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He suffered almost as deeply at tax time as Pap himself did, and he considered the money Sally had to pay in installments on Sir Walter Scott as practically thrown away, and that she might as well have taken it out of his own pocket. He knocked on the lower step of the porch, with the side of his ax, angrily. "You git out of this here yard!" he ordered.

The two young engineers placed themselves at the head of the squad, and succeeded quickly in opening up a passage through a crowd that seemed to be at least half hostile. Thus Tom found himself soon face to face with an American. "Evarts!" Reade cried, angrily. "What are you doing here?" "I'm here by permission," snarled the discharged foreman. "Whose permission?" Tom insisted, briskly. "Mr.

'Why didn't he come himself? she asked somewhat inconsequently, and going off on another tack at once. 'I can't understand how a man of any spirit can make love by deputy. 'Kings do sometimes, the Dictator said. Helena blushed again. Some thought was passing through her mind which was not in his. She had called him her king. 'Mr. Hamilton is not a king, she said almost angrily.

The meal was approaching an end, when Junker von Warmond entered unannounced, and requested the burgomaster to accompany him at once, for Colonel Chester was standing before the White Gate with a portion of his troops, asking admittance to the city. At these tidings, Peter dashed his mug of beer angrily on the table, sprang from his seat, and left the room before the nobleman.

"I do not know what you are talking about," the girl exclaimed, angrily. "I know nothing about any woman. You must pardon me, Mr. Bradley, if I decline to be questioned in this way any further." She moved toward the door. "Then you wish me to understand that the woman who just left this house did not come here with you?" "Understand anything you please. I decline to be questioned any further."

For the America he knew was like what I'd seen on the upper decks of the ship that had sailed a few hours before. And I could not get back my old zest for it all, I kept thinking of what I had seen underneath. The faces of individual stokers, some fiery red, some sodden gray, kept bobbing up in my memory. Angrily trying to keep them down, I went on with my questions.

It was then that Penelope came back to the hall to speak to the stranger. One of her handmaidens, Melantho by name, was there, and she was speaking angrily to him. Now this Melantho was proud and hard of heart because Antinous often conversed with her. As Penelope came near she was saying: 'Stranger, art thou still here, prying things out and spying on the servants?

An old woman with a broom in her hand was glaring angrily at him. At last, she said: "Clear out, you blackguard! Clear out! What right has anyone to get drunk like this?" He sat up in bed, feeling very ill at ease. He asked: "Where am I?" "Where are you, you dirty scamp? You are drunk. Take your rotten carcass out of here as quick as you can and lose no time about it!" He wanted to get up.

They looked angrily at each other when Max explained how the woods boy had found traces of some intruder who had actually entered his lone cabin while he, Obed, was away in their company; also telling how the other strongly suspected that a dastardly plot had been hatched, looking to the robbing of the pens connected with the silver fox fur farm.

She held the paper nearer and read: "'A Paris journal publishes a despatch through l'agence Havas which declares that a deputation from the Spanish Government has left Madrid for Berlin to offer the crown of Spain to Leopold von Hohenzollern." "What!" cried the vicomte, angrily. Two chessmen tipped over and rolled among the others.