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"Humph! and I've no doubt the governor read you a pretty stiff lecture on practical joking." "He did," replied the accountant, laying aside his pipe and drawing the green blanket over him, while Harry piled several large logs on the fire. "Good-night," said the accountant.
If she expected this statement to have the effect of making the little man more cordial she was disappointed. In fact, if it had any effect at all, it was the opposite, judging by his manner and expression. His only comments on the disclosure of kinship were a "Humph!" and a brief "Want to know!" He stared at Thankful and she at him. Then he said: "Well?" Mrs. Barnes was astonished.
"Nice clean business too," said my father; "makes clean money, and keeps people clean. I suppose you know it's horribly hot out there?" "Not so hot as in our boiling-house, sir," I replied. "Humph!" said my father; and then, without another word, he walked back into the house. "I am glad," cried Tom, rubbing his hands together softly. "What a time of it we shall have, Mas'r Harry!"
Where is this cell?" "Ah, if I knew that! I have no matches, and, therefore, could not very well fix where I was." "Good; we will find out." Bartolomeo drew a match from his pocket, and soon a bright light illuminated the cell, without, however, revealing a consoling prospect. "Humph!" growled the major, "it was, after all, better down there." "But there, also, you did not find an exit."
He's got the sperit of the Old Scratch in him, and I can't git it out. I'm clean discouraged and wore out, and I know that he'll do somethin' pretty soon that 'll disgrace us all." "Humph!" exclaimed his friend. "Stuffy as all that, is he? You don't say! He ain't a bad boy, that is a REEL bad boy, either." "No, that's jest it. He ain't reel bad yit.
"Do you know of any one who might like to get you into trouble in such a way as this?" "No, sir," answered Joel promptly. Then a sudden recollection of Bartlett Cloud came to him, and he hesitated. Professor Durkee observed it. "Well?" he said sharply. "I know of no one, sir." "Humph!" grunted the professor, "you do, but you won't say."
"Stay, young man; I will let you through the gate." He was seated on a stone under a chestnut-tree, with an ugly cur at his feet, who snarled at me as I turned. "Thank you, my man," said I, joyfully. "I confess frankly that I was very much afraid of that leap." "Ho! Yet you said, what can be done once can be done twice." "I did not say it could be done, but ought to be done." "Humph!
"Why, yes," she admitted. "He was here today and he give me to understand that he wanted this property of mine and was goin' to have it. If I wouldn't agree to sell it to him now then he'd drive me into sellin' later on. That's about what he said." Captain Obed struck his fists together. "The swab!" he exclaimed. "Well, if that don't beat all my goin' to sea! Humph!
"I gather they've found the weapon," said the interested medico. "Yes," replied Tarling, "they have found the weapon." "Humph!" said the doctor, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "A pretty bad business." He looked at the other curiously. "What sort of a man was Thornton Lyne?" he asked. Tarling shrugged his shoulders.
She meant what she said and he reluctantly recognized the fact. "Humph! Well, all right, Martha," he growled. "But but will you do this much for me? Will you ask these folks whoever 'twas bought your two hundred and fifty if they don't want my four hundred? If they're really buyin', I shouldn't be surprised if they would want it.
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