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Arvilly got a number of new subscribers and made friends amongst the passengers, but Elder Wessel avoided her. And he didn't seem to like Sister Evangeline. I told him what I had seen and hearn, for it seemed to me like a olive branch bore into our dark, rainy world by a dove of Paradise. But he scoffed at it; he said that it wuz all imagination.
"Have you heard the news, aunt?" Sarah asked across the table. "About that silly little Mrs. Liddiard Green, do you mean, and Jack Fulton? I hear they were seen in Paris together last week." "Pooh! Who cares about Mrs. Liddiard Green!" Sarah scoffed. "I mean the news about Jimmy. The dear boy's gone into the City." "God bless my soul!" Lady Amesbury exclaimed. "How much has he got to lose?"
"Oh, you just want me to believe that!" scoffed Julia, dimpling. What they said, however, mattered as little as what might be said by the two occupants of a boat that was drifting swiftly toward rapids. "Why do you think an unkind thing like that?" Carter asked reproachfully. "Was that unkind?" Julia countered innocently. At which Mr.
Casey looked down at her oddly. "It's mebby the end of one," he said. "But they's another one, now, 't I can see plainer than this one. I dunno's I'll ever git to where that one points." "A man's never satisfied," scoffed the Little Woman, turning the precious little yellow fragments over thoughtfully in her palm. "I should think this ought to be enough for you, man alive." "Mebby it had.
They scoffed at her consecrated wares; they bandied with her ribald jests, of which her public position had furnished her with a supply; they assured her that the hour had come when her idolatrous traffic was to be forever terminated, when she and her patroness, Mary, were to be given over to destruction together. The old woman, enraged, answered threat with threat, and gibe with gibe.
Business, whether civil or military, seemed always to be his proper sphere; and while in festivals and revels, although he well understood how to trick them up and present them, his own part was that of a mere spectator; or if he exercised his wit, it was in a rough, caustic, and severe manner, rather as if he scoffed at the exhibition and the guests than shared the common pleasure.
She might have scoffed at me, and, while wounding, she would not soon have alienated me: through myself, she could not in ten years have done what, in a moment, she has done through my mother." He held his peace awhile. Never before had I seen so much fire, and so little sunshine in Dr. John's blue eye as just now.
"Pshaw," scoffed Dan, "she can't hear us. There ought to be a law against anyone being as deaf as that." "She's not so old-looking as I expected," said Felix. "If her hair wasn't so white she wouldn't look much older than your mother." "You don't have to be very old to be a great-aunt," said Cecily. "Kitty Marr has a great-aunt who is just the same age as her mother.
Before her look and gesture the cripple quailed, and twisted and rolled and pasted all day long, to his country's shame, fuming with impotent rage. "I wish the devil had you," he growled. She regarded him maliciously, with head tilted on one side, as a bird eyes a caterpillar it has speared. "Hein!" she scoffed. "Du den, vat?" He scowled. She was right; without her he was helpless.
"You are ill-treating him!" Phipps cried passionately. "I shall go to Scotland Yard myself! I shall tell them what you have said. I shall denounce you!" "My dear fellow," Wingate scoffed, "you have done that already. You have induced those very excellent upholders of English law and liberty to set a plain-clothes man to following me about.
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