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Jack, a good deal subdued by what Olympia had left unsaid, rather than what she had said, blurted out: "It was a campus shindy: Vint led the rebel side and they got licked, that's all." "Oh, was that all?" Olympia had ended her search in the basket and fastened a glance of satiric good humor upon the culprit, which did not tend to relieve the awkwardness of the moment.
In her mittened hands the stranger carried a package. Sight of it caused the matron to stare. Her wonder grew as the woman handed it to her. "If you please, ma'am," blurted forth the stranger, red with embarrassment, "I hope you won't feel hard towards me. I know I oughtta come to you before. My husband found this here package in a rubbish can. He works for the town, collectin' rubbish.
You gave me no information." "Which means that I did, of course, and blurted out everything in my stupid, headlong fashion," sighed Nan dolefully. "It doesn't matter much in this case, for a good many people know; but mother wishes it kept as quiet as possible, because " "Just so.
"Gideon has always had his own way, Cap'n Sproul," she faltered. "I hope you won't feel too bitter against him. It would be awful he so headstrong and you so so brave!" She choked this last out, unclasping her hands. "Well, I ain't no coward, and I never was," blurted the Cap'n. "It's the bravest man that overcomes himself," she said. "Now, you have good judgment, Cap'n. My brother is hot-headed.
Rarely did the scion of Southern blood and breeding lose the self- control and reserve on which he prided himself, but he had been harassed by events to an unwonted strain of temper. "Is it making you unhappy to leave any one else here?" he blurted out. The challenge stirred the girl's spirit. "No, indeed! I wouldn't care if I never saw any of them again. I'm tired of it all.
The division superintendent had pounded out something about fuses. What had it been exactly? "Keep fuses burning." With angry gestures he took his coat and cap down, and put them on while he repeated all the instructions that had been forced into his brain with the effect of a physical violence. At the table Joe continued to fumble aimlessly. "Ain't you listening?" Tolliver blurted out. "Huh?"
As the two lieutenants were lighting cigarettes together, Harry, thinking Gholson had left us, blurted out, "Oh, that's all very well for you to say, Ned, but, damn him, he's not the sort of man that has the right to 'suspicion' me of anything; slang-whanging, backbiting sneak, I know what he's here for."
Lady Grebe blurted out what Sir John and Barbara had thought, but had had too much delicacy to express.
Then she reflected. "And what had you been saying to draw such a remark from him?" "I said I didn't want to be married," Beth blurted out with an effort. "How could you tell Count Gustav such a story, Beth?" Mrs. Caldwell asked, shaking her head reproachfully. "It was no story, mamma." "Nonsense, Beth," her mother rejoined. "It is nothing but perverseness that makes you say such things.
"Tell him I am willing to put up ten francs a day and extras for his exclusive services as guide during my stay." Poor Stampa was nearly overwhelmed by this unexpected good fortune. In his agitation he blurted out, "Ah, then, the good God did really send an angel to my help this morning!"
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