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'But that is rather selfish; Eva is living in the same house with you, and yet you take no notice of her except at meal-times, and the poor girl is lonely, expostulated Stella. 'She can go out with you and Amy. Amy was her friend before she came to live with us, why shouldn't she be friends with her still? argued Vava.

"Pardon me," expostulated Chichikov, "but that procedure will take up a great deal of time. Why need I put the matter into writing at all? It is simply this. I want a few souls which are well, which are, so to speak, dead." "Very good," commented the Colonel. "Do you write down in your Statement of Plea that the souls which you desire are, 'so to speak, dead."

His eyes were cruel, and he had the angry pallor of a dangerous man. "I'll save you a lot of trouble." "Why not do it legal?" expostulated Lee. "It's just as certain." "Yes! Lee is right," echoed the crowd, bent on a Roman holiday. "What y'all aim to do?" whined the thief.

The others shouted approval, Peter adding with a grin, a moment later: "And we might call the observation car 'Luke'!" "Oh, PETER!" Kennedy expostulated, laughing. She presently interrupted the completing details of the private train by general suggestions of bed. The four girls went upstairs together.

"I don't care!" "But, hell, man, you don't want to get in the wrong that bad. They shoot fellers for less than you said." "Let them." "Christ, man, you don't want to be a damn fool," expostulated Fuselli. "How old are you, Fuselli?" "I'm twenty now." "I'm thirty. I've lived more, kid. I know what's good and what's bad. This butchery makes me unhappy." "God, I know. It's a hell of a note.

"Indeed it wasn't mine!" expostulated madam, "though I'm deeply indebted to somebody. Who was it, Doyle?" "Docther Bentley, ma'am. He said I was to keep it dark, ma'am 'an' in the coolest place I could find " But here the peals of laughter silenced the words and rang the glad tidings to listening, waiting ears in the kitchen that all was well. Mrs.

You fellows are going ahead at such a rate that I can't keep track of you, unless I have an engagement book for your especial benefit." "Bobby!" Sally expostulated. "Mr. Arlt's suite is to be played, Saturday, and Mr. Thayer is to be the soloist for the concert. You oughtn't to have forgotten that, especially when you asked me to go with you." "Oh, yes; I do remember now," Bobby replied serenely.

And you might try to rescue my saddle from the porter. He's probably got it by now." Three minutes later a figure in a sweater, gray trousers, canvas shoes, Third Trinity blazer and no cap, stood, very inarticulate with breathlessness, at the door of the Senior Dean's rooms, demanding of a scandalized bed-maker to see the official in question. "'E's in his barth, sir!" expostulated the old woman.

"Lookit here, boys," he said earnestly, "that ther big mag'strate him as you call Gully is that his real name? Wher does he come from? What countryman is he?" "English!" answered Yorke shortly. "Why? D'ye think an Englishman has to run around with a blooming alias?" "Well, now, yu' needn't go t' git huffy with a man!" expostulated Moran, with an injured air.

"Of course I was hustled out of the court and flung into the street by the police attendants, and I groped my way back to my hotel with eyes blinded with tears of rage and sorrow. "That afternoon I was requested by the proprietor of the hotel to leave before nightfall. I expostulated in vain.