, and appeared to be comforting the others for having made such a spectacle of themselves to no purpose. Lydia was so sleepy now that there seemed to be several Annes and she heard herself saying fractiously: "Oh, let's go to bed."
Lucy was downstairs in the drawing-room at the piano. They could hear the faint echo of her soft playing as they sat there in silence. Sibylla was in no humour to talk: she had repulsed Decima rudely or it may rather be said fractiously when the latter had ventured on conversation. Lady Verner had gone out to dinner.
"Well, yes, there is a great deal in that," says Julia, which innocent remark incenses Dulce to the last degree, as it gives her the impression that Julia is taking Roger's part against her. "I daresay she is an angel," she says, fractiously; "but I am not sufficiently heavenly-minded myself to admire her inanities.
"It is an inspiration," he said excitedly more than once. "The rose of the world that can only be reached by love or hate holding the clue." He had promised an American who had bought a picture of his the year before that he would do some work for him in Venice in the spring. "Very rash of me," he said fractiously.
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