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"The Great Temple of the Ages," he repeated. "But do you remember the trouble we had when the little old Queen was so pigheaded?" "Oh! I remember, I remember," said Likeman, smiling with unshaken confidence. "Why not?" "For sixty years all we bishops in what you call the Great Temple of the Ages, were appointed and bullied and kept in our places by that pink irascible bit of dignity.
"Yes," agreed Glen, "my mother, you mean." "Yes, I mean your mother. And your father, too, as long as he lived. Don't you suppose it mattered to them that their boy should be so " she hesitated, groping for a word. "Pigheaded!" volunteered Glen. Mrs. Spencer looked shocked, and remonstrated: "Why, Glen! I didn't say anything of the kind wayward was the word I wanted."
He showed it to Louvois, in order that it might be altered, which, as it was not then finished, was easy to do. Louvois sustained that the window was all right. The King insisted then, and on the morrow also, but Louvois, pigheaded and inflated with his authority, would not yield. The next day the King saw Le Notre in the gallery.
He had heard peasant proprietors described as a pig-headed lot; had heard young Mont call his father a pigheaded Morning Poster disrespectful young devil. Well, there were worse things than being pig-headed or reading the Morning Post. There was Profond and his tribe, and all these Labour chaps, and loud-mouthed politicians and 'wild, wild women'! A lot of worse things!
"They are mostly Presbyterians, dour, pigheaded, fanatical Republicans, who want to get an army of your French friends over to help them." "Presbyterians! How droll! I thought Presbyterians were But is not Maurice's friend, the young man who goes out fishing in the sea with Una, is not he a Presbyterian? I think they said last night that he was the son of a curé." "Yes, he is.
"Then you'll lose yor blinker, yo' pigheaded, likker-guzzling', ornery, no-account sand-hill crane," she said, viciously coming down on his chest with her full weight and sticking the point of hei nail against his eye. "I wouldn't marry yo' if ye wuz the last nubbin' in the Lord A'mighty's crib, and thar'd never be another crap o' men.
I was pigheaded about him, because he seemed to care so much about me. That counts for much with the most of us." "Alice Tynemouth saw a policeman help him into a cab in Piccadilly and take him away. Will there be trouble?" A grim look crossed his face. "I think not," he responded. "There are reasons. He has been stealing information for years, and sending it to Kruger, he and "
She had not given him credit for so much audacity, so much gallantry, and so much skill. She had thought him to be a pigheaded Clavering, like the rest of them. He was not pigheaded; he was a promising young man; she could have liked him and perhaps aided him only that he had shown so strong a determination to have nothing to do with her. Therefore the information should be used and it was used.
A white man wouldn't have done such a trick. It takes sheepherders and greasers to put across a thing so damnable as dragging a woman into a feud." Fendrick flushed angrily. "It's not my fault; you're a pigheaded obstinate chump. I used the only weapon left me." Kate, standing straight and tall behind her father's chair, looked at their common foe with uncompromising scorn.
They were all sorry for him too; they thought he was such an ass. You see a performance like his can't end where it begins; it has consequences." "You say, 'for him too. They couldn't be sorry for the lady why should they?" "You are pigheaded, Jim. What did I tell you last night? This thing put its mark on her, in a way no man has a right to mark a woman without her consent.
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