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"She don't look like a missionary, if that's what you mean," said Samantha hotly. "She may not be called 'n' elected to traipse over to Africy with a Test'ment in one hand 'n' a sun umbreller in the other, savin' souls by the wholesale; but 't ain't no mean service to go through the world stealin' into folks' hearts like a ray o' sunshine, 'n' lightin' up every place you step foot in!"

Yet the fame of the poet was waning when he died, and has been hotly disputed since; though, as it seems to me, these later years have seen the partial return of an ebbing tide.

"These affairs don't concern you," he said, after a moment's incredulous scrutiny of her face. "Why did you refuse to make him a judge?" she repeated hotly. "Ludlow is a discredited political hack. I had no alternative." "It's jealousy." Shelby whitened. "If you mean to press the thing into that region," he answered sternly, "I'll own that there is an element of jealousy.

You'll have to pay for this!" Another man, who appeared to be the proprietor, now came from a wagon in the rear of the cavalcade. "What's that about damages?" he cried. "I'll pay nothing! I have a permit to travel on the highway!" "You have no right to scare horses!" Willis retorted. "Your lion made a horrible noise." "His noise wasn't worse than your hog stench!" the showman rejoined hotly.

"You don't go on smoking that thing till you have apologized for that grin you had on your phiz a moment ago." "I laugh when I please, and I smoke what I please," said Henderson, hotly, his face flaming as he realized that he was in for his first "row." That was how it began.

Sisters uniformly object to a little civility to a pretty girl," carelessly answered Wilfred. "Nonsense!" returned Mysie, hotly. "We don't care! only it is not fair on Mr. Delrio." "The painter cad! A very good thing too! The sacrifice ought to be prevented. Is not that the general sentiment?"

"I am sure, 'sir," he began in a whining voice, "that I crave your forbearance for this prodigious, stupid mistake I have made." "Mistake!" I exclaimed hotly; "you mean to say, sir, that you have brought me back for nothing?" The man's eye shifted, and he made me another bow. "I scarce know what to say, Mr.

"I do not know," replied the lawyer calmly. "The window was open and I suspect that he used it as a means of exit." "Are you not aware that you are a party to an escape a crime?" hotly challenged the judge. "I most respectfully deny the charge," returned Mr. Tutt. "I told you to take the prisoner into that room and give him the best advice you could." "I did!" interjected the lawyer.

In less than two minutes the work was done, lighted torches were applied to the faggots, and the flames soon shot up hotly. The Scots waited but a minute or two to see that the work was thoroughly done and that the flames had got fair hold, and then, keeping in a close body, they retired to the castle.

Sir Meeson Corby referred to an argument Lord Fleetwood had held on an occasion hotly against the logical consistency of the Protestant faith; and to his alarm lest some day 'all that immense amount of money should slip away from us to favour the machinations of Roman Catholicism! The Countess of Cressett, Livia, anticipated her no surprise at anything Lord Fleetwood might do: she knew him.