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Every word and movement of hers had an exaggerated importance for me. I fancied such things had never been said or done quite in the same way before.” “You were in love,” sighed Thérèse. Why the sigh she could not have told. “I presume so. Well, after that, I found myself thinking of her at the most inopportune moments.
Each time I almost felt my foot give way as I put it down, right before left, left before right. Then I realized that this inopportune flirting with fate must stop; that I must give over dallying with sensations, or it would soon be all over with me. I was falling a prey to the native Lorelei for all these spots in Japan have their familiar devils subjectively, as befits a modern man.
The fear of inopportune benefits was in its way as oppressive as the dread of unmerited misfortune. Laura shook her head impatiently as she threw herself into a chair on the other side of the tall bronze lamp upon the writing table.
But in spite of the former's ostentatious greeting, Brace could see that his visit was inopportune and unwelcome. The sheriff nodded a quick, impatient recognition, which, had it not been accompanied by an anathema on the heat, might have been taken as a personal insult. Neither spoke of Miss Nellie, although it was patent to Brace that they were momentarily expecting her.
Untoward events had thrown this establishment into a state of excited confusion: their nature Lanyard could not surmise, but their conjunction with his designs was exasperatingly inopportune.
In vain the cardinal had taken the field with an army of eighteen thousand foot and fifteen hundred light cavalry. The king had learned so well to entrench himself and to moderate his ardour for inopportune pitched battles, that the relieving force could find, no occasion to effect its purpose. The archduke retired. He came to Amiens like a soldier, said Henry, but he went back like a priest.
Fido looked crestfallen, for could Fido have spoken he would have confessed that he indeed was afflicted with fleas, not with very many fleas, but just enough to interrupt his slumbers and his meditations at the most inopportune moments.
Immune to flattery, she looked at him with an expression which reminded him of a servant girl who knows she is giving notice at an inopportune time. Then she planted her feet still deeper in the sand and bawled at him. "Darn it!" he cried, finally, in his exasperation.
In the Budget Committee, where he met Granet, the minister of to-morrow asked him an inopportune question concerning the expenses of the administration. Vaudrey was angered and felt inclined to treat it as a personal question. It now only remained for his adversaries to begin to suspect him! To appear so was even now too much.
For five centuries, the sole policy of the Senate was to evade these just complaints; and, notwithstanding the energy of the tribunes, notwithstanding the eloquence of the Gracchi, the violence of Marius, and the triumph of Caesar, this execrable policy succeeded only too well. The Senate always temporized; the measures proposed by the tribunes might be good, but they were inopportune.
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