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They always know what the weather is going to do; and whether this is an advantage or not is a difficult matter to settle conclusively. New England boys affirm that they wouldn't live in a country where it couldn't rain any day it felt like it, and California lads retort that they are glad their dispositions are not ruined by the freaks of New England weather.
Frank glanced round without turning his head, but he could see nothing of Red Ben. "Shoot, Ben shoot him down!" panted Del Norte. "Ben got him foul," was the assurance. "Him shoot you, Ben shoot him." "Shoot first, you fool!" snarled the Mexican. "No shoot 'less have to," was the retort. "Ben he no want hang for murder." Frank realized that he was in a trap.
He was, evidently, not prepared for this, he hesitated for one instant, deliberating with himself, and as Guy saw his mortification and disappointment, he could not help feeling that in one of their successes depended the other's misfortune he began to hope again; he could see the struggle in the face of the rejected suitor, he might have pitied him in the end but for the words of sneering retort that burst from the white lips at this same instant,
"The master of the house is absent," was the smart retort roared at him; and Tinman staggered away, enjoying it as he did his wine. His house rocked. He was backed by his sister in the assurance that he had been duped.
"It's more than you have deserved, in my opinion," Urquhart retorted. "I'll ask you not to forget that she has loved me, and doesn't blame me. And I'll ask you not to forget that it is I who am telling you all this, and not she." It was his last bite. The retort was easy, and would have crushed him; but James did not make it. Let him have his pitiful triumph.
Susan Lanham got hold of this retort, and took pains that it should be known all over the village. When Greenbank once gets waked up on any question, it never goes to sleep until that particular question is settled. But it doesn't wake up more than once or twice in twenty years. Most of the time it is only talking in its sleep.
"Lor, you needn't be so cross, Missis Queen," rejoined Amanda, making a mock curtsey. This retort produced a sharp altercation, in which several others readily joined, and a dozen young voices were to be heard all speaking at once.
You always let things sort of percolate, before you let off steam, but it's mostly all steam, or hot air, at Leslie Manor." "Reckon you can supply your share of the latter, can't you?" was the half serious, half-bantering retort. "Somehow, I haven't felt exactly hot-airy since I've been there. It makes me feel more steamy; as though I'd blow up sometimes.
It was much more probable, Sir George would retort, that slavery had bewildered the poor man's understanding, and that he fancied he was acquainted with the first English names he heard.
You do not like me because I am too much of a man; that is why, sir." "You are too much of a man for ship discipline, if that is what you mean, and if you know what I mean," was Wolf Larsen's retort. "I know English, and I know what you mean, sir," Johnson answered, his flush deepening at the slur on his knowledge of the English language.
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