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Even in the excitement that followed the ball, Pen's scolding, as he called it, had never been entirely out of his thoughts. In spite of their sting, Jim realized that Pen's words had cleared his vision, had given him a sense of content that was comparable only to the feeling he had had on the night so many years ago that he had discovered his profession.
"The Doctor has just been scolding me because I am not fond enough of work," Captain Doolan laughed. "You are differently placed, Doolan," the Doctor said. "You have got plenty of enthusiasm in your nature most Irishmen have but you have had nothing to stir it. Life in a native regiment in India is an easy one.
She felt almost sure that he did mean something disagreeable, and that he was scolding her. "I don't quite know what you mean by loud, George? We were talking, and of course wanted to make each other hear. I believe with some people loud means vulgar. I hope you didn't mean that." He certainly would not tell his wife that she was vulgar.
Lavendar, He leaned over to rescue his tumbler, and his good-natured scolding made an instant's break in the intensity. "Have some?" said Mr. Wright, turning to his son. "I do not drink." The banker uncoiled his leg, and put his hat on the floor. His father pounded the decanter down on the table. "Simmons!" he called out; "light the rest of these lamps, you you freckled nigger!
Be quiet, mother; it is all over now." Her mother at last yielded to these gentle remonstrances, turned away from the brink, and surveyed the roof. She saw Okoya standing before weeping Shyuote, and scolding him. "What are you doing to this child?" asked Mitsha's mother, still under the pressure of her former excitement. She was ready for another fray.
For Annie would have had it upside down in about two minutes, and scrubbed, and brushed, and dusted, until it looked quite another place; and yet all this done without scolding and crossness; which are the curse of clean women, and ten times worse than the dustiest dust. Uncle Ben came reeling in, not from any power of liquor, but because he was stiff from horseback, and weak from work and worry.
It is not every boyish fancy that proves to be true love. But enough of this preaching; I shall do better than write scolding letters, I shall come and scold you in person. My servant is at this very moment packing my portmanteau, the laquais-de- place is gone to Naples for my passport.
If that is what she is after, the sooner I take it in hand the better. Lunching by herself on the moors indeed! No; I am not at all afraid of the ferry, Emily. If you are, I will go alone, or take your good man." "The colonel is out shooting, as you know, and won't be back till tea-time," said Mrs. Hewel, becoming more and more flurried under this torrent of lively scolding. "The colonel!
You'll never guess! Olga Petrovna, Marcus Ivanovitch's wife his own wife that's who it is! She is the person who bought the matchbox!" "You you you are out of your mind!" "It's quite simple! To begin with, she smokes. Secondly, she was head and ears in love with Klausoff, even after he refused to live in the same house with her, because she was always scolding his head off.
In the foreground, in front of a farmhouse, snug-looking, with its roof of velvety-brown thatch, a troop of sturdy urchins, suntanned and stark naked, are frisking in the wildest gambols, all heedless of the scolding voice of the withered old grandam who sits spinning and minding the house, while her son and his wife are away toiling at some outdoor labour.
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