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Updated: May 1, 2025
"So you have told Emily Warren, but will not tell us," Adah complained, in a piqued tone and manner. "Indeed, you are mistaken. Miss Warren found me out by intuition. I am learning that there is no occasion to tell her things: she sees them." Mr. Yocomb's face wore a decidedly puzzled look, and contained also the suggestion of an apt guess.
Besides, if I held to my resolution, which I meant to do, of retiring to some quiet and sequestered cottage till my health was restored, the opportunity might not readily present itself again. This line of argument perfectly satisfied my reason; while a strong feeling of something like curiosity piqued me to proceed, and before many minutes elapsed, I reached the house.
And the fact piqued her. The fate of the tramp was a secondary consideration now. She and her mother were safe. The car would have to be repaired; but that was unimportant.
Then, as she gazed at him steadfastly, without replying at all, he felt rather piqued, and took off his blue glasses and squared his fine shoulders against the rock. "Oh, you!" said the girl softly at last, "You are like nothing on earth, lord! You are like the sun when he first comes over the plain, or the moon at night, when it floats, white and shining, through the blue spaces!"
I don't think my nerves can stand the encounter." "Why, Jessica!" I protested. She blushed a little. "Don't think bad of me, Victor. But, you see, I've a little scrap-book of those triolets upstairs." Then she burst into a peal of irresistible laughter. "I'm not laughing because I am piqued," she said frankly.
As we proceeded along the ledge I gave Dian minute directions for finding my cave against the chance of something happening to me. I knew that she would be quite safely hidden away from pursuit once she gained the shelter of my lair, and the valley would afford her ample means of sustenance. Also, I was very much piqued by her treatment of me.
A fixed point of view will keep a shrine sacred forever, but let a worshipper's perspective be altered, and it is astonishing how different the features of divinity will appear. Flossy had worshipped with the eyes of faith. Now that her adoration was rejected without apparent cause, her curiosity was piqued, and she sought an interpretation of the mystery from her clever wits.
Our strange host looked up at the rifle, then searchingly at Big Pete. “I don’t mind showing it to you, but you must not touch it,” he said finally. “I reckon I wouldn’t hurt it none. I’ve handled guns before,” said Big Pete shortly, and I could see that he was piqued at the man’s attitude.
"And the eyes are not unlike," I added, meaning well. "I'm sorry you think so," said Rosalind, evidently piqued. "Well, never mind," I tried to make peace, "she hasn't your hands," I knew that women cared more about their hands than their faces. "How do you know?" she retorted; "you cannot see through her gloves." "Would any gloves disguise your hands?" I persisted.
The girl watched his well-knit figure as it strode up the quay until it was out of sight, and then, inwardly piqued because he had not turned round for a parting glance, gave a little sigh, and went below to tea. The docile and respectful behaviour of the new-comer was a pleasant change to the autocrat of the Osprey, and cargoes were worked out and in without an unpleasant word.
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