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To be so free and active here, and to be bound again in the body, in the close, suffering, ill-savoured house of life! But I have much to gain by it. I have a sharpness of temper and a peremptoriness of which indeed," he said, smiling, "you have had experience. I am fond of doing things in my own way, inconsiderate of others, and impatient if they do not go right.
Jealous instantly of her own prerogatives she dropped her futile labors on the mud-stained silk stockings and scrambled precipitously for the White Linen Nurse's lap where she nestled down finally after many gyrations, and sat glowering forth at all possible interlopers. "Don't leave any of us!" she ordered with a peremptoriness not unmixed with supplication.
"What did ye say this hyar stranger calls hisself, Peanuts?" he demanded, bluntly, and when the other had told him he repeated the name thoughtfully. Then he shot out another question with the sharp peremptoriness of a prosecuting attorney, and in the high, rasping voice of his affliction. "What caused him ter leave Virginny?" The stout giant grinned imperturbably.
Stannidge thereupon said with a considerate peremptoriness that she and her mother had better take their own suppers if they meant to have any. Elizabeth fetched their simple provisions, as she had fetched the Scotchman's, and went up to the little chamber where she had left her mother, noiselessly pushing open the door with the edge of the tray.
Suddenly he looked up and round on his wife, and said with a peremptoriness which admitted of no questioning: "Go and see that one of the spare bedrooms is got ready, a fire lit, and so on. Get this done quickly, and meantime leave him to me. I have got restoratives here close at hand." Mrs.
They certainly looked more intelligent than the average one sat with during the trying half- hour after dinner; but their conversation was fragmentary, and they oddly suggested having left their personality at home and taken their shell out to dinner. Betty also was interested to observe that their composite expression was a curious mingling of fatigue, unselfishness, and peremptoriness.
I will never allow myself to be made an obstacle to that. He must marry no one but his cousin. I will never stand between him and her between him and what is equally his interest and his duty." But Anthony, too, was getting himself in hand. "Look here," he said, with some peremptoriness. "You may just once for all eliminate my cousin from your calculations.
I am afraid you had a disagreeable and dangerous drive home. Would you like me to wake one of the servants Ellen, perhaps and tell her to come to you?" "Oh! you won't let me say what I ought to say," she exclaimed in despair. "That my cousin should have behaved like this should have insulted you " "No! no!" he said with some peremptoriness.
"In a moment," he replied. "There are one or two questions it would please me to have you answer first." And his manner took on a charm that robbed his words of all peremptoriness, and made it difficult, if not impossible, for me to move. "You have spoken of Miss Reynolds," he resumed; "have told me that she declared upon her dying bed that the relations between Mr.
Carlotta did not appear in the least offended at his curt comment. Indeed the smile on her lips lingered as if it had some inner reason for being there. "Hop in, Tony," ordered Ted with brotherly peremptoriness. "Carlotta, you are one too many, my love. You will have to sit in my lap." "I'm getting out," said Phil. "I'm due across the river. Want Ted to take the wheel, Doctor?" "I do not.
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