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Updated: May 27, 2025
And they keep flying back and forth, saying the same things over, and over, and over, and over.... On the top of a palm tree, in an oasis of the Arabian desert, sat the Phoenix, glowering moodily upon the world below.
The young man had thrust his hands deep in his trousers' pockets and was glowering at the dough on the molding board. "That's rotten nonsense, mother," he burst out. "Do you suppose, if a man's really in love with a girl, he's going to care a cotton hat about the way her brother treats him? You don't know much about men if you think so. No; you're on the wrong track. It wasn't my fault."
There was nothing left for her to do. Slowly, fearfully, he raised his eyes until she came within the range of their vision, first to her shoes, then to her stockings, her skirt, gaudy jacket and at last met her eyes, which were smiling at him saucily over the rosebud which she was holding to her lips. But he only sat glowering stupidly at her. "O Philidor!" she cried.
But the glowering, vacillating looks he received here and there succeeded in impressing him only with the extent of his responsibility. Success in this, his grandest effort, assumed monstrous proportions. He dare not fail. Present and future demanded that.
Mama Thérèse did not respond, she offered no objection when Dupont took up the sheet of paper that lay between them, but ground the heels of her hands into her fat cheeks and sat glowering vindictively while he read aloud, slowly, with the labour of one to whom reading is unaccustomed dissipation: DEAR MADAM: Herewith we beg to enclose our cheque to your order in the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, being the quarterly payment in advance due you from the estate of our deceased client, the Princess Sofia Vassilyevski, for your care of her daughter.
Ne'er a thought had he, as he flounced through the churchyard, of the train of powder he dribbled behind him: but all the way he blew off steam, cursing Parson Polwhele and the whole cloth from Land's End to Johnny Groats, and glowering at the very gates by the road as though he wanted to kick 'em to relieve his feelings.
"Speak up, I canna hear," he said, in tones mild compared with those last wild words. "I I'm Maggie Moore," the girl quavered. "Moore! Maggie Moore, d'ye say?" he cried, half rising from his chair, a flush of color sweeping across his face, "the dochter o' James Moore?" He paused for an answer, glowering at her; and she shrank, trembling, against the door. The little man leant back in his chair.
I don't care a damn how many congressmen dance to your tune, you're not big enough to move even one trooper out of my barracks, sir! That's all I've got to say to you." Chadron stood a little while, glowering at the colonel. It enraged him to be blocked in that manner by a small and inconsequential man.
If you weren't so damned selfish, you'd let me go. I hate a selfish woman!" Then it was that Jim Dodge, pressing closer to the long window, heard her say quite distinctly: "Very well, father; we will go. Only I must go with you.... You are not strong enough to go alone. We will go anywhere you like." Andrew Bolton got nimbly out of his chair and stood glowering at her across its back.
Bobby slipped quickly past several of these isolated groups, indifferent to the dark and glowering looks of suspicion that were cast at his tall, muscular figure with the firm step and the defiant walk that was vaguely reminiscent of the British troops that had been in Paris last year at the time of the foreign occupation.
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