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The British representative, Sir Rutherford Alcock, in a despatch written to his Government, at the close of 1859, penned some very caustic comments on the conduct of his countrymen, and did not hesitate to declare that "in estimating the difficulties to be overcome in any attempt to improve the aspect of affairs, if the ill-disguised enmity of the governing classes and the indisposition of the Executive Government to give partial effect to the treaties be classed among the first and principal of these, the unscrupulous character and dealings of foreigners who frequent the ports for purposes of trade are only second and scarcely inferior in importance, from the sinister character of the influence they exercise."
For the last five minutes she had been lost in furtive contemplation of her two youthful guests, her withered countenance more melancholy even than usual. Ten o'clock struck, and, to Macgregor's ill-disguised delight, Christina rose and said she must be going. Mrs. McOstrich accompanied the two to the outer door. There she took Christina's hand, stroked it once or twice, and let it go.
Still, their anger, as they followed him into the building, was so intense as to defy being masked and afforded us, who were witnessing the episode, the most complete satisfaction and ill-disguised delight. The expected happened. The representative entered Barrack 6. He climbed the rickety staircase leading to the loft with difficulty to dive into the "Black Hole."
Nor was this wide, but indefensible, territory inhabited by a single homogeneous people. Between the Poles and the Lithuanians existed a long-standing feud, and the Germans regarded all the Slavs with ill-disguised contempt. Religion added its share to the dissension created by race and language within Poland. The Poles and most of the Lithuanians were stanch Roman Catholics.
For instance, the cat's tail had been eaten into in such a way that it might now have been taken for the figure of a spectator so long, and thick, and furry were the tails of our forefathers' cats. To the right of the picture, on an azure field which ill-disguised the decay of the wood, might be read the name "Guillaume," and to the left, "Successor to Master Chevrel."
The 'literary man's' oily face was positively radiant with malignancy. 'Is it your wish, madam, that I find you your carriage? said the young officer addressing Maria Nikolaevna with a quiver of ill-disguised fury in his voice. 'No, thank you, she answered ... 'my man will find it. Stop! she added in an imperious whisper, and rapidly withdrew drawing Sanin along with her. 'Go to the devil!
I answered her with a look in which the artless malice of the rustic must have been apparent: "To obtain release, cousin, from a certain promise you made me at Roche-Mauprat." She grew paler than ever, and on her face I could see an expression of terror, but ill-disguised by a smile of contempt. "What was the promise you made him, Edmee?" asked the chevalier, turning towards her ingenuously.
These two rôles absorbed practically the whole of what is professionally known as "the fat" of the piece, and the other members of the company were relegated to their ill-disguised relief to parts of purely nominal importance. He must have "gagged" unduly here, for presently he was cut short by a stern admonition to "wish for a fairy." "I wish for a fairy," said Henry dutifully.
She felt a horrible repugnance against dropping into the gulf of pettiness in which the women among whom she lived were floundering. This repugnance, stamped on her forehead, on her lips, and ill-disguised, was taken for the insolence of a parvenue.
Thus he continued to employ all his most intimate associates in an attempt to urge the Marquise to make such concessions as would enable him to pardon her, with the earnestness of a repentant lover rather than the clemency of an indulgent sovereign; and when the stern minister so signally failed to convince her reason by his representations, the King endeavoured to arouse her vanity and self-interest by the flatteries and inferences of the more courtly Bassompierre, La Varenne, Sigogne, and others in whom he placed confidence; but all this ill-disguised anxiety only served to convince the wily favourite that she should prove victorious in the struggle, for since Henry could not bring himself to consent to her expatriation, there was no probability that he would ever be induced to take her life.
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