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"T'ank, ladies," he murmured. "If I can get a bite to eat and rest up " "'Rest up!" The shrill jeer of a newsboy broke in upon his pathetic speech. "Rest up again on the Island! That's the kind of a rest up you'll get, y' big tramp." "Can't you see the man's sick?" The stoutest one turned indignantly upon the newsboy. But the scoffer held his ground. "'Sick? Sure he's sick!
This she indignantly denied, and fortified her position by the statement that she only took short stitches! Further inquiry elicited the acknowledgment that she did so because she could no longer take long ones. This is a fair example of an occupation neurosis.
"I am afraid it wouldn't have done any good." "Do you mean that he would have taken the buggy in spite of me?" asked Hector, indignantly. "I think he would have tried. To tell the truth, Master Hector, I refused to get the buggy ready for him, till he brought out a paper from his father commanding me to do it. Then, of course, I had no choice." Hector was staggered by this.
"Just so," said Sam, "meanwhile we will hide, and return after they are gone, or, better still, if you, Letta, and Bungo will come and hide with us, I'll engage to lay a train of powder from the barrels inside to somewhere outside, and blow the reptiles and the whole mountain into the sea! There's powder enough to do it." "You tink me one divl?" demanded the old woman indignantly.
"In other words," exclaimed Patsy, indignantly, "she wanted to get rid of you, and did not care what became of you." "She was afraid I would cost her money," admitted the poor child, with shamed, downcast eyes. Patsy went to the window and stood looking out for a time. Myrtle began to dress herself.
"I shall forget nothing that is right to be remembered," she says, steadily; "and I like Miss Murray; we shall be friends always. She seems such a young girl and I am only eighteen. We shall love each other and take an interest in each other's houses. Now that Gertrude is away, no one cares very much for me." "It is a shame!" he interrupts, indignantly. "You and Polly must always love each other.
"I suppose so," murmured Harry, pensively; "wish it would get into yours. Now seriously, Kate, at your years you ought " "Harry," said Kate, indignantly, "I really don't need you at the station. I can meet your aunt quite well without you. Shall I set you down here, or drive you to the office?" "Oh, not to the office, I entreat! I entreat! Anything but that! Surely I may be allowed this day!
To what end?" shrieked the old man. "Shall I tell you. Because a man who is a friend must still be half a lover, and a woman cannot bear to give up even a quarter of one." "Not so!" exclaimed Philippus, indignantly interrupting him.
"We have forgotten to show Bob the baby!" "Merciful heavens!" bawled Robert. "A baby? This is the first time I've heard anything about a baby," looking with renewed interest at the young mother. "Do you mean to tell me, John Warburton, that you failed to mention the fact in any of your letters?" indignantly demanded Mrs. John. "Why er didn't I mention it?" asked the perturbed father.
The people protested indignantly against being taxed for the purpose, and, as a matter of fact, the representatives of the Company in India doubted whether they would be within their legal rights in compelling them to pay; and the tax was never actually levied.
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