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With sudden reviving the daze went out of her features and the old light came back to her eyes, the far-seeing, undaunted light that had beaconed the long way from Grand Portage. She was every inch the leader again, tall, straight against the logs, her brown arm pointing imperiously to the closed gate. "Open, I say!"
"That'll be enough now if you'll light it for me." She glanced dubiously round the now almost deserted room; and a waiter started forward as if animated by a spring. Anisty motioned him imperiously back. "Go on," he coaxed; "no one can see."
Bumble imperiously. 'This must be stated to the board, Mrs. Mann. 'I hope the gentleman will understand that it isn't my fault, sir? said Mrs. Mann, whimpering pathetically. 'They shall understand that, ma'am; they shall be acquainted with the true state of the case, said Mr. Bumble. 'There; take him away, I can't bear the sight on him.
But before he could add another word, Clutton rapped with the handle of his knife imperiously on the table. "Gentlemen," he said in a stern voice, and his huge nose positively wrinkled with passion, "a name has been mentioned which I never thought to hear again in decent society. Freedom of speech is all very well, but we must observe the limits of common propriety.
He demanded, sometimes imperiously, not only the peace that can be understood gloriously, but also that other peace which passeth understanding. And because he had it not he suffered. In the Garden of Allah he felt a loneliness even though she was with him, and he could not speak with her of this loneliness. That was the barrier between them, she thought.
Upon him immediately Jim frowned ominously. "So you are taking sides with him, Talbot, are you?" he said, imperiously. "No, Jim," answered Talbot, hurriedly, for he now saw that he had been guilty of an imprudence. "What made you say he wasn't scared, then?" "I only said he didn't seem afraid," answered Talbot, apologetically.
Lacheneur straightened himself up, and seemed to be gathering all his energy for the decisive moment. "Remain inside," he said, imperiously, to Antoine and his wife. "I am going out; they must not arrest me in your house." As he spoke, he stepped outside the door, with a firm tread, a dauntless brow, a calm and assured mien. The soldiers were but a few feet from him.
He tasted on them the bitterness of a tear fallen there. He had never seen her cry. It was like another appeal to his tenderness a new seduction. The girl glanced round, moved suddenly away, and averted her face. With her hand she signed imperiously to him to leave her alone a command which Heyst did not obey.
"Pooh!" said Cleland, imperiously, "pooh! it is neither the one nor the other; I, gentlemen, am in the secret but you take me, eh? One must not speak well of one's self; mum is the word." "Then," asked Steele, quietly, "we are to suppose that you, Colonel, are the writer?" "I never said so, Dicky; but the women will have it that I am," and the colonel smoothed down his cravat. "Pray, Mr.
Some day she would whittle them into shape; for there were always coming to Della days full of roomy leisure and large content. Meanwhile apples would serve her turn, good alike to draw a weary mind out of its channel or teach the shape of spheres. "Don't you drive over them wickets!" she called imperiously, when Eben came up from the lot in his dingle cart.
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