The slightest order was received with a black look and
grudgingly and carelessly obeyed.
Half unconscious of what I was doing, I asked a watchman if he could tell me to whom the house belonged; whereupon
grudgingly, and as though he were vexed at something, the fellow muttered that it belonged to one Markov.
After some delay and demur, the door
grudgingly turned on its hinges a very little way, and allowed Mr.
But though it all brought for him thus a dim light, "You 'pitied' him?" he
grudgingly, resentfully asked.
The doors of Skuytercliff were rarely and
grudgingly opened to visitors, and a chilly week-end was the most ever offered to the few thus privileged.
"Well," she conceded
grudgingly, "Jane Andrews is home from the West -- came last week -- and she's going to be married to a Winnipeg millionaire.
The men who happened to pass him on the footpath said "Good-morning"
grudgingly. The women took no notice of him--with one exception.
Smallweed glanced with a troubled eye at us and
grudgingly nodded assent.
"Perhaps not," the Inspector declared, "but, on the other hand, there are certain questions which you can answer me,--answer them, I mean, not
grudgingly and as though in duty bound,--answer them intelligently, and with some apprehension of the things which lie behind."
He did this
grudgingly however, and retained most of his big enterprises of his own.
'It's something,' admitted Lady Wetherby,
grudgingly.
"Now we've got to think of the horrors." She looked
grudgingly at the novel which had once caused her perhaps an hour's discomfort, so that she had never opened it again, but kept it on her table, and looked at it occasionally, as some medieval monk kept a skull, or a crucifix to remind him of the frailty of the body.