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'This is no place for you, and we are getting on capitally. She pouted a little. 'I believe you and Mrs. Elsmere are just killing yourselves all in a corner, with no one to see, she said indignantly. 'If you won't let me see, I shall send Sir Harry. But who' and her brown fawn's eyes ran startled over the cottages before her 'who, Mr. Elsmere, does this dreadful place belong to? 'Mr.
Keoua's chief warrior urged him to put them to death, which he indignantly refused to do. "By smooth speeches and fair promises they persuaded him to go to Kawaihae, and have an interview with Kamehameha, in order to put an end to the war, which had lasted nine years.
I ain't got time for it now." "Why, Mother? Don't you want to read?" The knot of hair on the back of Miss Mattie's head seemed to rise, and her protruding wire hairpins bristled. "I should think you'd know," she said, indignantly, "when you've been takin' time from the law to read your pa's books to Barbara North, that no sick person has got the strength to read.
"An I was God," I said, indignantly, "I'd have made more flowers an' made un bigger." She smiled in the way of one dreaming. "Hut!" I went on, giving daring wing to my imagination. "I'd have made a hundred kinds an' soil enough t' grow un all every one o' the whole hundred! I'd have " She laid a soft hand on my lips.
Jerry had not sympathised sufficiently with Bohun in this affair.... "He only grinned," Bohun told me indignantly afterwards. "No sense of patriotism at all. After all, Englishmen ought to stick together." Finally, Bohun tested Jerry's literary knowledge. Jerry seemed to have none. He liked Fielding, and a man called Farnol and Jack London. He never read poetry.
"That you recall what you said the other day and restore me to a place in your friendship." There was no mistaking his true meaning. It was a price no self-respecting woman could pay. She rose indignantly, and haughtily she said: "You have never had a place in my friendship, Signor Keralio, and you never will. I see through your motive and I despise you now all the more.
"I would that I could discredit it, Sir James," Dame Vernon said sadly; "but the proofs were too strong for me. Much more of your conversation than was narrated in court was overheard, and it was at my request that the ragged boy, as you call him, kept silence." "And is it possible," the knight asked indignantly, "that you believed the word of a fellow like this to the detriment to your kinsman?
"No, but you looked much more than words can express." "I could not help that. Your revelation was sudden, Miss Walton." "How could it be otherwise?" she asked, indignantly. "The first evening of your arrival, when his name was mentioned, your face grew as black as night. When I again sought to speak to you of him, you adjured me never to mention his name.
It was only Mr. Snawdor who sought to uphold her, and Mr. Snawdor was but a broken reed. Meanwhile the all-important question of getting work was under discussion. Miss Stanley had made several tentative suggestions, but none of them met with Mrs. Snawdor's approval. "No, I ain't goin' to let you work out in private families!" she declared indignantly. "She's got her cheek to ast it!
She's beginning to powder her nose, and she's bought a new bonnet, thank God!" said Bob Sasnett with his usual laugh. When the directors were leaving the bank after indignantly electing Mrs. Walton to the board, Coleman looked at Sasnett suspiciously. "Where do you stand in this damn business, anyhow, Bob?" he demanded.
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