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You did move the slip. If that is not cheating " "If I was a cheat," said Hill, with the note of hysterics in his voice, "should I come here and tell you?" "Your repentance, of course, does you credit," said Professor Bindon, "but it does not alter the original facts." "No, sir," said Hill, giving in in utter self-abasement. "Even now you cause an enormous amount of trouble.
"I'm scared blue, of course," Dorothy admitted frankly, "but hysterics won't do any good, and we simply must get back." "Certainly, we must and we will," stated DuQuesne calmly. "If you like, you might find something for us to eat in the galley there, while I see what I can do with this board that I wrecked with my head.
Katherine Verdon was an unemotional woman. She did not feel in the least inclined to go into hysterics or make bitter speeches. Mrs. Tell, who watched her narrowly, could not detect the slightest change in her demeanour. She remarked that Miss Kilner was very pretty really quite beautiful and no one could be surprised at the turn that things had taken.
She might well have been the victim of hysterics, but she was only distrait, pensive and gently smiling, with the smile of a good heart. Smiling with her had ever taken the place of conversation. It was an apology for not speaking when she could not speak what she felt.
He ridiculed the newspaper parade of national sympathy with the Prince of Wales's illness: "We are represented as all members of the royal family, and all in family hysterics." Dizzy's orientalization of Queen Victoria into an Empress angered him, as it angered many more.
We have observed that women in the inferior ranks of society continue much briefer time in hysterics, swoons, and such-like, than the highborn and well educated, who know how to make the most of all matters of the kind.
'No, thank you! said James, at first with the instinct of resistance; but yielding and confessing, 'Charlotte went into hysterics, and I had nothing to eat before I came away.
"You haven't any stocks, Mrs. Kilgour." "No," she whispered, his eyes dominating her. "What did you do with that money I loaned you?" "I paid a debt." "What debt? Answer! This thing must be cleared up now!" She began to weep. "No more hysterics, Mrs. Kilgour. We are now down to cases. Something bad will happen if you don't confide in me."
Ah, she will understand, and bless your soft hearts and heads while you drink it she's a cute one is my missus." "And aren't you afraid to leave her with us?" "Not I, my daisy, unless it were that a sight of your pretty face might give her hysterics. Now lend a hand, your accursed chatter has already cost me half an hour of the best fishing time."
Do you ever have hysterics?" "Never," said Anne firmly. He took his coat and began to wriggle into it, surveying her meantime with a smile half-speculative, half-rueful. "Well, that's a weight off my mind, anyway," he remarked at length. "For I have a staggering piece of news for you which I hardly dare to impart. Oh, it's no good looking at your watch.
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