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Updated: June 6, 2025
"I can't have you calling me that, you know. If we are going to live together, we must have absolutely clear understanding between us on all points. Don't you agree with me, Gilbert?" Ingleton growled something unintelligible, and made for the open window. "Don't go!" said his wife with a touch of peremptoriness. "I want you here.
But Gwendolen was watching her mother with that new divination which experience had given her; and in tender relenting at her own peremptoriness, said, "Come and sit nearer to me, mamma, and don't be unhappy." Mrs. Davilow did as she was told, but bit her lips in the vain attempt to hinder smarting tears. Gwendolen leaned toward her caressingly and said, "I mean to be very wise; I do, really.
There was a gentle peremptoriness in the summons, that made it something like being commanded into the presence of a princess; a great favor, no doubt, but yet a little humbling to the recipient. However, I acquiesced with due gratitude, and was presented accordingly. She made room for me on the sofa, and I sat down, and began to talk.
Hope was admitted with unwillingness even to her, and was obliged to assume his ultimate degree of peremptoriness of manner with her nurses. He found her muffled up about the head with flannel, and with a slice of fat bacon, folded in flannel, tied about her throat, a means considered a specific for small-pox in some regions.
They were all looking in the direction of the station, and Miss Mapp stepped into the coal-merchant's unobserved. Oddly enough the coke had been sent three days before, and there was no need for peremptoriness. "So good of you, Mr. Wootten!" she said; "and why is everyone standing about this afternoon?" Mr.
In spite of her cold peremptoriness he could see that she was deeply agitated. That fact gave him courage. His voice dropped to the tender persuasive note which had always affected her like a spell. 'My dear my very dearest.... We made a great mistake once. Let us forget that. Death has opened the gate of freedom for me, at least and I can only feel remorseful thankfulness.
Two days later, in the afternoon, Aldous Raeburn found himself at the door of Mellor. When he entered the drawing-room, Mrs. Boyce, who had heard his ring, was hurrying away. "Don't go," he said, detaining her with a certain peremptoriness. "I want all the light on this I can get.
She was very small and slight, and her hair made a spot of pale gold against the oak panelling of the walls. Helbeck noticed the slenderness of her arms, and the prettiness of her little white neck, then the freedom of her quick gesture as she went up to the elder lady and with a certain peremptoriness began to loosen her cloak.
"You like my hands?" she asked. "Yes, dear." "Better than my lips?" "No, dear." "Well, one might think so. But, if you don't, then sir, I'm waiting." Her peremptoriness was very sweet. I had gone there determined to take no lover's privileges until the cloud I was under had been removed. But, what would you! I was not stone, nor ice and, no more was the Princess.
"Nonsense, Miss May," he said, with sufficient peremptoriness for a man who had been rather accustomed to efface himself in these girls' presence, "you were not to be suffered to hide your light under a bushel. I wonder to hear you I thought you had more pluck and perseverance. How many times do you think the young fellows at St. Ambrose's are turned back and have to try again?
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