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"But there is plenty of food for Constantine's rifle," said I, pointing to the muzzle of it, which protruded from the window. He suddenly became impatient. "Your answer, sir?" he demanded, peremptorily. "Here it is," said I. "I'll keep the island, and I'll see Constantine hanged." "So be it, so be it!" he cried.
We remained where we were, watching with all eyes, while Jack persisted in keeping his hand on the pistol in his pocket. A crowd immediately surrounded Edmund and we were unable to see exactly what went on, a fact that rendered Jack so much the more impatient. But it turned out that there was no cause for alarm. In about ten minutes the crowd opened and Edmund appeared.
Jennie Albert stared wonderingly at them. "Why those girls? I remember them, of course," she said. "I supposed those names were assumed, but I had no idea they really owned such ugly ones." "And where, for goodness' sake, are they?" cried the impatient Bess. "Miss Montague and her friend?" "Yes," Nan explained.
She knew there would be evil, but she had expected it in a more striking and less disagreeable form. That walk certainly made her less impatient, though it did not relax her determination, nor the guard over her lion and bear, which her own good feeling, aided by Margaret's council, showed her were the greatest hindrances to her doing anything good and great.
But a severe attack of illness detained Alexander at Tarsus, and when he was a little recovered, troubles in Western Cilicia, threatening his communications with Greece, required his presence; so that Darius grew impatient, and, believing that his enemy had no intention of advancing further than Cilicia, resolved to seek him in that country.
Contrary to her hopes Sergeant-Major Clark plainly did not know that the preparations referred to were for something quite other than his own visit. The movement of the horse outside, and the impatient tapping of a whip- handle upon the vehicle reminded them that Clark's driver was still in waiting. The provisions were brought into the house, and the cart dismissed.
These thoughts occupied less than a minute, and so impatient was the man to regain the raft he had just left that inside of two minutes more he again stood on the river-bank. He had been gone barely five minutes, and in that time he had not seen a human being. Now he could not see the raft. He rubbed his eyes and looked again.
Instantly the men obeyed, sitting with eyes and ears alert for any sight or sound that should proclaim the approach of a guard. But twilight fell and none came, as Lawrence had predicted. Sounds of revelry, broken now and then by the lowing of the cattle, were constant. In due time the moon rose and with its coming the cowboys grew impatient.
If he doesn't come for that, he will never come at all. And I sha'n't wait for him," she added under her breath. She seemed impatient for him to depart and despatch the message, but when he took his leave her eyes followed him with a wistful gratitude that sent a thrill to his heart. She had taken him at his word, and had made him her friend in need.
They broke down the remnant of her excuse that the child was an imposition. They woke all her woman's tenderness, and the impulse to console carried her in a few moments to the door. 'Uncle! Uncle Frank! 'I'm not ill, answered a broken, heaving, impatient voice. 'I want nothing. 'Oh, let me in, dear uncle I've something to tell you! 'Not now, came on the back of a sob. 'Go!
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