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"Rather hot toggery that, my lads, for weather like this." "Well, of all the impudence!" cried the young officer hotly; and he took a step towards where Rodd was standing. Rodd faced slowly round, looked at the boy superciliously, then said as coolly as could be "Hullo, midshipmite! Not gone below?"
Mass this morning had not been a success from an emotional point of view; he had had an uncomfortable seat on a pitch-pine bench in a tin church with an American organ; the very young priest had been tiresome and antipathetic.... Frank had done his best, but he was tired and bored; the little church had been very hot, and it was no longer any fun to be stared at superciliously by a stout tradesman as he came out into the hot sunshine afterwards.
"Your Highness has chosen excellently. I can bear witness that the Captain Gottfried is a brave a very brave man," she said. And at that moment I was most grateful to her for the testimony. For behind us stood the young Von Reuss, pulling at his mustache and looking very superciliously over at me.
'If so, Fate has scarcely been generous to you. And her lip curled half superciliously as she spoke. 'I'd not say that. I have lived amidst great hopes, many of them dashed, it is true, by disappointment; but who that has been cheered by glorious daydreams has not tasted moments at least of exquisite bliss? 'I don't know that I have much sympathy with political ambitions, said she pettishly.
"He says that you told him to come." My cousin stood drawing on his gloves, and eyed me superciliously. "I think," he remarked, "that that is a mistake, isn't it? I am quite sure that I have never seen you before in my life!" I felt inclined to smile, but the man was watching us. "I have some business with you, sir," I said deferenially.
She hastened to add, "He mentioned that you had come down here to recruit your health; that is all." Cashel's features relaxed into a curious smile. But presently he became suspicious, and said, anxiously, "He didn't tell you anything else about me, did he?" Alice stared at him superciliously. Lydia replied, "No. Nothing else." "I thought you might have heard my name somewhere," he persisted.
I don't hear you. What's the matter?" The seated figure had risen from her chair, and turned a young and pretty face somewhat superciliously towards the stranger, as she said in a low tone to her unseen auditor, "Hush! there is somebody here." The young man came forward with an awkwardness that was more boyish than rustic.
"I meant him to hear," said Andrew loudly; and he stopped and looked back directly. "A miserable, contemptible impostor. I could cure his wretched cough in two minutes with that stick he leans on." The man started as if he had received a blow, and raised his head to glare fiercely at the youth, who was looking him superciliously up and down.
He was 'prevented by the Spirit from speaking in Asia, and driven across the sea against his intention to Neapolis, and hounded out of Philippi and Thessalonica and Beræa; and turned superciliously away from Athens; and so at last found himself in Corinth, face to face with the tentmaker from Rome and his wife.
A grim humour smote him suddenly, and thrusting his hand into his pocket, he brought it out full of money, and rapidly counted it. Then he opened the door of the fashionable tailor's, and walked in. He was regarded, as was to be expected, a trifle superciliously by the immaculately-attired young gentlemen therein.
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