It was by no means an easy matter to be time-keeper to such an inconsequent young lady as Blanche, who never realized the unpleasantness of being late till she was brought face to face with Miss Prosser.
With Blanche, however, it was only a momentary feeling of unpleasantness and perplexity as to how Morag, the wise and good, should on this occasion have behaved so badly.
I then informed him of the unpleasantness and unhappiness with my wife, and he said ‘You will never have happiness till she is out of the way.
This was a disagreeable way of putting the business; because it imposed upon me, a perfect stranger, the unpleasantness of asking Mr. Dolloby to rob his family on my account.
I don't think it's a very good plan myself--there is sure to be some little unpleasantness now and then.
You would not be satisfied--either of you--if I said I would marry you just to escape from unpleasantness of this kind.
Gerrard did not possess the art of banishing unpleasantness with a jest, and his brow was clouded as they rode up to his tent between the lines of the Habshiabadis.
But in the evening, as they sat round the lamp, talking of the future, all unpleasantness was forgotten.
The two brothers shook hands as if no unpleasantness had come between them.
There had never been anyunpleasantness connected with Lettice's home-comings.
He is neither to come here, nor to write to her, and we will say nothing about it at home, so that there may be as little unpleasantness as possible if it ends as we hope it may.
I remember that, when I was young enough to play baccarat for high stakes and impressionable enough to be embarrassed by a scene, I stayed in a house where certain unpleasantness took place at the card-table.
Afterwards they went out together, and Katrine hoped that the unpleasantness between them was at an end.
He had smiled with a wry unpleasantness when he had heard her evidently unconscious words.
But one of the forms of unpleasantness most enjoyable to him was the snubbing of any gentle effort at palliating his mood.
Darrin, who had made it a point to forget the brief unpleasantness of the football season, received this rebuke with about the same feelings that a slap in the face would have given him.
All I recall, Jetson, is that, at the outset of my football practice, there was some little unpleasantness between us.
If there had been unpleasantness in the cabin on the raft, St. Pierre's wife in no way gave evidence of it.
But whether a girl or a woman, she had handled him so cleverly that the unpleasantness of his earlier experience began to give way slowly to an admiration for her capability.
He told her of his intention of making a journey to Australia, to visit the last resting-place of his father; and after an extended journey, he hoped to come back and find all the unpleasantnessin the past forgiven and forgotten.
The house had probably been very popular the day before, and there was an air of confusion about the place that added its unpleasantness to the atmosphere that must be breathed by those that sought the hospitality of the house.
Try and make him forget the unpleasantness that has occurred," and Dexie looked up with a smile at Traverse, as he followed his friend from the room, and then turned to her other guests.
Both these officers saw the difficulty under which their host laboured, and sought by every gentlemanly attention, to remove whatever unpleasantness might lurk in the feelings of his American guests.
The reader will notice that Mr. Holter spoke of having “a little unpleasantness with the road agents.
That was my first winter’s work in Montana, and it was a hard one, too; part of it was all the more trying because I had my face cut up in a little unpleasantness with the road agents about that time.
While the unpleasantness was in progress the court and the jury had fled for dear life, and when harmony was restored they were nowhere to be found.
One of our maids was going to be married, and a dispute, or some unpleasantness occurred between her and the intended husband.
No unpleasantness whatever has attended my engagement with Miss Channing.
In the midst of it, Tom Channing breathed freely; Ketch's preferring the complaint, did away with the unpleasantness he had feared might arise, through having been forced to disclose it to the master.
He might recognize their possible existence, he might recognize the possibility of being called upon to cross them, even recognize to the full all the unpleasantness he would find on the other side.
It is whispered that during " the late unpleasantness " the Ohio regiments could out-yell the Louisiana tigers, or any other Confederate troops, two to one.
The hermit found it a great affliction, for the population of the district was kept away by the unpleasantness of Tregeagle's presence.
He had another unpleasantness with a woman Joanna, who lived near, who was a rigid vegetarian, and quarrelled with the saint for catching his fish on Sunday.
It is an unpleasant thing, at any time, to have one's back turned towards a stealthy follower of undeclared intentions, but moonlight and a lonely coast add still further unpleasantness to the situation.
Nevertheless some unpleasantness resulted, and our Albert Edward came home to shelter in the bosom of us, his family.
The unpleasantness spread, for twenty-four hours later came a chit for our Albert Edward, saying if he had nothing better to do would he drop in and swoop yarns with the General at noon that day?
Those are points that strangers invited for a few days' shooting very often fall foul of, creating thereby much unpleasantness for their host through their ignorance and inexperience.
An introduction to an English resident in either town or city obviates any unpleasantness of this nature, as one so situated is generally kept au courant with all that takes place in society at home.
The interview left a sense of possible unpleasantness looming ahead of us.
There was unpleasantness over this kind of divergence, and they would say despairingly, "Oh!
In fact my father used to confess that it was only the unpleasantness of the thing that upset him, and that for all practical purposes Jerry's fingers might have been made of cottonwool for all the harm they could do.
There was unpleasantness all round then, and in the row somebody knocked one o' Henery's teeth out.
Tom Fernlea and several others of his set would anyhow stick to him, and as he would be met in their company it was of no use pretending to ignore his presence; it would indeed only cause unpleasantness and disagreement.
