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"Oh, she's my chum," was the genial reply. "Top floor, front. You'll find her there." With thanks the visitor passed on, but had not climbed half a dozen steps when the clear-sounding voice caused her to stop. "Beg your pardon and all that kind of thing, but would you mind telling her that Tomkins is huffy? I forgot to mention it before I came out. Thanks, awfully."
Of course he felt a little "huffy" now; but next winter, when she had a home of her own, she would give attractive parties, and invite Jim among the very first. By that time he would be over his boyish folly. And now, what must she wear to the theatre to-night? She must look her prettiest. Her wretched headache was gone.
The men was very huffy, and some of them wanted to hang Jim for an example to all the other niggers around there, so they wouldn't be trying to run away like Jim done, and making such a raft of trouble, and keeping a whole family scared most to death for days and nights.
He wuz real huffy and sez, "Well, I say it, and stick to it, that it is better to worship the sun than it is to worship snakes," and come to think it over, I didn't know but it wuz. The Parsees live together in big families of relations, sometimes fifty. They do not bury their dead, but put 'em up in high towers, called Towers of Silence.
She continued to contemplate him. Her eyes were strange, baffling, smouldering, yellow-brown, shifting, yet not shifty: eyes with a history. Her laugh proclaimed both effrontery and uneasiness. "Don't get huffy," she said. "The kid's sick that's on the level, is it? You didn't come 'round to see me?" The insinuation was in her voice as well as in her words.
"I think your firm can just pay the price and exist!" she said. "It's a terrible sum, and it shows how great a criminal you are!" "Not a 'thirty-cent' criminal, anyhow," said Carnac. "It is a moral victory, and tell Fabian so. He's a bit huffy because I got into the trouble, I suppose." "No, he loathed it all. He's sorry it occurred."
I didn't tell you in New York, of course, that Melville and I had a little quarrel about this matter, and he went home decidedly huffy. I had no idea he would take this method of revenge; but I see it quite clearly now. He knew I had secured the option of the mine.
I often don't read them at all, and I've one lying about to this day, unopened. I'll send it to you to-morrow. But that one, that last letter of yours was the tiptop of perfection! How I did laugh! Oh, how I laughed!" "Monster, monster!" wailed Stepan Trofimovitch. "Foo, damn it all, there's no talking to you. I say, you're getting huffy again as you were last Thursday."
Linda though a trifle fretful on occasion, especially with servants, a little petulant and huffy with a sense of her own dignity and importance as a rich woman, was completely happy in her marriage. Dresden china and all the stale similes applied to a type of little woman of whom the modern world has grown intolerant.
"You see me here, don't you." He was quite huffy, but noticing my wondering stare he smoothed his ruffled plumes. And in a musing tone. "Yes. Good men go out as if there was no use for them in the world. It seems as if there were things that, as the Turks say, are written. Or else fate has a try and sometimes misses its mark.
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