Miss Ponsonby greeted her quondam patient not with coldness, which may imply an intentionally concealed interest, but lifelessly, with an indifference almost impertinent.
Speaking of Japan," remarked Judge Barton, "have those silks which you promised to get for me come yet?
Yet the effect of her courtesy was an impression not of kindness, but of insolence.
You will never rest till you have gotten some poor wretch cashiered and have driven me off the bench.
When he left the hospital, Collingwood was convalescent, but was suffering from a moroseness which his observant neighbor attributed to thwarted affection.
He felt as if each blow were a lash on the shoulders of the woman facing her, who had turned to leave them.
So long as she fought, he was willing to stab and prick.
