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Early in the day a courier was sent to McMillan with the story of their plight and a request for supplies and more men. These were instantly sent, leaving McMillan himself well nigh helpless, fuming at his own enforced inaction, alone with the Marlow, his personal attendant, a handful of men, and a total of only two rifles, as the sole guard of the caravan for ten more anxious days.
And I am not sure that I want you to come. I shall send you away if you scold." She hung up the receiver and left him fuming. Her high-handed indifference to his authority sent him storming to Derry, "I've half a mind to stay away." "I think I would. It won't do any good to go " But the Doctor went. He still hoped, optimistically, that Hilda might be induced to see the error of her ways.
Austin joined the group, and read the message carefully and deliberately twice through. He asked no questions, but listened to the remarks he heard around him. Then he passed rapidly through the booking-office, and struck out on his way home. Meantime Aunt Charlotte had passed the hours fuming.
Mr. Pole was walking up and down the room, fuming as he spoke. Emilia tried to hold his hand, as he was passing, but he said: "There, my child! I'm very sorry for you, and I'm damned angry with him. Let me go." "Can you, can you be angry with him for loving me?" "Deceiving you," returned Mr. Pole; "that's what it is. And I tell you, I'd rather fifty times the fellow had deceived me.
There was no disagreeableness in her tone: her selfishness was on too gigantic a scale for her ever to be disagreeable. And Dick had turned up the lights and gone fuming from the room, conscious for the time being of a sense of dislike for his mother's perfection! It soon faded though; he had been trained too thoroughly in his youth. Once he said to Mabel hotly: "Why does Mother cry for Dad?
After much discussion, it was decided that a large, vacant farm-house, centrally located, could be purchased and fitted for a schoolhouse at a less expense than the building of a new structure would incur, and in spite of Josiah Boyden's fuming and Nate Burnham's chuckling, in spite of much murmuring on the part of a few frugal minded farmers, the moneyed element carried the day, and under the twinkling stars the triumphant members of that assemblage took their homeward way, filled with the joy of victory.
And still the same flutter of distant, scattering shots came drifting back from the brakes and cañons in the rocky wilds beyond the stream. The guard still pursued and the Indians still led, but they who knew anything well knew it could not be long before the latter turned on the scattering chase, and Byrne strode about, fuming with anxiety.
He was fuming about it when Bates met him in the hall of No. 18 with the whisper: "Them two are waiting here now, sir." Theydon glanced at his watch. The hour was ten minutes past eleven.
That night the girls proved that Grace was not alone in her fondness for sleep. There being no more interruptions in the shape of fuming gentlemen on the trail of runaway daughters, they slept soundly through the long hours while the train plunged onward through the inky blackness of the night.
When he saw, however, where they were taking him, he was comforted, for Rob was almost certain to see him: wherever he was, he was watching the New House! He went composedly along with them therefore, fuming and snorting, not caring to escape. When Rob caught sight of the three, he could not think how it was that his father walked so unlike himself.
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