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It had been a sore grief to her when Tim, her only boy and the baby of the home, had become crippled. Perhaps she sensed more clearly than did the lad the full seriousness of the calamity. As for Tim, he accepted it in childish fashion, hopefully ignoring the problems of the future. To Van Blake Mrs. McGrew was all gratitude. Of all her children her boy was her favorite.
But she is now heaping compote upon a slice of thickly buttered bread for him, glancing meanwhile at our evening newspaper. "Ruggums always has his awful own way, doesn't ums?" she remarks to the nipper. Deeply ignoring this, I resume my elocutionary studies of the Declaration of Independence. For I should say that a signal honour of a municipal character has just been done me.
Why couldn't you tell me before? 'I will come over tomorrow morning perhaps in time for church, he proceeded, ignoring her demand for an explanation. He always did ignore her demand for an explanation. Indeed, she only asked for explanations in a mechanical and perfunctory manner she had long since ceased to expect them. Sir Jee had been born like that devious, mysterious, incalculable.
He turned from Van Horn, and, ignoring him, spoke to Kate: "You remember you said you were going to show me your ponies." It was Kate's turn to stare: "You must be mistaken." He did not press the subject: "Perhaps you've forgotten," was all he said. "When or where did I ever say that?" Kate asked, resenting the intimation. He looked down, then looking up his eyes rested on Kate's.
Ignoring Orion's presence, he asked the child a few brief questions, begged Eudoxia to persevere in the same course of treatment, and then hastily bid a general farewell to all present; Orion, however, did not respond, but said, with an affectionate glance at the little patient: "One word with you presently."
In a very short time, however, I was obliged to interfere in municipal matters in New Orleans, for it had become clearly apparent that several of the officials were, both by acts of omission and commission, ignoring the law, so on the 27th of March I removed from office the Mayor, John T. Monroe; the Judge of the First District Court, E. Abell; and the Attorney-General of the State, Andrew S. Herron; at the same time appointing to the respective offices thus vacated Edward Heath, W. W. Howe, and B. L. Lynch.
"They deserve that it should be stolen," I said to myself, "for being such fools." And then we went down to breakfast in the cabin. "I suppose it must be safe," said Mrs. Greene to me, ignoring the fact that the cabin waiter understood English, although she had just ordered some veal cutlets in that language.
Thank God, our day has come!" Completely ignoring the rest of the company, the two Germans carried on a rapid and passionate conversation in their own tongue with excited gesticulations, which the professor concluded by turning to his hostess and saying, "Mrs. Wakeham, you will excuse us. Mr. Wakeham, you can send us to town at once?"
"I'll tell you something," he said, eagerly, ignoring her suggestion. "I'd like to run away with you and be married to-night, Selma. That's what I'd like, and I guess you won't. But it's the burning wish of my heart that you'd marry me some time. I want you to be my wife. I'm a rough fellow along-side of you, Selma, but I'd do well by you; I would.
And, always, when they came home, she lingered a moment at the door-step and looked all round before she went in. At all these signs one half of Mrs. Dodd's heart used to boil with indignation, and the other half melt with pity. For she saw her daughter was looking for "the Wretch." Indeed Mrs. Dodd began to fear she had done unwisely in ignoring "the Wretch."
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