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"I see your play's going to be produced at the end of the month," said Barbara, waving her hand towards a paper on the opposite seat. "Are you coming with me to the first night?" he asked. "Of course!" She watched the departure of the old lady with ill-suppressed eagerness. "Thank goodness, she's gone! What is it, Eric? Why did you want to see me like this?"
Dick and Nan, left alone in the dining-room, turned upon each other like two young furies. "You came up here," said Dick, in a tone of ill-suppressed ire, "to tell him we were coming. I call it a mean trick." "What about you?" inquired Nan. "You'd better not talk about tricks. Can you think of a meaner one than giving him away to the entire middle west?" "The middle west!" echoed Dick bitterly.
I made my solo as short as possible, and finished with the ill-suppressed giggling of the girls, but my audience of poor cripples and weak-minded were equally impressed.
Defeated in this attempt to rescue him, they reluctantly, and with ill-suppressed shame and concern, voted for the capital sentence. Then they made a last attempt in his favor, and voted for respiting the execution. These zig zag politics produced the effect which any man conversant with public affairs might have foreseen. The Girondists, instead of attaining both their ends, failed of both.
The Slavic fox stood upon a metal balcony in his picturesque Art Nouveau palace that gave upon the precipice that overhung his bright little capital, and beside him stood Pestovitch, grizzled and cunning, and now full of an ill-suppressed excitement.
The other corner we soon made out to be a sort of temporary nook, from which the ladies of the palace and the young sultans and sultanas might spy the strangers. This we ascertained from seeing sundry very pretty faces thrust out occasionally between the folds of the curtain, and by the sound of many an ill-suppressed giggle amongst the peeping damsels.
The orders were given to the inferiors; and, as a matter of course, they were obeyed though ill-suppressed and portentous sounds of discontent at the undetermined, and seemingly unreasonable changes in their officer's mind might been heard issuing from the mouths of Nighthead, and other veterans of the crew.
Her companion who had now entered, stood behind her, holding his sides with ill-suppressed mirth; and at length called out "Harry, my boy, you scarcely were more discomposed the last morning we parted, when the yellow plush "
'Egad I made them as nimble as cows in a cage I have not learnt the use of my fists for nothing. So, you're going abroad to-morrow; without my leave, too pretty good joke that, indeed. Come, come, my brave fellow, you need not scowl at me in that way. Why, you look as surly as a butcher's dog with a broken head." Glanville, who was lived with ill-suppressed rage, rose haughtily. "Mr.
Indeed his voice was more than gruff: it betrayed ill-suppressed passion. Shorthouse was conscious of a strong desire to stop the conversation before it proceeded any further, but somehow or other his will was not equal to the task, and he could not get out of bed. The conversation went on, every tone and inflexion distinctly audible above the noise of the storm.
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