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It's nothing!" said Betsy, rather impatiently. "He's just playing. We often play with him, Shep and I." The calf came a little nearer, with lowered head. "GET away!" said Betsy indifferently, kicking at him. At this hint of masterfulness on Betsy's part, Aunt Frances cried out, "Oh, yes, Betsy, DO make him go away! Do make him go away!"
That Bothwell had been her friend in the hour when she had needed friends, and knew not whom she might trust; that by his masterfulness he seemed a man upon whom a woman might lean with confidence, may account for the beginnings of the extraordinary influence he came so swiftly to exercise over her, and the passion he awakened in her to such a degree that she was unable to dissemble it.
The congregation giggled. The black grapes and the chenille spots trembled. 'How very unpleasant! thought the old lady. Then Edward spoke, and his voice had an edge of masterfulness that astonished Mr. James. 'Let be, he said. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold. Them also will I bring." She has the same master, James. Silence fell.
"Talk about masterfulness," he would say, when she whipped off his coat or made a dart at the mud on his trousers; "you are the most masterful little besom I ever clapped eyes on." But as he said it he perhaps crossed his legs, and she immediately cried, "You have missed two holes in lacing your boots!"
Then with tender masterfulness two strong arms were flung about her and her face was drawn close to his across the vine-twined gate until her lips touched his. One long clinging kiss of tenderness he gave her and held her head close against his breast for just a moment while he murmured: “My darling! My precious, precious Kate, I have you at last!” The spell was broken!
He could get along with as little sleep as Napoleon is said to have required when a mighty battle was on. Edison could lie down on a settee or table and sleep just as the Little Corporal did even while cannon were booming all around him. "There was something Napoleonic, also, about Edison's intensity of application and his masterfulness in his gigantic undertakings.
Her eyes looked like two black stains, solemn and haunting as they fastened up on this intruder who would not be refused. Her lips parted, but she had no word for him. She just stared in a horror that routed all his audacity and checked the masterfulness of his advance. At last he spoke. "I see that you have heard," said he, "the lie that runs the countryside. That is evil enough.
"It sounds almighty complicated for a plot," said the Cap'n. In his heart he resented Hiram's masterfulness and his secretiveness. "This ain't no timber-land deal," retorted Hiram, smartly, and with cutting sarcasm. "You may know how to sail a ship and lick Portygee sailors, but there's some things that you can afford to take advice in."
Here was a pleasant change from King's masterfulness, and she fully intended to hold Gratton well in hand. "I came to you," she said frankly, "because I was a woman in distress and had no alternative. That there has ever been any unpleasantness between us does not alter that fact. You understand me, don't you?" He hardly heard her. To his mind the situation was clearness itself.
And also, she to stir me odd whiles unto masterfulness; and so you to know pretty well how it did be with me in the matter.
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