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Paulsberg; later on Attorney Grande appeared, dragging with him Coldevin, who followed unwillingly and protestingly; he wanted to be excused. The Attorney had met him outside and had thought it would be fun to bring him along.
Madame X. and I scurried up and down the paths trying to find a vista through the trees that would disclose this monster which was moving so protestingly along the road. I imagined it would be snorting flame and its eyes smouldering fires, but instead its eyes were neat little windows with tidy curtains, for the monster turned out to be three diminutive houses on wheels drawn by a huge motor.
No one heard save she. But she put her hand on his arm protestingly. "Even if we don't believe," said she not harshly, but imploringly, "we needn't make fun." "We don't believe!" And that new tone of entreaty! She had comprehended without explanation. She was a weird woman. Was there another creature, male or female, to whom he would have dared to say what he had said to her?
For his life he could not help laughing; and for his life he would not let Kilmeny see him laughing. A certain little whimsical wish took possession of him and he did not hasten to tell her the truth, as had been his first impulse. Instead, when he dared to look up he said slowly, "I don't think you are ugly, Kilmeny." "Oh, but I am sure you must," she wrote protestingly. "Even Neil does.
Here there was a colloquy. First, Lounsbury held forth; next, the trooper, protestingly. When the lieutenant broke in, two phrases were frequently repeated "to the guard-house," and "won't if you will." At last the three went back to the window. "Remember," cautioned the storekeeper, "we don't want all these shebangs stirred up." "Needn't worry," said Fraser.
He strolled to his belated canvas and stood for a while puffing at his pipe, his mind still pondering gloomily over his neglected foreground. then regretfully, tenderly, he undid the clips that fastened the canvas, unlooped the cords from his stone anchors, wiped his brushes, shut his paint-box and moved slowly up the hill toward the house, his mind protestingly adjusting itself to the situation.
"Why can't we bring them up like Huckleberry Finns!" she thought, protestingly, pressing her lips together. Then she laughed inwardly at the thought of certain sophisticated friends and their opinion of her life. "I daresay we do seem to be bringing them up like Huckleberry Finns, in the minds of any of the New York friends, Eugenia Mills for instance!"
I wasn't sure what could be done, but after you decided to come I thought we could play the part and give them time to be married at Shelby." "You mean you and I are to pretend we are somebody else, mean " Selwyn's voice was protestingly puzzled. Impersonation did not appeal. "There'll be no necessity to pretend.
He left behind him the sort of electric calm which follows the falling of a thunderbolt; that stunned calm through which the air seems still to quiver protestingly. How long this would have lasted one cannot say: for towards the end of the first minute it was shattered by a purely terrestrial uproar.
"Can ye no' watch the music? Noo it's paddy-bash!" he cried. His French Canadian comrade waved his fiddle-bow protestingly. "Paddybashy! V'la la belle chose!" he exclaimed with ineffable contempt, and broke in upon the ranting melody with a succession of harsh, crashing chords.
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