 There are few things more annoying than to find one's positive convictions met with incredulity. I could not help feeling impatience at the turn that affairs had taken. I was not proof against the civil sarcasm of the chairman's manner. Most intolerable...  Monsieur Maurice. Leipzig 1873 - Page 179de Amelia B. Edwards - 1873 - 287 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 252 pages
...first statement, and the testimony of the last witness disproves his second. I think we may conclnde that Mr. Langford fell asleep in the train on the...quiet smile lurking about the corners of Benjamin Soraers's mouth, and the half-trinmphant, half-malicious gleam in the eyes of the under-secretary.... | |
 | 1896 - 220 pages
...that Mr. Langford fell asleep in the train on the occasion of his journey to Clay borough, and dreamed an unusually vivid and circumstantial dream, of which,...quiet smile lurking about the corners of Benjamin Somers's mouth, and the half-triumphant, half-malicious gleam in the eyes of the under-secretary. The... | |
 | 1918 - 386 pages
...that Mr. Langford fell asleep in the train on the occasion of his journey to Clayborough, and dreamed an unusually vivid and circumstantial dream, of which,...convictions met with incredulity. I could not help feeling impatient at the turn that affairs had taken. I was not proof against the civil sarcasm of the chairman's... | |
 | 2007 - 1412 pages
...that Mr Langford fell asleep in the train on the occasion of his journey to Clayborough, and dreamed an unusually vivid and circumstantial dream, of which,...quiet smile lurking about the corners of Benjamin Somers's mouth, and the halftriumphant, half-malicious gleam in the eyes of the under-secretary. The... | |
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