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When they heard the name Caruso, they laughed scornfully. 'What, the Broken Tenor? they asked. But Lombardi pressed my claim, assured them I could be engaged, and no doubt would be glad to sing for nothing. "So I was sent for. Lombardi talked with me awhile first.
"You are pleasant, maiden," replied the old lady, scornfully, "or, if your words are meant in earnest, the shaft of your censure has glanced aside. A house, blessed by the holy Saint Dunstan, and by the royal and holy Confessor, is no abode for evil spirits."
"Come with me," said the young scout finally. As they turned toward the fort they met Sam Oliver, who stopped and gazed in surprise at Peleg's companion, and laughed scornfully when he heard the story of the stranger. "You say you and your Shawnee father and brother buried the canoe in which you came down the river?" demanded the hunter brutally as he turned upon the visitor. "Bury canoe."
These three had a wagon and riding horses, and they were accompanied by a second wagon, owned by Sam, the liveryman, who took with him Curly's mozo, the giant Mexican, Juan. The latter drove the team, a task which Curly scornfully refused when it was offered him, his cowboy creed rating any conveyance other than the saddle as far beneath his station. "Juan can drive all right," he said.
The almoner deemed it unworthy of him to listen to a report of the caresses which she scornfully mentioned.
He broke off and watched Jean anxiously. "A half face!" Jean said scornfully. "The pretty view! As for kindness " He put the photograph face down on the table. "I knew once a man in Belgium who married an American. At Antwerp. They were most unhappy." Henri smiled. "You are lying," he said with boyish pleasure in his own astuteness. "You knew no such couple. You are trying to make me resigned."
But this cruelty does not excuse ours. Man's wickedness does not make us the less guilty. We will be held responsible all the same." The other woman looked thoughtful. "Well," she said at last, "I haven't quite lost all faith in womanly mercy. Women don't mean to be cruel; the trouble is they don't think." "Don't think!" echoed Mrs. Brown scornfully. "Don't think!
"Yo' Yanks," she said scornfully, "think yourselves moughty smart with all your book-larnin', and yo'uns put on heaps o' airs over po' folks what hain't no eddication; but what you don't know about Tennessee woods would make a bigger book than ever was printed." "I believe you," said Shorty fervently.
"No," said Mr Durfy, scornfully, "I guessed not. You're too stuck-up for us, I can tell you. Here, Barber." An unhealthy-looking young man answered to the name. "Take this chap here to the back case-room, and see he sweeps it out and dusts the cases.
But in her eyes was a soft, young light that I have often seen in the eyes of priests and nuns, and that their comforting religion gives them. But as we talked I spoke of the Germans. Gone from her eyes was all their softness. They flashed a bitter and contemptuous hatred. "The Germans!" she said. She spat upon the ground, scornfully, and with a gesture of infinite loathing.
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