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Updated: June 16, 2025
Being diffident, I sought a mask in violence. I wanted to assert myself, to show the women that I was not to be driven, and Hammerfeldt that I was not to be led. Neither their brusque insistence nor his suave and dexterous suggestions should control me or prevent me from exercising my own will.
And when, a little later, I myself knocked at the door, I got a reception that surprised me beyond measure. "Who dah," the cook cried in his usual brusque voice. "Who dah knockin' at mah door?" Coming out, he brushed past me, and stood staring fiercely from side to side.
And, as he felt keenly the brusque manner of the judge, he added: "It is you, Doctor, who hold the match." M. Gendron was about to leave the room, when Baptiste, the mayor's servant the man who wouldn't be scolded appeared. He bowed and said: "I have come for Monsieur the Mayor." "For me? why?" asked M. Courtois. "What's the matter? They don't give me a minute's rest! Answer that I am busy."
Hungerford had left the Occidental Company's service, and had been fortunate enough to get the position of first officer on a line of steamers running between England and the West Indies. The letter was brusque, incisive, and forceful, and declared that, once he got his foot firmly planted in his new position, he would get married and be done with it.
I had not believed that this serious and sometimes brusque man could talk so sweetly. When the solemnity was over, I received the first kiss from my sweet betrothed, and the assurance of her great love for me. At supper and later on we were very merry. Many of the dead mother's kin were present. The rector's family were too far away.
They may have been intolerant, narrow-minded, brusque and rough in manners, and with little love or appreciation of art; they may have been opinionated and self-sufficient: but they were loyal to duties and to their "Invisible King." Above all things, they were tenacious of their rights, and scrupled no sacrifices to secure them, and to perpetuate them among their children.
I got up, trembling, moved myself by the sight of a sorrow I did not comprehend, and I took her by the hand with an impulse of brusque affection, a true French impulse which impels one quicker than one thinks. She let her hands rest in mine for a few seconds, and I felt them quiver as if her whole nervous system was twisting and turning.
The brown and golden harmonies he loved, are gained without sacrifice of lustre: there is a self-restraint in his colouring which corresponds to the reserve of his emotion; and though a regret sometimes rises in our mind that he should have modelled the light and shade upon his faces with a brusque, unpleasing hardness, their pallor dwells within our memory as something delicately sought if not consummately attained.
He announced in a brusque, insolent tone and manner, that Mr. Gosford had not died at the time his death was announced to her, having then only fallen into a state of syncope, from which he had unexpectedly recovered, and had lived six months longer.
Look here ask Mrs. Northrop to let you come out with me. We'll go to the solicitor together and see about that reward at once." As they presently walked down to the town Brereton gave Avice another of his critical looks of inspection. "You're feeling better," he said in his somewhat brusque fashion. "Is it this bit of good news?" "That and the sense of doing something," she answered.
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