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Septimus picked it up and handed it to her. It bore an Italian stamp and the Naples postmark. "Yes. That's from him," she said resentfully. "I've not had a letter for a week, and now he writes to say he has gone to Naples on account of his health. You had better let me go, my good Septimus; if I stay here much longer I'll be talking slush and batter. I've got things on my nerves."
Helen May stood on the knobby, brown rock pinnacle that formed the head of Sunlight Basin and stared resentfully out over the baked desert and the forbidding hills and the occasional grassy hollows that stretched away and away to the skyline.
"My daughter cannot go to-night," she repeated resentfully. "I do forbid it." Wogan had his one argument. This one argument was his last resource. He had chosen it carefully with an eye to the woman whom it was to persuade. It was not couched as an inducement; it did not claim the discharge of an obligation; it was not a reply to any definite objection.
For a few moments the silence was broken only by the ticking of the old-fashioned clock. "Mr. Ditmar!" said Hannah, at length. "You're going to marry Mr. Ditmar!" Edward was still inarticulate. His face twitched, his eyes watered as he stared at her. "Not right away," said Janet. "Well, I must say you take it rather cool," declared Hannah, almost resentfully.
"The success with which your charming little boy has entertained me has made the time seem very short. I could willingly have waited longer." That last remark was a mere contretemps. I did not mean to be as severe as he evidently thought me, for he bowed haughtily and resentfully. I came at once to business, drew from my pocket the engraving I had brought, "Could he copy that for me?"
"It's nothink more nor a wild-goose chase," she said, resentfully. "A-gettin' us all out'n our beds at this time o' night! It's a sufferin' and dyin' shame, that's wot it is, and if sperrits was like other folks, 't wouldn't 'ave happened." "Sarah," said Mrs. Dodd, firmly, "keep your mouth shut. Israel, will you dig?" "We'll all dig," said Mrs.
"Father, this is Mr. Culpeper," remarked Patty calmly, as she sank on a sofa and stretched out her frivolous shoes. In the midst of his embarrassment Stephen wondered resentfully how she had discovered his name.
You know your own business, of course," said the boy, a little resentfully. "Only as Fane, Harmon & Co. have thought it worth while " "I don't care what Fane, Harmon think," growled Austin, touching a button over his desk. His stenographer entered; he nodded a curt dismissal to Gerald, adding, as the boy reached the door: "Your sister expects you to be on hand to-night and so do we."
They are beings of strain and conflict and competition. They are living substance still mingled painfully with the dust. The forms in which this being clothes itself bear thorns and fangs and claws, are soaked with poison and bright with threats or allurements, prey slyly or openly on one another, hold their own for a little while, breed savagely and resentfully, and pass. . . .
And how Griffith, the biggest of the book- makers, with the rest of them at his back, came up to him and touched his hat resentfully, and said, "You'll have to give us time, sir; I'm very hard hit"; and how the crowd stood about him and looked at him curiously, and the Certain Royal Personage turned and said, "Who not that boy, surely?"
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