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At four paces distance from the king I saluted him, and addressed him in the terms agreed upon; he inquired the names of my colleagues, and I replied, 'I do not know them; we were about to withdraw, when he recalled us, saying, 'I cannot see you before Friday." An ill-repressed agitation, which had hitherto pervaded the ranks of the Assembly, now broke forth at these last words.
"Then, as your part was not evil," pursued Florence, with ill-repressed eagerness, "you can't object to telling us about him. Where is he now?" "Pardon me, but I do object. I have strong reasons. You must excuse me." "We will not excuse you!" cried Florence. "We have the right to know the right of friend-ship the right of love. I insist. I will not take a refusal."
Beyond a slight swelling and external soreness, the cricoid cartilage known to the multitude as Adam's apple was seemingly uninjured, while Theydon himself now made light of the blow, though a certain hoarseness was perceptible in his voice, and he deemed it advisable to speak in a low-pitched tone. Evelyn Forbes listened with ill-repressed bewilderment while he related the day's doings.
Other evidence accumulated. Cryptic remarks of Doble made during the day. His anxiety to see Steelman immediately. A certain manner of ill-repressed triumph whenever he mentioned Sanders or Crawford. These bolstered Shorty's growing opinion that the man had deliberately fired the chaparral from a spirit of revenge. Shorty was an outlaw and a bad man.
But in the radiant glory of the sunset I no longer see the dazzle and the splendour of the Kings! "Which way went they, the Kings?" "Behind the mountains!" In the morning of the day preceding Christmas a lurking, yet ill-repressed, excitement pervaded the Château and all its dependencies.
But he hed ter go last year, spite o' hisself, an' leave David Brill 'live an' well an' becomin' more an' more lookt up ter ev'ry day by the people, while the Penningtons war gittin' wuss and wuss hated. We hed a son, too, the very apple of our eyes, who wuz growin' up jest like his father " The quaver of an ill-repressed sob blurred her tones.
There are still reservations where the seclusion of the Indians is practically maintained by the ill-repressed hostility of tribes; some, where the same result is secured by the barrenness or inaccessibility of the regions in which they are situated; but it is evident that the lapse of another such five years will find every reservation between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains surrounded, and to a degree penetrated, by prospectors and pioneers, miners, ranchmen, or traders.
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