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She forced herself to sit down close to him, and waited icily, steeling herself to yield to his demonstrations of affection if he offered them, but he did not. "I've an idea," he said. "I I hope you'll like it. It'll be sort of- -fun. Sort of a game, you know.... While I sat here this afternoon I was thinking about us and how I want to make you happy....We were married suddenly.
Does he tell fortunes by tea-leaves or by the colour of your eyes?" "Laugh away, John Boxer," said Mrs. Gimpson, icily; "but I shouldn't have been alive now if it hadn't ha' been for Mr. Silver's warnings." "Mother stayed in bed for the first ten days in July," explained Mrs. Boxer, "to avoid being bit by a mad dog." "Tchee tchee tchee," said the hapless Mr.
"You don't treat Ellen so; why should you Archie?" Lucy took her foot from the fender, dropped her skirts, and looked at Jane curiously. From underneath the half-closed lids of her eyes there flashed a quick glance of hate a look that always came into Lucy's eyes whenever Jane connected her name with Archie's. "Let us understand each other, sister," she said icily. "I don't dislike the boy.
She was the granddaughter of a certain haughty dame of high degree, who regarded icily this poorest of younger sons, and held her darling aloof. Gregory, very like a blunt unreasoning lover, sought to carry the redoubt by wild assault; and was overwhelmingly routed.
A man must be made comfortable before he will make love to you; and though it is true that if you offered him a choice between Spickgans and kisses, he would say he would take both, yet he would invariably begin with the Spickgans, and allow the kisses to wait." At this I got up, and Irais followed my example. "Your cynicism is disgusting," I said icily.
It is not the mind but the heart that, at such moments, gives to the tongue its noblest eloquence. The prayer that moves Omnipotence to pity, and summons all the hosts of heaven to help, is not the prayer of nicely rounded periods Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null but the prayer of passionate entreaty.
Declaring that more had been lost than gained by the events which occurred at Bayonne, Talleyrand says that on one occasion he icily observed to Napoleon that society would pardon much to a man of the world, but cheating at cards never. If this be true, it was a stinging rebuke and one which touched the heart of the whole matter.
Ordinarily I'd have taken him by the collar and hustled him into the road. And if it had been one of those young bachelors who are coming down to-night, I'd have done it. I like Thomas; and I don't think he kissed you either to affront or to insult you." "Indeed!" icily. "I dare say I stole a kiss or two in my day." "Does mother know it?" "Back in the old country, when I was a lad.
"I mean to say, it won't injure the dishes?" the gentleman continued, with a doubtful smile. "You see, we have filled the main compartment with hot water, as you directed, and put in three hundred pieces of our best crockery." "Mr. Macdougal," said Hawkins icily, "if one dish is broken, I'll pay for it and make you a present of the machine, if you say so.
He had more to say, but Marcia's scorn interrupted him. Galen chuckled. "Rome! He cares only for Bultius Livius. It is now or never, Pertinax!" Marcia's intense emotion made her appear icily indifferent, but she did not deceive Galen, although Pertinax welcomed her calmness as excusing unenthusiasm in herself. "Marcia is right," said Galen. "It is now or never. Marcia ought to know Commodus!"
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