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Talouel hurried forward to meet the telegraph boy. "Say, you don't hurry yourself, do you?" he cried. "Do you want me to kill myself?" asked the boy, insolently. He hurried with the message to M. Vulfran's office. "Shall I open it, sir?" he asked eagerly. "Yes, do," said M. Vulfran. "Oh, it is in English," replied Talouel, as he looked at the missive.
"Then I maun remand ye for another examination," replied Sir Alexander McKetchum coolly. "But I object to that, also. I object to be kept in confinement while there is nothing proved against me, and I demand my liberty," said the viscount insolently. "Why dinna ye demaund the moon and stars, laddie? I could gi'e them to ye just as sune," replied Sir Alexander.
From the amatory poems written in his own person one might judge him to be quite heartless, the mere hard and polished mirror of a corrupt society; and in the Art of Love he is the keen observer of men and women whose wit and lucid common sense are the more insolently triumphant because untouched by any sentiment or sympathy.
Rimrock dropped off the train that had brought him from the County seat, and went straight up the street to the hotel. McBain was in his office, stalking nervously up and down as he dictated to Mary Fortune, when the door opened suddenly and Rimrock Jones stepped in and stood gazing at him insolently. "Good morning," he said with affected nicety of speech. "I hope that I don't intrude.
"With yore friend the rustler?" asked Healy insolently over his shoulder. "I haven't got any friend that's a rustler." "I'm speaking of Mr. Larrabie Keller." There was a slurring inflection on the prefix. "He'll be there, I shouldn't wonder." "I'd wonder a heap," retorted Healy. "You'll see he won't show his face there." "That's where you're wrong, Brill.
A savage flirt of his locks completed his toilette, and in all the splendor of his scarlet stockings and embroidered waistcoat, he issued forth. O'Brallaghan, as he passed through the shop, requested to be informed where Mr. Jinks was going. Jinks stopped, and scowled at Mr. O'Brallaghan, thereby intimating that his, Jinks', private rights were insolently invaded by a coarse interrogatory.
At least the cardinal could no longer afford to dispense with the service of his beat corps of veterans who had demanded their wages so insolently, and who had laughed at his offer of excommunication by way of payment so heartily.
"Well," he cried, insolently, at Scully, "I s'pose you'll tell me now how much I owe you?" The old man remained stolid. "You don't owe me nothin'." "Huh!" said the Swede, "huh! Don't owe 'im nothin'." The cowboy addressed the Swede. "Stranger, I don't see how you come to be so gay around here." Old Scully was instantly alert. "Stop!" he shouted, holding his hand forth, fingers upward.
"She's very well, thank you," replied Toni, wondering a little at this unusual condescension. "But her name isn't Mibbs, it's Gibbs." "Really?" Lady Martin drawled the word out insolently, as though to indicate that the name of the young woman in question did not interest her. "She is not here to-day, I suppose?" "No," said Toni, absent-mindedly, "she was not able to get off to-day." "Get off?"
This temperate courage dictated his reply to the demands of Attila, who insolently pressed the payment of the annual tribute.
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