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What does your mother think about it?" "I haven't told her yet. Time enough for that when I know that I really mean it and you know that I am competent to fill the position. George, if you keep on cross-examining me I am likely to quit before I begin. I don't know why I am doing this, but just now I think I am going to do it if I can. However, I am not sure. So you had better be careful." "Humph!
Nearly all girls are clever imitators, and Clara readily adopted Capitola's light, springy, swaying walk, and met old Dorcas Knight in the hall, without exciting the slightest suspicion of her identity. "Humph!" said the woman; "so you are going! I advise you not to come back again!" Clara threw up her head with a swagger, and went on.
Then you will be worth nothing, and go before the insolvent commissioners and swear until you are black and blue, without perjuring yourself." "Humph! is that the way it is done?" said Mr. Hardy. "The very way." "But suppose the friend should decline handing it back?" The lawyer shrugged his shoulders as he replied, "You must take care whom you trust in an affair of this kind.
Cruncher dwelt upon this as quite a liberal offer; "or I'll out and announce him." "Humph! I see one thing," said Carton. "I hold another card, Mr. Barsad.
Craggs started, as if his familiar had been a spectre. 'Is he gone? he asked. 'Hush! He has been with me, said Snitchey, 'for three hours and more. He went over everything. He looked into all our arrangements for him, and was very particular indeed. He Humph! The dance was finished. Marion passed close before him, as he spoke.
He looked at it. "Humph!" he grunted, after a moment's scrutiny. "You've made up your mind; I can see that. Have you told Caroline? Does she know?" "Yes. You'll have to excuse me, Captain Warren; my train is coming." "What did she say?" Pearson smiled, but there was little mirth in the smile. "I think she agrees with me that it is best," he observed. "Humph! She does, hey? I want to know!
"Ain't nobody BUT the dead to wake in this place." "Yes, there is; there's that young man of yours, that Brown one. He ain't dead, is he?" "Humph! he's asleep, and that's next door to dead with him." "Well, I'm glad of it. My nerves are pretty steady as a general thing, but I declare I'm all of a twitter to-night and no wonder. It's darker than a pocket in here. Can't we have a light?"
As the crowd filed out from the benches at the close of the concert, Diana found herself walking behind Meg, who was speaking to a friend. "That 'Moonlight Sonata' was beautiful!" Ada Davis was saying. "And Mrs. Fleming looked so charming to-night! How nice to have such a pretty, clever mother!" "I'm awfully proud of her!" agreed Meg, with unction. "Humph!
To-night I'll send a letter to Chris Holtzmann, 897 Sherman Street, Chicago, and tell him a few things he wants to know, and " "You dare!" almost shrieked Mr. Woodward. "Write a single word to him and I'll I'll " "So! ho! You're afraid of him, are you?" "No, I'm not, but what's the use of letting him know anything?" "Humph! Do you suppose I'd tell him without pay? Not much!
"The children of the prairie think that wisdom lies in silence," answered Whitewing gravely. "They leave it to their women and white brothers to chatter out all their minds." "Humph! The children o' the prairie ain't complimentary to their white brothers," returned the trapper. "Mayhap yer right. Some of us do talk a leetle too much. It's a way we've got o' lettin' off the steam.
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