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"Little Daffodil!" he said again, and a big smile dawned on his face. He was still engaged in reading when a bell shrilled in the hall. He rose to his feet and stood listening and the bell rang again. He switched off the light, pulled aside the thick curtain which hid the window, and peered out through the fog.
Here he paused and listened, thinking that he heard somebody in the room. Nor was he mistaken, for presently a well-remembered voice shrilled out: "Who's skulking round outside there? If it's one of those bailiffs he'd better hook it, for there's nothing left here." George's countenance positively beamed at the sound.
It's either Carson or Bayle. I don't know which." Coombe walked toward the staircase. "You can't open the door!" she shrilled. "He has doubtless come prepared to open it himself." he answered and proceeded at leisure down the narrow stairway. The caller had come prepared.
But she had scarcely got through the phrase when a piercing cat-call shrilled through the house from the back of the pit. Almost simultaneously a derisive howl came from the gallery; and then an appalling hissing, hooting, and groaning broke on Cleo with the force of a tempest that drove towards her from all points. She turned a defiant face to it and gave the house a blazing look of contempt.
Every one of you get out of here as fast as your feet will carry you!" John stood up, sheepishly, Douglas eying him belligerently. "Look here, Grandma," Charleton shook his finger in the old lady's face, "I want you to understand that " "Understand!" shrilled Grandma. "Understand! You have the face to try to say anything to me, Charleton Falkner?
Since the abandonment of the house in Wilton Square, Kate had incessantly railed in this way; it was a joy to her to have discovered new matter for invective. Emma's persistent silence maddened her; even now not a word was to be got from the girl. 'Can't you speak? shrilled Mrs. Clay. 'If you don't do something, I let you know that I shall!
"Have you really broken your engagement with Jim?" shrilled Tanny in a high voice, as the train roared. "Yes, he's impossible," said Josephine. "Perfectly hysterical and impossible." "And SELFISH " cried Tanny. "Oh terribly " cried Josephine. "Come up to Hampstead to lunch with us," said Lilly to Aaron. "Ay thank you," said Aaron. Lilly scribbled directions on a card.
When the old, old woman had looked down upon the girl, she'd smiled that senile smile of age that split her lips like a knife cut. "Ha! So it air another brat comin' to the shanty," she shrilled. "Holy Mary! It air the way of the world, the way of woman." And now she'd gone, leaving the boy baby under the coverlet with Tessibel. A weary apathy had settled over the young mother.
Hastings fretfully commented. "I'm sure, Olivia," she said, "I think it is frightfully unwomanly in you " "To take so much interest in my own murder?" Miss Holland asked in amusement. "Aunt Dora, I'm going to do more: I suggest that you and Mr. Frothingham and I go with Mr. St. George to this address in McDougle Street " "My dear Olivia!" shrilled Mrs.
"'Tis the eyes o' four lump-fish," said my sister. My mother dropped the glass, so that the contents were spilled over the coverlet, and fell back on the pillows, where she lay white and still. "Out with you!" said my sister to the doctor-woman. "I'll have no more o' your cures!" "Oh, my!" shrilled the woman, dropping into her most biting manner. "She won't have no more o' my cures!
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