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But Irgens noticed no more than ever that people admired him when he strolled down the promenade. Gracious! if they enjoyed looking at him, that was their affair. He was frigidly indifferent, as ever. "I must admit you are a foxy fellow!" exclaimed even Norem, the Actor, when he ran across him on the street.
Lionel Woolley, the manager, with his wife May and their children. Mrs. Woolley is compelled to change her white window-curtains once a week because of the smuts. Mr. Woolley, forty-five, rather bald, frigidly suave, positive, egotistic, and pontifical, is a specimen of the man of business who is nothing else but a man of business.
"I am quite aware of the fact," I said somewhat frigidly. In nowise daunted he went on, "Coming back just now I saw the big Nicolo the eccellenza has doubtless seen him often? he is a vine-grower, and they say he is the largest man in Naples three months since he nearly killed his brother ebbene!
The English prime minister listened to their representations frigidly; it was difficult to refute the arguments which were adverse to his own feelings, and to resist the unanimous opinion not only of his colleagues, but of our allies. But he was cold and silent, or made discouraging remarks. "Can you trust him?" he would say.
"The Duke knew." "The Duke is dead," said Michael. "I am aware of that," said the Delegato, frigidly. He bowed for the last time, and left the cell, gently closing the door.
She thought of Camber Sands and the darkness falling over the waste, and, in spite of her self-control and her pity for him, there was an unconquerable feeling of injury in her heart. What reason, what right, had he to greet her so frigidly? How had she injured him? A roar of conversation had begun in the room. Everyone seemed in high spirits. Mrs.
"I must have startled a thief," I added. "You heard a horse was stolen from our neighbour yesterday?" Tyeglev smiled frigidly and lighted his pipe. I sat down beside him. "And do you still believe, Ilya Stepanitch," I said, "that the voice we heard came from those unknown realms...." He stopped me with a peremptory gesture.
"Clem," I said frigidly, "tell me just what you said to Mrs. Lansdale about me." He paltered, shifting on his feet, his brow contracted in perplexity, as if I had propounded some intricate trifle of the higher mathematics. "Huh! Wha what's that yo'-all is a-sayin', Mahstah Majah?" "Stop that, now! I needn't tell you twice what I said. Out with it!"
He deflated his chest, spread his heels, and ceased to draw in his abdomen. "We'd better try this another time, when we're alone," he said, frigidly. "I can't do myself justice." "Why do you want to do yourself justice?" asked Lucille. "Right-o!" said Archie, affably, casting off his forbidding expression like a garment. "Rehearsal postponed.
I could see that he noted this, and that it further angered him. He also laid his hand on his sword now, and frigidly inclined his wigged head toward me. "I had not the honor of addressing you, sir," he said, in a low voice, very much at variance with the expression in his eyes. "I had no wish to exchange words with you, or with any of your sour-faced tribe.
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