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"It is absurd to talk of suspicion," he said again, irritably. "I hope you will drop that attitude, Hartley. If I had imagined for a moment that you were likely to adopt it, I should have kept my mouth shut." He went away, his narrow shoulders humped, and his whole figure testifying to his annoyance, and Hartley sat alone, watching the moonlight and thinking his own thoughts.
"We gave L4,000, but it included those ormulu vases which Joyce sold for us at Christie's. You remember we were wrong about those, and it took some of the gilt off." Ringsmith's heavy eyebrows met in a scowl. "Well?" he said irritably. "Whelan gave L7,500. He's a hard nut, you know." "That'll do now, MacTavish. I want you to go and call at this place, have a look at the pictures, and report." Mr.
There would undoubtedly be difficulties with his Majesty and the treasurer on the score of the expense, for their finances were at the very lowest ebb. "There is always the same annoyance where money is concerned," cried the Queen irritably, "in spite of the vast sums which my Netherlands pour into the treasury four times as much as Spain supplies, including the gold and silver of the New World.
She never gives way living or dead." This was more than human nature could stand. "In Heaven's name," I cried irritably, "who is she?" "Don't you know?" She appeared genuinely surprised. "Why, she is the other Mrs. Vanderbridge. She died fifteen years ago, just a year after they were married, and people say a scandal was hushed up about her, which he never knew.
"Is the room too hot for you?" Ovid asked. It was a harmless question, but any question annoyed her at that moment. "Nonsense!" she exclaimed irritably. "The atmosphere of the conservatory is rich in reviving smells," Mr. Mool remarked. "Do I detect, among the delightful perfumes which reach us, the fragrant root-stock of the American fern? If I am wrong, Mrs.
Well well" irritably. "What am I to do, then?" "Can't you manage your own nephew?" "No, I can't, confound it! Told me this morning he wanted to be an architect. An architect!" He spoke as though an architect were something that crawled. "Imagine a Brabazon of Lorne turning architect!" "Well, why not?" placidly. "It's better than being nothing but a gambler like poor Dick.
I'll take the night to think of it." Jack tried a last entreaty as she put her hand into her pocket, searching for the cupboard key, and tried it in vain. "No," she said; "I will keep it for you. Come to me when you are really ill, and want it." Her pocket proved to be entangled for the moment in the skirt of her dress. In irritably trying to disengage it, she threw out the key on the floor.
Now he burrowed into the spongy flesh; now turned to lap the dark pool which glittered in the moonlight at his side like claret in a silver cup. Now lifting his head, he snapped irritably at the rain-drops, and the moon caught his wicked, rolling eye and the red shreds of flesh dripping from his jaw.
"Certainly no tenant will ever again be got through me," he said, irritably; and then Taylor came to him, all in a hurry, and explaining he was wanted, carried him away. "They are going to compromise," I thought, and followed slowly in the direction taken by my principal.
Doris flushed, and Pete glanced around, realizing that they were not alone. "Well, I reckon we got to go back to the corral!" Pete sighed heavily. Back in bed he watched Doris as she made a notation on the chart of his "case." He frowned irritably when she took his temperature. "The doctor will want to know how you stood your first outing," she said, smiling.
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