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"Don't tell me," interrupted Winthrop, in burlesque excitement, "that you were that very pretty little girl, with short dresses and long legs, who used to sit on the top rail and kick and cheer." Vera shook her head sternly. "I was," she said, "but you never saw me." "Oh, yes, we did," protested Winthrop. "We used to call you our mascot." "No, that was some other little girl," said Vera firmly.
"And now, boys, I want to make you some return for your assistance to-night." Both Frank and Philip earnestly protested that they would receive nothing in the conversation that ensued. Philip made known his intention to leave Norton the next morning. "What are your plans? Where do you mean to go?" asked the farmer. "I don't know, sir. I shall make up my mind as I go along.
Such a change, protested Davison, was utterly unworthy a person of the Earl's quality, and utterly unsuited to the necessity of the time and state. But Davison went farther in defence of Leicester.
A friend of mine had written a very brilliant article on a play which had puzzled New York. Some time later I was discussing the article with another friend of a decidedly classicalist bent. "What is it?" he protested, "it isn't criticism for it's half rhapsody; it isn't rhapsody because it is analytical.... What is it? That's what I want to know."
The German would have protested, but he was pushed back by the crowd and landed at a distance. "That was well done!" "I did not know that he could be so impulsive." "He was quite right." "The poor people of the Duchess will become landholders!" And the crowd scattered, making many comments on the way. Albert was soon surrounded, as everybody wanted to shake hands with him.
"I see no other way out of this den, unless we jump down into the street; but I will follow you, sir, if I fall a hundred feet in doing it," protested the master's mate. "You shall not fall six inches, and you will have no opportunity to do so.
"He scolded you!" said Isabel, swift regret in her voice. "I am so sorry, dear child. I ought to have gone to look after you. I was selfish." "Oh no indeed!" Dinah protested. "It was entirely my own fault. He would have been cross in any case. They are like that." Isabel uttered a sigh. "I shall have to try to meet them. Naturally they will not let you come to total strangers.
"Surely," I protested, "you don't think it was a deliberate thing that we planned or rehearsed it." He stared at me incredulously. "Are you going to pretend," he demanded, "that it wasn't a put-up job?"
Whatsoever was more, I did never consent unto or know of it, and as truly was it protested unto me, that all the remaynder before mencioned of the oyle, wyne, &c., which the President receyved of me when I was deposed they themselves poored into their owne bellyes. "To the President's and Counsell's objections I saie that I doe knowe curtesey and civility became a governor.
But Annixter refused to accept this explanation. He was distressed beyond expression. "Now you're going to be sick," he cried anxiously. "No, no," she protested, "not a bit." "But you said you didn't feel very well. Where is it you feel sick?" "I don't know. I'm not sick. Oh, dear me, why will you bother?" "Headache?" "Not the least." "You feel tired, then. That's it.
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