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'What a horridly stupid boy he must be, returned Mysie. 'Why, I remember when Jasper once had the 'Talisman' to do, and the big ones were so delighted. Mamma read it out, and I was just old enough to listen. I remembered all about Sir Kenneth and Roswal. 'Tom Sefton's not stupid! said Dolores, in wrath; 'but but the book is stupid and out of date!
Of course I'd not confided these reflections either to Maida or Beechy, for even Maida is unsympathetic about some things, and thinks, or says that she thinks, it is horridly snobbish to care about titles.
The second wife was rather incommoded in her embrace by the baby in her arms, and it squalled horridly the nearer its mother put it to me. The third and youngest wife, who was really very pretty, appeared enchantingly bashful, but what was her bashfulness compared to mine, when compelled for mere form's sake to enfold in my arms a beautiful and naked young woman?
Impetuously the White Linen Nurse scrambled to her own hands and knees and jostled the Little Girl aside. "Fat Father!" screamed the White Linen Nurse. "Fat Father! Fat Father! Fat Father!" she gibed and taunted with the one call she knew that had never yet failed to rouse him. Perceptibly across the Senior Surgeon's horridly quiet shoulders a little twitch wrinkled and was gone again.
The pain had been horridly severe, or I should hardly have noticed its cessation. But now, with my spirits at their lowest and blackest, my head was clear again; not by a gradual recovery, but in one minute. Fanny had spoken no word to me, and I wondered greatly at that. She had only smiled and laughed in a foolish way.
The H. that I mean is an Englishman; now it happens that here and there a word, or some peculiarity in using a word, indicates, in this author, a Scotchman; for instance, the expletive 'just, which so much infests Scotch phraseology, written or spoken, at page 1; elsewhere the word 'short-comings, which, being horridly tabernacular, and such that no gentleman could allow himself to touch it without gloves, it is to be wished that our Scottish brethren would resign, together with 'backslidings, to the use of field preachers.
'Then they've been horridly deceitful about it, for Stella never would be decently civil to him while I was there, and left him last week; and now I suppose they have been meeting all this week and falling in love, said Vava in tones of disgust.
'I did know what he was; but the thought of Charley made me able to go through with it. 'With the sacrifice of his friend to his enemy? 'It was bad. It was horridly wicked. I hate myself for it. But you know I thought it would do you no harm in the end. 'How much did Charley know of it all? I asked. 'Nothing whatever. How could I trust his innocence?
He had been invited, and he had left his young cousins in suspense as to his intentions till the last moment, and then had written to say that he had accepted an invitation to Norfolk, where there would be shooting, and a probability of a stag-hunt on foot. 'Which I call horridly mean of him, protested Horatio, who had come across the fields expressly to announce this fact to Ida.
"Dear old Rady," said Richard, tugging at his hand again, "how glad I am you've come! I don't mind telling you we've been horridly wretched." "Six, seven, eight, nine eggs," was Adrian's comment on a survey of the breakfast-table. "Why wouldn't he write? Why didn't he answer one of my letters? But here you are, so I don't mind now. He wants to see us, does he? We'll go up to-night.
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