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For married we shall be in spite of fate, even if I have to gain her consent with the muzzle of my pistol against her brow." While Lopez was thus chafing and fuming he was accosted by Harry. Harry's position was peculiar, and not particularly enviable. He had been informed that he was a free man, and master of his own actions.
'G d d n! Stanway exclaimed distinctly, with fierce annoyance. He had fallen headlong into the hall, and his silk hat could be heard hopping towards the staircase. 'Pa! 'Milly protested, shocked. John sprang up, fuming, turned the gas on to the full, and rushed back to the doorway. 'Ah! he shouted. 'I knew it was a tramp lying there. Get up. Is the beggar asleep?
"I asked myself: What is this that, ever since earliest years, thou hast been fretting and fuming, and lamenting and self-tormenting, on account of? Foolish soul! What Act of Legislature was there that thou shouldst be Happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. What if thou wert born and predestined not to be Happy, but to be Unhappy!
That message you heard me send went out over what we call the 'phantom circuit." "The phantom circuit?" repeated Brixton, chafing at the delay. "Yes, it seems fantastic at first, I suppose," pursued Kennedy calmly; "but, after all, it is in accordance with the laws of electricity. It's no use fretting and fuming, Mr. Brixton. If Janeff can wait, we'll have to do so, too.
One day, these first weeks of their marriage, because she saw the dreaded signal of the muddy pools under her mother's eyes and the little quivering nerve beneath the temple, she shut him out of her presence for a day and a night, and when he came fuming up every few minutes from the hotel veranda, miserable and fretting, met him at the closed door of her mother's darkened room and was adamant.
But life had lost a fraction of its zip, though he refused to acknowledge it. But Tressa knew it. Idleness was worse than medicine to her father, and for days he had been fuming with impatience for the opening of the last operation, more than a little irritable. She knew it as she watched the smoke breathe more slowly from his lips and the pipe grow cold.
On top of this moodiness a violence of temper, a stewing, cursing, fuming about. A five months' quarrel with his wife.... His love-making had been somewhat curious. Walks with Rachel a whirligig of streets, faces, words. A dance and a flash of words, as if he were exploding into phrases. As if his vocabulary desired to empty itself before Rachel. His garrulity amazed him.
Hurriedly she darted down the last flight of steps and sped across the bright office to the dark veranda, consumed by one fuming, passionate, utterly uncontrollable curiosity to see with her own eyes just what all that wonderful sound looked like! Once outside in the darkness her confusion cleared a little.
"No doubt," said her father. "What else?" "I think I asked him whether he was fond of gardening," said Miss Nugent, slowly. "Yes, I'm sure I did." "You had no business to speak to him at all," said the fuming captain. "I don't quite see how I could help doing so," said his daughter. "You surely don't expect me to be rude to your visitors? Besides, I feel rather sorry for him."
It can only be opened when the ceremony of marriage takes place between " he bowed again to Lady Agnes and this time also to Lambert. "Pine must have been insane," said Garvington, fuming. "He disguises himself as a gypsy, and comes to burgle my house, and makes a silly will which ought to be upset."
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