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"Who could have made such a report?" Leigh wondered, still at a loss. "The information came through a responsible channel, through one whose duty it is to take cognisance of such things and to report them to the proper authorities." He was surprised to see that his listener was laughing, not without a suggestion of scornfulness. "I 've heard the same unseemly shouts myself, Dr. Renshaw.
The simile must be accepted in its might, for no lesser one will express the scornfulness toward men displayed by this strikingly well-favoured, formal lady, whose heart of hearts demanded for her as spouse, a lord, a philosopher, and a Christian, in one: and he must be a member of Parliament. Hence her isolated air.
The ruffian looked with some doubt upon the youth inquiringly, as if to account in some way for the singular coolness, not to say contemptuous scornfulness, of his replies and manner.
At the door there came over him a wave of recollection. It seemed to him all at once that he was, by reason of his afflictions, set still further without the pale of any possible regard. He dodged to his table and sat down without a look at any of his neighbours. To him it seemed that Nora regarded him with yet more visible scornfulness. Could he have sunk beneath the board he would have done so.
'I did it, and still I continued merry? She subsided from her scornfulness on an involuntary 'Ah! that was a shudder. 'You acted Light Heart, madam, and too well to hoodwink me. Meanwhile you allowed that mischief to proceed, rather than have your crazy lullaby disturbed. 'Indeed, Mr. Camwell, you presume. 'The time, and my knowledge of what it is fraught with, demand it and excuse it.
Delia seemed rejoiced to see him come down stairs again, but he looked shy upon her, and told her he could not have thought she would have been so unkind as not to have come to see him; but on her acquainting him with the reason of her absence, and protesting it was not her fault, he grew as fond of her as ever; and among a great many other tender expressions, 'I wish, said he, 'I were a man, and you a woman. 'Why? returned she; 'because, cried he, 'we would be married. 'O fye, answered the little coquet, 'I should hate you, if you thought of any such thing; for I will never be married. Then turned away with an affected scornfulness, and yet looked kindly enough upon him from the corner of one eye.
And if you go around praising every pretty girl in Le Detroit, you will have no time left for business, Monsieur." Her face set itself in resolute lines, her voice had a cold scornfulness in it. "Is this all the welcome you have for me? I have been in but an hour, and busy enough with these dolts in unloading.
"His wife! Yes, old woman, I am his wife," cried Rachael, pale with indignation; "but who authorized you to ask?" The old woman did not heed her scornfulness, but turned her eyes upon Lord Hope, whose face was already white with vague terror. "Is she your wife the woman who was called Rachael Closs?" "It is Lady Hope, my wife. Why do you ask?"
He was sensitive, very proud, inclined, perhaps, to scornfulness, certainly to fastidiousness, and one who seldom suffered fools either gladly or with much show of tolerance. It was a somewhat unfortunate temperament, probably, for a man situated as he was, possessed of no private means and dependent entirely upon his earnings.
All the scornfulness had gone out of it. "Job," he said, "Job, I knew you were here. Many a night I have seen you come, have watched you kneeling here, and hated you for it yet loved you for it. I knew you would come again to-night. I came to stand beneath that old pine yonder, and watched you lay the wreath on the grave. I could stand it no longer.
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