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"Well, if you ask me point-blank, they're not," replied Philip rather crossly. He hated being laughed at, and they laughed again. "And will you tell me what a gentleman is?" asked Weeks. "Oh, I don't know; everyone knows what it is." "Are you a gentleman?" No doubt had ever crossed Philip's mind on the subject, but he knew it was not a thing to state of oneself.

"No, I can't well, never mind the tennis. Why couldn't you couldn't you have warned me if you felt anything wrong? You talked of our wedding at lunch at least, you let me talk." "I knew you wouldn't understand," said Lucy quite crossly. "I might have known there would have been these dreadful explanations.

At this moment I am so much in doubt that I am almost inclined to toss up." "I would sooner cut my throat!" said Sir Thomas, forgetting his wisdom amidst the perplexities of his position. "Not quite that, Sir Thomas. I suppose you mean to say that anything would be better than such a marriage?" "I don't suppose you care for the girl," said Sir Thomas, crossly. "I do not feel uneasy on that score.

"They're used to that," laughed Priscilla. "What are you laughing at, anyway?" Patty asked crossly. "I don't see anything to laugh at in this beastly place. Always having to do what you don't want to do when you most don't want to do it. Just the same, day after day: get up by bells, eat by bells, sleep by bells. I feel like some sort of a delinquent living in an asylum."

I've been up since five this morning. 'Since five! What 'ave you been doin'? 'Dressin' myself and doin' my 'air. I woke up so early. I've been dreamin' all the night abaht it. I simply couldn't sleep. 'Well, you are a caution! said Liza. 'Bust it, I don't go on the spree every day! Oh, I do 'ope I shall enjoy myself. 'Why, you simply dunno where you are! said Liza, a little crossly.

At last she threw down her brushes as if she hated herself for doing it, but realized she could do nothing else. "Mary Rose," she said crossly. Even Mary Rose could see that she was not pleased with something. "I don't feel like painting today. It's too warm or something.

I shed tears, Master Heathcliff, you see an elderly woman, and a servant merely and you, after pretending such affection, and having reason to worship her almost, store every tear you have for yourself, and lie there quite at ease. Ah! you're a heartless, selfish boy! 'I can't stay with her, he answered crossly. 'I'll not stay by myself. She cries so I can't bear it.

Then instead of going out with his usual "I gotta beat it!" he sat languidly on the doorstep in the dusk, and when she anxiously questioned if he were sick he said crossly: "Aw, Gee! Can't ya let a fella alone! I'm all in, can't ya see it? I'm gonta bed!" and knowing he had said the most alarming thing in the whole category he slammed upstairs to his own room and flung himself across his bed.

He saw in it the work of Schryhart, Hand, and others who were trying their best to discredit him. "Let them talk," he declared, crossly. "I have the street-railways. They're not going to rout me out of here. I can sell stocks and bonds to the public direct if need be! There are plenty of private people who are glad to invest in these properties."

George considered himself infinitely more mature than in the November of 1901 when the old man had worsted him. And yet he was no more equal to this situation than he had been to the former one. "But what am I to do, then?" he demanded, not fiercely, but crossly. "What are you to do? Don't ask me, sir.