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The truth is, not having had a comfortable night's rest for some time, I was very sleepy, which will account for my apparent indifference to the near neighbourhood of such unsatisfactory gentry. In spite of snarling, and barking, and howling, and growling, and every other variety of noise which the genus canis, whether in a tame or wild state, is capable of making, I slept on.
Uncle was in a frightful temper, growling about the journey and about the handbaggage, I think they must have had 8 or 10 packages, at least I had to carry a heavy travelling rug and Dora a handbag of which she said that it contained the accumulated rubbish of 10 years.
I was unused to oaths at that time and they cut me like whipcord, but all the same my pulse was bounding joyfully. "Bad luck, my lord, but only one thing to do now," shouted the valet. "What's that?" said my husband, growling. "Sleep in Blackwater to-night, in hopes of weather mending in the morning." Anticipating this course, he had already engaged rooms for us at the "Fort George."
I never met so hilarious a crowd as the first batch of wounded from the fighting of 25th September 1915. We had been prepared for a 'rush. The growling of the guns had for days past been growing deeper and more extended. It is, as a matter of fact, impossible to keep a future offensive concealed.
This was a piece of sheer bullying, undertaken solely with the purpose of driving away the man and feasting on the carcasses; for in each charge the three bears, after advancing with much blustering, roaring, and growling, halted just before coming to close quarters. In another instance a gentleman I once knew, a Mr.
The phrase stuck to him. All day long he went about their rooms or continued at his work in the "Parlors," growling behind his thick mustache: "I ain't going to quit for just a piece of paper. No, I ain't going to quit for just a piece of paper. Sure not." The days passed, a week went by, McTeague continued his work as usual.
Their expense then was mutual, unless when Lovel occasionally slipt a shilling into the hand of a growling postilion; for Oldbuck, tenacious of ancient customs, never extended his guerdon beyond eighteen-pence a stage. In this manner they travelled, until they arrived at Fairport* about two o'clock on the following day.
At that, I jumped back, in sudden fright, and threw my gun forward, in readiness; only to laugh, nervously, as Pepper reappeared, chasing an unfortunate cat. Toward evening, I gave up the search, and returned to the house. All at once, as we were passing a great clump of bushes, on our right, Pepper disappeared, and I could hear him sniffing and growling among them, in a suspicious manner.
Nicholas, who had nearly slept off the effects of the wine, answered with an unintelligible sort of growling. "Brother Nicholas, I say, brother Nicholas, will you get up, or lie here all night?" "They shall be cleaned and ready by to-morrow morning," replied Nicholas, dreaming. "Humph! that's more than you will be, apparently, I say, brother Nicholas."
I've no notion of being made to look small before your uncle, and I don't stomach it." He turned away growling. He had spoken only of the repaid loan, but they both knew that this had nothing to do with his ill temper. At the door he faced round again. "What were you talking about when I came in?" he asked suspiciously. "Uncle was congratulating us.
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