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Instead of calling on the girl and talking to her as a wise man would have done, he sat down and wrote her a terse letter forbidding her to appear as Ariel, and adding that if she should persist in doing so their engagement must be considered at an end. Miss Priest naturally fired up.
He was terse and perspicuous in his sentences, practical in his advice, and, above all things, true in what he said to his audience of themselves. They who know America will understand how hard it is for a public man in the States to practice such truth in his addresses. Fluid compliments and high-flown national eulogium are expected. In this instance none were forthcoming.
This Terse, which even Marie Antoinette sang, ran thus: "Ne craignez pas, cher papa, D' voir augmenter vot' famille, Le bon Dieu z'y pourvoira: Faits-en taut qu' Versailles en fourmille; Yeut-il cent Bourbons cheu nos Ya du pain, du laurier pour tous."
Clare handed her the paper without a word, and still gazed before her, as if she were in a dream. Agatha soon found it. Only a terse, short telegram, mentioning that reports of a massacre of a surveying party had just reached the African coast, and it was feared that none had escaped alive. Captain Knox's name was amongst those of the party. 'It is only a report, faltered Agatha.
Ayah's vocabulary was limited, even in the vernacular, and nothing would have induced her to return railing for railing to the children, however sorely they abused her. But Jan occasionally freed her mind, and at such times her speech was terse and incisive. Moreover, she quickly perceived her power over her niece in this respect, and traded on the baby's quick ear and interest.
It was still two days before he was allowed to talk to his own satisfaction. Then, one afternoon in her rest hour, Alice Mellen let him have his way and, seated by his cot, she answered tersely to a raking fire of terse questions. "How long have I been here?" "Just a week." "How did I get here?" "Hospital train from Krugersdorp." "What for?" "You had a touch of fever.
Perry Blackwood and Ham did most of the talking, while Ralph, characteristically, lay at full length on the window-seat, interrupting with an occasional terse and cynical remark very much to the point. As a sophomore, he in particular seemed lifted immeasurably above us, for he was as might have been expected already a marked man in his class.
He would chat there for an hour or two in his spasmodic, half-sullen way, in which, however, an increasing cordiality mingled, making, before he retired once more into space, some colour notes of the yard or the river, or at times a rough sketch, which was never without its terse originality. Rainham began to look forward to these visits with a recurring pleasure.
There is a terse determination in its brief, indignant sentences which is a relief to the reader weary of the wavering and purposeless campaign: "Dear and good friends, good and loyal Frenchmen of the town of Rheims. Jeanne, the Maid, sends you news of her.
"Very well, speak," was the terse reply. This was somewhat disconcerting. Eleanor coughed. "Will you be good enough to state your errand without further peroration. I do not relish being interrupted in my reading." "I I thought I ought to tell you, to show you I mean you ought to see this note which I found," and Eleanor crossed the room to Miss Woodhull's side, the note held toward her.
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