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But he hardly had time to draw these inferences and then take up the newspaper, when the door opened, and another party was ushered into the room by the clerk, who informed him, as he handed a chair, that Mr Forster would return in a few minutes. The personage thus introduced was a short young man, with a round face, bushy eyebrows, and dogged countenance, implying wilfulness without ill-nature.
'What value you men must attach to this gift of your affection, when it can nourish such thoughts as these! Your very wilfulness is to win us is not that your theory? I expect from the man who offers me his heart that he means to share with me his own power and his own ambition to make me the partner of a station that is to give me some pre-eminence I had not known before, nor could gain unaided.
The behavior of Uli, who was not accustomed to such discord in a house, attracted attention and brought down upon him the bitter mockery and scorn of the men, which was aggravated intolerably by other causes. On the very first Saturday the milker refused, out of sheer wilfulness, to attend to the manure, but let it go till Sunday morning.
Like the Greek sculpture, they are plainly the production of culture, which in restraining wilfulness, however happily inspired, and imposing measure and poise, nevertheless acutely stimulates and develops the faculties themselves.
"They refused, as you know; and I am here tonight to make a final plea, so that they may escape the consequences of their wilfulness." "You're a crook! And the more I see of you, Avec, the more easily I can understand why they turned you down!" "So you too, are prejudiced against me. I cannot understand this. My motives are quite above question, I assure you." "Really!" I observed sarcastically.
"But me no buts," said Brandon, quickly, but with an affectionate tone of wilfulness; "and now, as I feel very much fatigued with my journey, you must allow me to seek my own room." "I will conduct you to it myself," said Lucy, for she was anxious to show her father's brother the care and forethought which she had lavished on her arrangements for his comfort.
"Ah, that is the trouble," said Virginia. "What do you mean?" her cousin demanded. "We have been gentlemen too long," said Virginia. The boy straightened up and rose. The pride and wilfulness of generations was indeed in his handsome face. And something else went with it. Around the mouth a grave tinge of indulgence. "What has your life been?" she went on, speaking rapidly.
They were really mad and vicious, insomuch that there was obliged to be a guard of soldiers to protect the presbytery. Dirt was flung upon us as we passed, and the finger of scorn held out to me. But I endured it with a resigned spirit, compassionating their wilfulness and blindness.
He had heard, or would acknowledge to have heard, no rumours of the hostile intentions of his father's cousin; only, he observed, "He is an old man," with a gesture that implied wilfulness.
"They made most of it on confetti, too, although they sold quantities of flowers. They turned in seventy-five dollars." "Eleanor certainly did work," observed Anne. "One feels as though one could forgive her all her sins after the success she made of her booth. It is a shame that so much ability and cleverness is choked and crowded out by wilfulness and temper."
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