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That's quite all right, anyhow, for we're not doing anyone any harm. But soon they start bothering you and the policeman walks up and down and stops occasionally, with his ear to the door. To put it in a nutshell, the chief of police and his gang are a lot of joykillers who decide they want to put a stop to your fun, see? But by God!
Mike got up and walked back to his easy chair. He had no sooner sat down than the phone chimed again. Damn! Up again. Back to the phone. "Gabriel speaking." Again, no image formed. "Look, lady," Mike said, "why don't you look up the number you want instead of bothering me?" Suddenly there was an image.
To fathom this space we thrust over a big stone. No sound came back. The pit was bottomless the grave of the world. The mystery fascinated, the void beckoned. We scarcely knew why we did not obey the summons why we did not abandon the present, and, by following the big stone, escape to the future." And yet he had no urgent creditors bothering him.
"Why " began Polly, and then she finished very slowly, "I shan't know anything, and Ben'll be ashamed of me. "Yes, you will!" cried Mrs. Pepper, energetically, "you keep on trying, and the Lord'll send some way; don't you go to bothering your head about it now, Polly it'll come when it's time." "Will it?" asked Polly, doubtfully, taking up her needle again. "Yes, indeed!" cried Mrs.
He stopped at a forbidding look in the man's eye. For a moment he seemed to be puzzled. Then he understood that it was the presence of Fred, a stranger, that was bothering Ivan. "Oh!" he cried, with a laugh. "Ivan, you may speak before this stranger as freely as before me. Let him be a stranger to you no longer.
I dare say. I'm afraid politics don't interest me very much," said Lady Drakmanton. The three Miss Smithly-Dubbs put down their cups of Turkish coffee and stared. Then they broke into protesting giggles. "Of course, you're joking," they said. "Not me," was the disconcerting answer; "I can't make head or tail of these bothering old politics. Never could, and never want to.
"Listen," he said. "Listen!" Then he slumped back in his chair and closed his eyes. "Lemme sleep, Corbett. Lemme sleep, I tell you." He turned his back and in a moment was making sounds of deep slumber, but Tom felt sure that Roger was not asleep that he was wide awake, with something seriously bothering him.
I presume there must have been something of an inquiring Yankee twist to my make-up, for the boys called me "Jacob the delver," mainly because of my constant bothering with the sewerage of our house, which was of the most primitive kind. An open gutter that was full of rats led under the house to the likewise open gutter of the street.
'There's been no peace at Marshlands since he took that cottage a regular old nuisance and mischief-maker, spiting the Captain because one of the dogs killed his old cock, and bothering Charlie to no end about him.
"He had a big raw welt across one cheek a wicked thing to look at! You've noticed it, I see. Well, he stood there fingering it a little, trying to think of a way to begin gracefully. Then he got out the paper with the account of Jed The Red's last go in it and jumped right into the middle of all that was bothering him.
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