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Neither carried a weapon in sight. Bell swept the big room in one flashing blue glance took in Lane and the prone figures on the floor. "Well, I'll be damned," he ejaculated. "What am I up against?" "Hello, Chief," replied Lane, coolly. "Don't get fussed up now. This is no murder case." "Lane, what's this mean?" burst out Bell.
Fussed by kind-hearted, though, somewhat scandalised Lady Gruntham, driven to the point of madness by the never-ending stream of wisdom, advice, and plans which from morning till night flowed unceasingly from the store of Mary's book-gleaned knowledge, Jill had cleared up the situation all round by suddenly announcing the imaginative fact that Hahmed was coming to Cairo to fetch her home.
She kept me uneasy for ten minutes and the best I could do was to admit finally that I wasn't feeling very well. Whereupon she made me go to bed and fussed over me all the evening and worried all the next day. I reported for work as usual in the morning and found we had a new foreman.
The Court was rent with applause, and the Judge commented very severely on such a breach of decorum, apparently unknown to him in previous annals of our courts of justice. Lady Shillito fainted and the nurse fussed, and the Judge in his private room sent for Mr. Williams and complimented him handsomely on his magnificent conduct of the case.
He liked companionship, but he wouldn't be petted, or fussed over, or sit in any one's lap a moment; he always extricated himself from such familiarity with dignity and with no show of temper. If there was any petting to be done, however, he chose to do it.
Now, dear, lie back in that chair. No; you are not to come in to dinner. It shall be sent to you here on a tray." For the rest of the evening Pauline was so pitied and fussed over, and made so thoroughly comfortable, that she began to think the black, black lie she had uttered quite a good thing. "Here am I half out of my scrape," she thought.
He fussed about, explaining with the loving and painstaking minuteness of the designer as well as the owner, the various contraptions the boat contained, and when he had finished, Merriman felt that, could he but remember his instructions, there were few situations with which he could not cope or by which he could be taken unawares.
Ida fussed and scolded over the new girls all day. The sweetness of her entire neglect of me! By that noon my feet hardly hurt at all. I sit in a quiet corner to eat rye-bread sandwiches brought from home, gambling on whom I will draw for luncheon company. Six colored girls sit down at my table. A good part of the time they spend growling on the subject of overtime.
"Birds," he said, "animals, insects, vegetable life they all eat each other more or less, but they don't fuss about it." Malloring turned abruptly and went down the path. Fuss! He never fussed. Fuss! The word was an insult, addressed to him!
They spoil everything. I never taught anybody anything in all my life. And I never went to Sunday-school either, except in Germany. She will just have to get some one else," she fussed. "A promise like that doesn't count. I was so sleepy I didn't know what I was saying."
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