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"Oh, by all means," the author sardonically answered; "if the current editor has demands beyond freshness and goodness, let the young writer avoid the masters in literature and study the stories in the current magazines." "You are not treating the matter seriously," we expostulated. "Yes, I am seriously, sadly, even tragically.
"Why didn't you make it in the forenoon?" she demanded. "What for? It is only a difference of a few hours," he replied. "And don't you think a few hours is anything to me?" she cried, bursting into hysterical tears. "You must not be so confident," he expostulated. "It scares me to see you so when you are so likely to be disappointed. Even the doctor said he could not promise success.
So I am prepared to say to you here and now, if such was the case, and you will immediately restore my property to me, I will say nothing about it. If you refuse, it will go hard with you." "But Mr. Dennison!" expostulated Frank, "we have never so much as set eyes on any sort of a gold loving cup, so you can see how impossible it would be for us to hand it over to you."
"You simpleton," expostulated Darry, "are you going to spoil Dick's reward by letting a chump cook attend to the trout? Dick wants to cook his trout for himself, but we'll do everything else. I'll appoint myself to make the coffee for all hands." Dick soon had a pan full of trout ready for his own plate.
He motioned him away with the muzzle of his pistol while his wife laid a hand on his arm, and after one look the hobo turned and loped over the top of the hill. "Now Andrew, please," expostulated Mrs. Hill, and, still breathing hard, Old Bunk put up his gun and reached for a chew of tobacco. "Well, all right," he growled, "but you heard what I said that's the last doggoned hobo we feed."
"Frieda will never forgive me for that," she added; "I guess I can never hope to become her friend!" "I guess you don't care much!" remarked Ethel, with a touch of sarcasm in her tone. "Well, I don't believe it's going to do any good!" she flashed back. "You mark my words Frieda Hammer can't be trusted!" "Girls!" expostulated Miss Phillips again. "Come to order!
Instead it'll be jeers, and taunts, and every sort of thing calculated to sting." "But after the game's been won?" expostulated Thad. "Oh, that's a different thing," admitted his chum. "Then we feel that we can afford to be generous without being put in a possible hole. Every true player is ready to take off his cap and give a beaten rival a hearty cheer.
There was a little gray wind out in the meadows that night, and it danced along beside us on viewless, fairy feet, and sang a delicate song of the lovely, waiting years, while the night laid her beautiful hands of blessing over the world. "You see what Peg's wishbone did," said Peter triumphantly. "Now, look here, Peter, don't talk nonsense," expostulated Dan.
"Digby Trotter, we may carry on our nefarious robberies as individuals, but I don't intend to form a partnership in the business. I don't approve of doing it collectively." "But what will we do with the money? Burn it?" "I thought you wanted to give it back to its owner." "But he won't miss it not just yet, anyhow," he expostulated.
"Oh, Lady of the Roses!" expostulated David in a voice quivering with shocked dismay. "You don't mean you can't mean that you don't have ANY sun!" "I mean just that," bowed Miss Holbrook wearily, her eyes on the somber shadows of the pool; "just that!" David sat stunned, confounded.
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