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She said nothing for a moment, and he bluntly demanded, "I was wondering what was in your thoughts just then." Miss Terroll bent forward to look up the avenue before she answered. The 'buses were not running close together at this hour and the lamps of the nearest were still two blocks away. "If I tell you, will you tell me why you spoke my name so chidingly?"
Carroll of her husband, who was sitting near her with a letter in his hand. He had just communicated the fact that a Parish was tendered him in the Village of Y , distant a little over a hundred and fifty miles. "The money is your first thought, Edith," said Mr. Carroll, half chidingly, yet with an affectionate smile. This remark caused a slight flush to pass over the face of Mrs. Carroll.
The child planted herself directly before him, and looked chidingly into his discolored and disfigured face. "Billie Denman," she said, shaking a small finger at him, "of course I'm sorry, but, if you have been fighting when you know it is wrong, why why, it served you right." Had he not been aching in every joint, his nose, his lips, and his eyes, this unjust speech might have amused him.
She leaned forward and tapped his shoulder chidingly with two fingers. "I know what you wish the mos' in the worl' you wish to get into mischief. That is it! No, sir, I will jus' take you in han'!" "When will you take me?" he asked boldly.
"Bobby paid me by taking the clo'es offen the line and bringin' them in every night, and fetchin' the water," she replied chidingly. "We was goin' to keep it a secret till he got enough to buy a pony." "But I'd ruther buy a house," said Bobby. "I ain't got enough to come in no snidikit," sobbed Co. "I ain't saved much." "That's because you spend all you earn on candy," rebuked Milt.
At the cry, and the indescribable movement of the throng, the physician came quick from the lower part of the hall. He made his way abruptly to the bedside, and said chidingly, "Air, give him air."
"Don't blubber, Lou," said the boy, chidingly; "in that case your dago friend is as well off as need be. But I suppose you're afraid the no-account Count won't figure his life is worth thirty thousand dollars. It does seem like an awful price to pay for a foreigner." "It isn't that," said Louise, striving to control her emotion. "He says he hates to be robbed.
It had been three years since she last saw the play. She told herself, chidingly, that she had been sort of foolish over that play and this costume. Her recent glimpse of Haddon had been somewhat disillusioning.
Then, when she saw surely who it was, she cried out half in wonder and half chidingly, as if she had been his mother reproaching him for his tardiness: "What are you doing here, Burr Gordon? Do you know 'tis nearly eight o'clock, and time for your wedding?" "'Tis nearly ten," said Burr, "and there is no wedding." "Nearly ten?" "Yes." "But 'twas not eight by our clock."
And the greatest Dragon of all, who was just in front of the Green Monkey, answered in a still deeper voice: "It is some foolish animal from Outside." "Is it good to eat?" inquired a smaller Dragon beside the great one. "I'm hungry." "Hungry!" exclaimed all the Dragons, in a reproachful chorus; and then the great one said chidingly: "Tut-tut, my son! You've no reason to be hungry at this time."
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