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Death lay before me violent, uncalled-for death and the victim was a woman. But it was not that. Though the head was not yet revealed, I thought I knew the woman and that she Did seconds pass or many minutes before I lifted that last cushion? I shall never know. It was an eternity to me and I am not of a sentimental cast, but I have some sort of a conscience and during that interval it awoke.
First I want you to forgive and forget that ill-natured, uncalled-for grumbling of mine this morning when you awakened me." "Why, certainly," said the landlady, again smiling, though quite seriously. "I thank you," said John with dignity. "And, second," he continued "I want your assurance that my extreme confusion and awkwardness on the occasion of our meeting later were rightly interpreted."
He leered after me as I swung down the road, mimicked my gait, as it seemed, in a most uncalled-for way; and when I looked back, he was blowing derisive kisses of farewell with his empty sleeve. I had succeeded, however, in shaking off the recollection between the morning's start and now; so it was annoying that he should force himself on me, just when there was no getting rid of him.
It did not seem uncalled-for, when she began by raising a huge sheet of paper that had been thrown in desperation to veil the confusion upon the table, and which proved to be the Ordnance map of the county, embellished with numerous streaks of paint. 'The outlines of the old Saxon wappentakes, said Louis: 'I was trying to make them out in blue, and the Roman roads in red.
"I I " answered Miss Evelina, almost in a whisper; "I have no money." The Piper laughed heartily and put on his hat again. "Neither have I," he said, between bursts of seemingly uncalled-for merriment, "and probably I'm the only man in these parts who's not looking for it. Did you think I'd ask for pay for working in the garden?"
The technical portions of the case were managed by the lawyer, who issued his subpoenas made voluminous notes wrote out the exordium of his speech and sat up all night committing it to memory. Having done all that the occasion called for in his interview with Ralph, the lawyer proceeded to visit, uncalled-for, one whom he considered a far greater criminal than his client.
"But what for should I be takin' delicht in speakin' o' thae auld unsanctified regardless days," said her grandmother, "that 'tis mony a year since I hae ta'en ony pleesure in thinkin' on? Gae wa', ye hempie that ye are!" she cried, turning with a sudden and uncalled-for sparkle of temper on her granddaughter; "There's nae time an' little inclination in this hoose for yer flichty conversation.
"People would be sure to say that either your words or your deeds were too free, and you might possibly pass a rather uncharitable judgment on me." "What judgment could I pass on you?" "You might think I wanted to impose on you." "That might be, as I should be very much hurt by so sudden and uncalled-for a departure.
If thou dost not hold her to be what thou why dost thou seek to prove her instead of treating her as guilty in the way that may seem best to thee? but if she be as virtuous as thou believest, it is an uncalled-for proceeding to make trial of truth itself, for, after trial, it will but be in the same estimation as before.
A part of the hold was required to be roughly but substantially partitioned off for his security, and on rare occasions this space was fitted with bunks; but as the men usually arrived "all very bare of necessaries" except when pressed afloat, a case we are not now considering any provision for the slinging of hammocks, or the spreading of bedding they did not possess, came to be looked upon as a superfluous and uncalled-for proceeding.
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