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"For goodness' sake, sir, don't call me by that objectionably childish name," cried the ensign. "How should you like to be called Bobby?" "Not much, old boy," said the middy; "but I don't much care. Never mind, shake hands. No, don't. Let's do it mentally. Here's old Ali coming, looking as black as a civilian's hat. Hallo, Ali, old chap, ain't you precious proud of your dear fellow-countrymen?"
One of them was at great pains to try and teach her, but with hideous shapes and suggestions trying to crowd her mind, the thought of Hal's freshness still acted as a sort of protection and kept her untainted. A little later, after she had commenced to earn a salary, she found that directly the family purse was empty, and creditors objectionably insistent, she herself had to come to the rescue.
"Mr. Ogilvie knew my father." "That has nothing to do with the case," said Uncle Henry. "I think it has." "Do not be insolent, Mark. I've noticed lately a most unpleasant note in your voice, an objectionably defiant note which I simply will not tolerate." "But do you really mean that I'm not to go and see Mr. Ogilvie?" "It would have been more courteous if Mr.
Vinck knew Willems well, and believed him to be very able, very smart objectionably so. As he took the last quick draws at the stump of his cheroot, Mr. Vinck reflected that the confidence accorded by Hudig to Willems was open, under the circumstances, to loyal criticism from Hudig's cashier. "He is becoming dangerous; he knows too much. He will have to be got rid of," said Mr. Vinck aloud.
It was with considerable difficulty that he could be induced to take it away. Dogs, dogs, dogs from mastiff to mongrel, from St. Bernard to toy poodle the yard really swarmed with them just before the first of May, when dog taxes must be paid! A crow that could talk, but rather objectionably, was offered me.
Trouble may always be expected from the night attacks of certain tribes like the Alizais and Waziris. The English infantry formation was an objectionably close one, and Lieut. Martin says that the bayonets and rifle-barrels of the front rank were sometimes struck and jammed by bullets from the rear rank.
And, can anything be more objectionably at variance with that wise teaching than the spectacle of amorous uxorious efflorescence in a man of well over fifty?" Poppy permitted herself a lively grimace. "All the same you have sacrificed yourself, as usual," she said. "Not so very greatly, perhaps," Iglesias replied, with a soberly humorous expression.
She had thrown Ben Dudley over for the colonel; the colonel did not want her, and now she would have neither. Ben had been very angry, unreasonably angry, she had thought at the time, and objectionably rude in his manner. He had sworn never to speak to her again. If he should keep his word, she might be very unhappy.
Now he recalled the whole creation to his remembrance, and its weaknesses forced themselves upon him so strongly and objectionably that the extravagant praise of the stern critic awakened fresh doubts in his mind.
He had got on so well with the mamma, who was this old maid, who appeared so objectionably on the alert? "Well, I am sure," said Mrs. Leigh, "some girls here are that pert and forward, I can't bear it myself; and yet the gentlemen all encourage it, and think it real smart. Lilla Tremaine, you know, Aunt Jane." "Ah!" said Bertie, shaking his head, "a very unsteady young person."
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