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"I thought you hadn't the capital to do that," said Jasper, speaking with ill-repressed eagerness. "Nor have I," coolly answered Martin. "The proposition I was about to make was this an advance of twenty thousand dollars capital on your part, to constitute you an equal partner in the mine. But this you decline." "Certainly! certainly! I would not have entertained it for a moment." "Exactly.
In Willis's eyes was an ill-repressed twinkle of exultation and amusement, and on his thin lips the dawning of an actual sneer. It was but seldom the trained satellite allowed himself the luxury of betraying any natural feeling. In truth, he chose his time badly for its exhibition now.
In these fits of susceptibility every glance seemed to him to be charged either with offensive pity or with ill-repressed disgust; at the very least it was an indifferent glance, and Philip felt indifference as a child of the south feels the chill air of a northern spring.
Preston's name, and found that this was a subject on which Cynthia was raw; now, Cynthia's face lighted up with spirit, and her whole body showed her ill-repressed agitation, but she only said a few sharp words, expressive of anything but kindly feeling towards the gentleman, and then bade Molly never name his name to her again.
She pressed the latch of the door, her breathing so rapid as to be positively painful. With an ill-repressed oath, Farnham sprang to his feet, his rising anger putting an end to all prudence. "Wait!" he exclaimed gruffly. "Wait where you are until I am done. You have heard only a part of this thing so far.
After all, I can very well understand it," added Adrienne, as if to herself; "vipers are so thin. But, to lay aside these follies," she continued, gayly, as she saw the ill-repressed rage of the pious woman, "tell us at once, my dear aunt, all the tender things which the sight of our happiness inspires." "I hope to do so, my amiable niece.
"Bah!" said Tom Loker, who had listened to these stories with ill-repressed disgust, "shif'less, both on ye! my gals don't cut up no such shines, I tell ye!" "Indeed! how do you help it?" said Marks, briskly.
He found himself in a comparatively quiet street, wherein blocks of cheap modern flats alternated with the dingy middle-class houses of a by-gone generation. He halted to light a cigarette, and, at that moment, a girl of remarkable beauty passed, walking quickly, yet without apparent effort. She was pallid and agitated, and her eyes were swimming with ill-repressed tears.
With ill-repressed loathing Manlius tried the contents of the cup and stammered in amazement: "This is wine." Then, in a low tone, seized by a fear hitherto unknown, he asked: "And that dying figure?" "Is the image of the crucified Saviour." Manlius perceived with astonishment that it was only a painted picture. "Do you worship a dead man?" "A god who became man to die." "That is impossible."
"And is it upon this hollow and treacherous principle that you are about to pay them a friendly visit?" asked her husband, with ill-repressed indignation. "Lindsay," she replied, sharply, "I perceive you are rife for a quarrel now; but I beg to tell you, sir, that I will neither seek your approbation nor regard your authority. I must manage these people after my own fashion."
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