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It was beastly rude of me to laugh, but I'm quite sure you'll forgive me when you know the facts or, at least, the fact, and that is as follows, as they say in the newspapers. When I tell you that your sweetheart drove my sweetheart up to the house to-day from Settle " "What, Norah Castellan!" exclaimed Lennard. "I didn't even know that you had met her before."

"I, sir!" exclaimed Paul, confounded by the charge. "He is, sir; and I can prove it," protested Mr. Hamblin, whose wrath had almost reached the boiling point. "You can return to the Josephine, Captain Kendall," added Mr. Lowington, in his quiet, decisive tone. "Mr. Lowington, I protest " "Mr.

"Oh, father!" exclaimed Fanny. "Hold your peace, Fanny, and let me say my say out. It was very bad then; and when she come back to us, and was took in, so that she might have her bit to eat under an honest roof, it was bad still; for she was a shame to us as had never been shamed afore.

"Why, what's up, Dad?" he exclaimed. "You are off for Watson Siding in twenty minutes, to take charge of the station there nights," said his father. "The regular man is ill, the despatcher had no one else to send, and asked for you, and of course I told him you'd be delighted." "Delighted?

Now, with the air of a conjurer, the waiter just showed them an entremets which he hastened to serve. It was a soufflée. At it, Cassy, just showing the point of her strawberry tongue, exclaimed without rancour: "Ma Tamby has thrown us over." Paliser lit a cigarette. "She may be singing in the private room." Cassy laughed again. "Yes.

He struck it right enough, for the feathers flew from its breast; but to my astonishment the bird, after swooping down as though it were going to fall, recovered itself and flew away straight out of sight. "Tough birds, these geese!" exclaimed Pereira. "They can carry as much lead as a sea-cow." "Very tough indeed," answered Retief doubtfully.

You thought me hard on him, Albinia; but really I could not help being angry with him for so lamentably frightening his father and you. 'Let us see how he is before you find fault with him, said Albinia. 'You're as bad as if you were his mother, or worse! exclaimed Maurice. 'Oh! Maurice, I can't help it!

And he was about to rebuke me hotly, when I told him I had come from Maryland, where I was born. "Why, ye speak like a gentleman!" he exclaimed. "I was informed that all talk like naygurs over there. And is it not so of your redemptioners?" I said that depended upon the master they got. "Then I take it ye are looking for the lawyers, who mostly represent the planters.

It was the principal inlet of the pond, flowing hence from another and larger pond some miles to the westward. "Well, Henry, what do you say?" said the larger boy. "Looks great, doesn't it?" "Ripping, Jack!" exclaimed the other. "I feel like paddling a mile a minute. Let's pick her up and get afloat."

He learned without a tremor that among the triumphs of his inventive genius had been a machine for making ten dollar bills, at which the New York capitalist had exclaimed that the state right for Iowa alone would bring one hundred thousand dollars. Even more remunerative, it would seem, had been his other patent the folding boomerang.