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"All supposition," scoffed Miller. "Not quite all." The detective, nettled by his jeering smile, spoke hastily. "On further inquiry I learned from one of the servants today that Miss Whitney had on the same dress Wednesday morning, when her screams aroused the household, which she wore at dinner the night before." "Ah, indeed?" Miller's smile had ceased to be skeptical, it was strained.
"That isn't anything practical," scoffed Tom Reade, "while in hot weather a good supply of ice is eminently practical." "You'll think there's a practical side to the man of mystery and his cronies when to-night comes, and there's so much noise about the camp that we miss another night's rest," hinted Darry sagely. "Humph!" was Tom's greeting to that assertion. "I don't know but you're right."
Young men with wealthy parents, school and college boys, clerks and men of leisure, some who had never done a lick of manual labor in their lives, and would not have used a spade or shovel for any consideration, would have scoffed at the idea of doing the laborious work of men, were now toiling away with the farmer boys, the overseers' sons, the mechanics all with a will and filled with enthusiasm that nothing short of the most disinterested patriotism could have endured.
In his cloudy fancy he had pictured a Something like this. He had found it in this Mitchell, even when he idly scoffed at his pain: a Man all-knowing, all-seeing, crowned by Nature, reigning, the keen glance of his eye falling like a sceptre on other men. And yet his instinct taught him that he too He!
They heaped upon Omar every indignity, scoffed and spat at him, while my own pale face arousing the ire of the fanatical Mohammedan populace, they denounced me as an infidel accursed of Allah, and urged my captors to kill me and give my flesh to the dogs. Truly we were in pitiable plight. I looked at Omar, but heedless of all their threats and jeers, he walked with princely gait.
It seems strange that because they have got more knowledge of some matters, they should have grown more ignorant of others, and declare that there never were such things as Fairies, just because they have neither the eyes nor the minds to see them! Of course, no one could expect the sensitive little creatures to appear when they are sneered at and scoffed at.
Why stir up his passions to a greater degree, then?" "Of course, Ruthie would want to turn 'the other cheek," scoffed Jennie. "I am not going around with a chip on my shoulder, looking for somebody to knock it off," laughed the girl of the Red Mill. "I just want Joe to leave us alone that's all." Wonota shook her head and seemed unconvinced of the wisdom of this. She was not a pacifist.
"What do you mean 'love'?" This was the rhetorical question of the year. "I'm going to tell you something," she said, switching the subject abruptly. "I suppose it's none of my business, but I think it's time for you two to settle down." "Why, we are settled down." "Yes, you are!" she scoffed archly. "Everywhere I go I hear stories of your escapades.
"Y-y-yes, like f-f-fun you have," scoffed Toby, who knew Steve "like a book," and had no faith in his professed change of heart. After a while things looked comfortable again.
He scoffed at that, but while she ate her honey he made an exhaustive inspection of it. When the sun dropped out of sight a shivering wind sprang up and the blue sky drew a grey cloak over itself. Christopher wrapped his companion in a fur coat and tucked her in anxiously.
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