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The servants of the castle were as happy in obeying their gentle mistress as in opposing Bertalda's haughty defiance; and in spite of all the rude scolding and threatening of the latter the stone was soon firmly lying over the opening of the fountain. Undine leaned thoughtfully over it, and wrote with her beautiful fingers on its surface.
Of these daring Englishmen, patricians and plebeians together, in two open pinnaces, there were not more than one hundred in number, all told. They soon laid themselves close to the Capitana, far below her lofty sides, and called on Don Hugo to surrender. The answer was, a smile of derision from the haughty Spaniard, as he looked down upon them from what seemed an inaccessible height.
Douglas understood the sneer, but only replied to it by one of those withering looks with which he was accustomed to intimate his mortal resentment. He spoke, however, with haughty composure.
"And 'The Blade' people sent you here?" cried Bert Dodge, in a voice haughty with displeasure. "Perhaps 'The Blade' sent me here," Dick only half admitted. "Sent you here to pry into other people's affairs and secrets," continued young Dodge impetuously. Then added, threateningly: "Don't you dare to print a word about this affair!" Dick looked quietly at young Dodge.
She lifted her head with a motion of haughty defiance that Hamilton well remembered, and stepped forward. "It is I, Hamilton," she said. "I have come to have a few words with you alone, and I shall not leave until " "Come in, by all means," said Hamilton, politely. "You were imprudent to choose such a dark night, for the roads are dangerous.
Also she was to have some amends; my dear godfather, Uncle Christian, with certain other gentlemen of the council, had notified old Tetzel that he was required to crave pardon of Ann and her stepfather for his daughter's haughty and reckless speech.
The haughty woman "that bedizened Niobe" he had contemptuously called her in speaking to Macrinus had appeared to him as an avenging goddess; strangely enough, every time he thought of her, he remembered, too, the consul Vindex and his nephew, whose execution Melissa's intercession had only hastened, and he was vexed now that he had not lent an ear to her entreaties.
I am sorry I cannot oblige you by introducing you myself; but as I did not associate with her when at school, I am still leas inclined to do so at the present time; I hope, however, you may find her an agreeable acquaintance;" and with a haughty manner she swept from his side in quest of companions whose tastes were more congenial. Dr.
Somewhat relieved by these considerations, he entered into an explanation with his friends, spoke of the seaman as a harmless maniac, and succeeded in calming the irritation of their wounded pride. But he could not calm the raging tumult of his own heart he had entered into preliminary engagements for a marriage with the daughter of a house as haughty as his own.
He felt himself urged by a strong temptation to go to that box and open its door and cry out to that man who had not yet given his name to that woman: "You do not know her! She is debauchery and falsehood itself!" It seemed to Vaudrey that at times a bearded face, surmounting a white cravat, appeared behind Rosas and Marianne: the haughty face of Uncle Simon.
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