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The handsome Vera, who produced such an irritating and unpleasant effect on everyone, smiled and, evidently unmoved by what had been said to her, went to the looking glass and arranged her hair and scarf. Looking at her own handsome face she seemed to become still colder and calmer. In the drawing room the conversation was still going on.
To escape from him was the first idea, for his clownish manners, always unpleasant to her, had become doubly so, since he had presumed upon her brother's favour to offer to her addresses from which she saw no escape; and with a brief reply of "Thanks for your courtesy, Sir Knight," she was about to rise and mingle with the rest of the party, when he proceeded, bluntly, "Lady Agnes, will you do me a favour?"
Blood will out; and you have certainly a choice idea of how to make yourself unpleasant." Never a word said my lord; it was just as though the Master had not broken silence. "Come," resumed the Master, "do not be sulky; it will spoil your attitude. I had meant to continue this performance till I had gathered enough money for a certain purpose; I confess ingenuously, I have not the courage.
The scene was gloomy and unpleasant; the change from the mountains of the west depressing; and, for my part, I cannot remember anything agreeable in this raw little suburb. American life half a century ago had a great deal of rawness about it, and its external aspect was ugly beyond present belief.
Yes, on what grounds? Whose word is entitled to more credit than that of Charles? That's it! The name the name of the base slanderer. I know it is some villain. Father! how can you deny him the only means of defense? 'Unpleasant rencounter! yes, to the vile miscreants, no doubt. 'Confidence! My life! isn't Charles worthy of confidence, too?
"I remember Captain Hunsden," Lady Kingsland said, thoughtfully, "and I remember this girl, too, when she was a child of three or four years. He was a very handsome man, I recollect, and he married away in Canada or the United States. There was some mystery about that marriage something vague and unpleasant no one knew what. She ought to be pretty, this daughter." "Pretty!"
Some of the garments not those worn by the British prisoners had become infested with vermin to such a degree as to constitute a plague and were now absolutely repulsive. Two of the British prisoners, who happened to be engineers, were selected for this unpleasant task, and it proved to be of such a trying nature that both men narrowly escaped suffocation in the process.
Owing to the terrible uproar and the necessity for concentration and activity, Tushin did not experience the slightest unpleasant sense of fear, and the thought that he might be killed or badly wounded never occurred to him. On the contrary, he became more and more elated.
"Not in the least. We did not stay late," replied Corona, secretly wondering why he had come. "It was really magnificent," he answered. "There has been no such ball for years. Very unfortunate that it should have terminated in such an unpleasant way," he added, making a bold dash at the subject of which he wished to speak. "Very. You did a bad morning's work," said the Duchessa, severely.
The next letter that came from Blandford Square, dated 9th December, 1861, was also a joint one, the larger portion of which however is from her pen. "DEAR GOOD PEOPLE, If your ears burn as often as you are talked about in this house, there must be an unpleasant amount of aural circulation to endure!
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