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"For God's sake," I blurted irritably, "be like your countrymen in there: be sneering, resentful, supercilious! Don't be so cursed amiable don't make it so hard for me to do this!" "I supercilious! And to thee, lad!" he replied, with a reproachful smile. "Show your inward self, then. I know how selfish you are, how unscrupulous!
In order to miss nothing, we even conscientiously passed through the Woman's Building, where we were very much bored by the serried ranks of preserve jars. "'Sufferin' Hezekiah! cried gran'ther irritably 'Who cares how gooseberry jel looks. If they'd give a felly a taste, now
This good-tempered, mocking tone of voice annoyed him, yet he had no answer ready. He was not fond of arguing with Sanine, for his usual vocabulary proved useless in such an encounter. Every time it seemed as if he were trying to break down a wall while standing on smooth ice. Von Deitz, however, stumbling along and rattling his spurs, exclaimed irritably: "May I ask why?"
"Your reckoning's a trifle out!" snapped Rogers, irritably, from the stern; "but she's certainly showing us her heels. Can't we put somebody ashore and have her cut off lower down?" "While we're doing that," cried Stringer, excitedly, "she would land somewhere and we should lose the gang!" "That's right," reluctantly agreed Rogers. "Can you see any of her people?"
Then she turned the <i>Gem</i> around and started for home, conscious that her chums were gazing at her in speechless amazement. "Betty!" cried Grace, horrified. "You are never going to let Percy Falconer come to see you, are you?" But Betty turned on her irritably. She was tired and nervous and angry at herself for having anything to do with that conceited dude, Percy Falconer.
'I shall miss the life and stir of all this, he observed, 'when I get back to town again. Holroyd did not appear to have heard him, and, as Caffyn had intended a covert sting, the absence of all response did not improve his temper. 'I can't think why the devil they don't send me the paper, he went on irritably. 'I ordered it to be sent down here regularly, but it never turns up by any chance.
To-day, you see, he's so very busy." Blake's hard eyes softened before her appealing glance, only to stare back sullenly at her father. "I'm not asking any thanks from him, Miss Jenny," he replied. The girl caught the arm of her father, who stood glowering irritably at Blake. "Papa, I I don't understand why you and Tom Couldn't you won't you please be a little more cordial? Wait! I have it!"
Old Mere Langlois looked at her companion in merchanting irritably, then she remembered that Virginie Poucette was a stranger, in a way, and was therefore deserving of pity, and she said with compassionate patronage: "Newcomer you I'd forgotten. Look you then, the Spanische was the wife of my third cousin, M'sieu' Jean Jacques, and "
But they had thrust these considerations aside in the loyalty of their friendship and Jane Repton was a little hurt that Stella waved away their invitation without ceremony. "I can't. I can't," she said irritably. "Don't try to stop me." Her nerves were quite on edge and she spoke with a greater violence than she knew. Jane Repton tried to persuade her.
It has it has unpleasant associations. Let it rest in oblivion." He shrugged his shoulders in despair. "You're the most aggravating woman I know," he remarked irritably. In an instant Nan was her own engaging self once more. It was instinctive with her to try and charm away an atmosphere of disapproval. "Don't say that, Sandy," she replied, making a beseeching little moue.
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