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"Are your labors ended so soon?" Mr. Avery bowed pluperfectly, and Cally smiled suddenly. He was a pink, slightly bald young man, and had once been described by Mr. "What are you laughing at?" inquired he, somewhat lugubriously. "Only at something funny Mrs. McVey just said. You know how witty she is.... Have you handed them all out?" "I appointed a deputy," confessed Mr.
It was pouring with rain when they left the restaurant; the bright sunshine of morning had utterly gone, the street was dripping, the pavements saturated. "We shall have to go home, I suppose," said Jimmy lugubriously. "Home?" Christine looked up at him. "Do you mean to the hotel?" she asked. "I suppose so, unless you would care to come to my rooms," said Jimmy, flushing a little.
"They may find all sorts of treasure for you," continued his visitor. "It's a very old house, Smith, and there may be bags of guineas hidden away under the flooring. You may be able to retire." "You're a gentleman as is fond of his joke, Mr. Swann," returned the boarding-master, lugubriously. "I wish I'd got that 'appy way of looking at things you 'ave."
"Wanta go to a party?" demanded Perry sternly. "I gotta work," answered the taxi driver lugubriously. "I gotta keep my job." "It's a very good party." "'S a very good job." "Come on!" urged Perry. "Be a good fella. See it's pretty!" He held the camel up and the taxi driver looked at it cynically. "Huh!" Perry searched feverishly among the folds of the cloth.
Ridge was a rather wet blanket, to be sure, but Grandma was a timid old lady who did not like travelling in the dark. "I hope it will come out right I hope so," she repeated lugubriously. For a few fleeting moments Milly recalled the spindly horse and the scrubby boy of the delivery wagon, but for only a few moments. Then her natural buoyancy overcame any doubts.
"What's gone o' ye, Jeff?" said his aunt lugubriously; "ye ain't nat'ral like." Jeff laughed. "See here, aunty; I'm goin' to take your advice. You know Rabbit?" "The mare?" "Yes; I'm going to sell her. The blacksmith offered me a hundred dollars for her last week."
Gad, I knew she would surrender in form, and I was right. Something is wrong with that gold button yes, it looks better plain the old gentleman something's in the wind in the meantime I'll raise this window or why should he talk so lugubriously as he does? Upon my soul it was the most painful interview I ever had.
He lighted the lantern, and Bland lay blinking at it lugubriously. "And me I dreamed I was in to Lemare's just after a big exhibition flight, and a bunch of movie queens was givin' me the glad eye." "Yes, I've done some dreaming myself," Johnny interposed dryly. "I'm awake now. Listen here, Bland. I've been playing square with you, all along. I want you to get that.
"I don't know anything about it," he said at last. "But I should think that would mean trouble." "Plenty!" agreed Harry lugubriously. "That shaft's two 'unnerd feet deep and there 's a drift running off it for a couple o' 'unnerd feet more before it 'its the vein. Four 'unnerd feet of water. 'Ow much money 'ave you got?" "About twenty-five hundred dollars."
I'd call it a smashing victory just as I did last night. And our being caught only shows " "Rave on," said Mr. Mix lugubriously, and stood with his hands in his pockets, jingling his keys. "Certainly! It shows they meant business. It shows we did. We'll take our own medicine. And the amendment " She broke off sharply; her eyes had strayed back to the smaller type.
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