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"Madame," he said, "I wish to see Monsieur le propriétaire." The dame de comptoir looked very uneasy. "If Monsieur has any complaint to make," she said, "he can make it to me." "Madame, I have none." "Or if it has reference to the ordering of a dinner...." Müller smiled loftily. "Dinner, Madame," he said, with a disdainful gesture, "is but one of the accidents common to humanity. A trifle!
What I have said I said never thinking that it would do them harm." "Not caring whether it would do them harm or no," corrected Ramiro, "as you had your own object to gain the young lady whom, by the way, you were quite ready to doctor with a love medicine." "Because love blinded me," said Adrian loftily.
"We shall see her there in time, Emmeline. At present let it be between me and my son." He spoke loftily. In truth it offended him to be asked to do anything, when he had just brought himself to do so much. A month elapsed, and Richard appeared on the scene. The meeting between him and his father was not what his father had expected and had crooned over in the Welsh mountains.
'I wonder whether this is a pretty book? said one to the other, taking down a trio of volumes. 'Oh, it looks as if it might be pretty, returned her friend, examining the cover. They faced to the person behind the counter. 'Is this a pretty book? one of them inquired loftily. 'Oh yes, madam, that's a very pretty book very pretty. Nancy exchanged a glance with her companion and smiled.
Bingle comes out of this thing a winner. He " "Wait, dear," she interrupted, her fair brow-clouding. "What of Mrs. Bingle? What will she say to this exploit of his?" "Isn't he the master in his own house?" demanded Dick loftily. Still, a spark of dismay leaped into his eyes. "He is a good man, Dick. He never permits himself to forget that she is its mistress.
The most absolute pain I suffered sprang from a bewildering incapacity to conjure up a vision of Ottilia free of the glittering accessories of her high birth; and that was the pain of shame; but it came only at intervals, when pride stood too loftily and the shadow of possible mischance threatened it with the axe. She did not condemn me to long waiting.
Just a minute ago and you had me a duck. I've lost caste I was a mandarin then." "I didn't say a wedding present for our wedding, did I?" she inquired loftily. "Why don't you stop and think a minute. They don't teach observation in college, evidently." Teddy was nonplussed. "You've got me," he said, his brows drawn together in a puzzled frown. She tapped her foot impatiently.
You have raised us to the highest rank your power could bestow, and this has amply atoned our humble services." "I am glad ye allow thus much," said the Tribune. Arimbaldo proceeded, somewhat more loftily, "I trust, my Lord, you do not doubt us?"
"Us, we been gawdin' amongst the Injuns," he stated loftily. "We sure had some time. I'll say we did! Say, we're goin' to be ready to do business now pretty quick. Don't you birds want to fly? Just a little ways to see how it feels?" Halfway up the stepladder Johnny stopped. "What's the matter with you, Bland?" he asked sharply. "You crazy?" "We're out to do business. That's right, boys.
Campbell, who had a fine taste in clothes and a fluent vocabulary, followed his lead in looking down loftily on the rest of the world. This was only their second term, and the school, used to what it profanely called "crammers' pups," had treated them with rather galling reserve. But their whiskers Sefton owned a real razor and their mustaches were beyond question impressive.
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