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When the body was put in the ground, the people went away, but the dog remained for a long time, and sitting silently on the fresh soil, she sniffed at the grave. Two weeks after the death of his father, on a Sunday, Pavel came home very drunk. Staggering he crawled to a corner in the front of the room, and striking his fist on the table as his father used to do, shouted to his mother: "Supper!"
"They are with their grandfather and grand-mother," said Mr. Barrett. Mr. Jernshaw sniffed. "And four uncles and five aunts," added Mr. Barrett, triumphantly. "Think how they would brighten up your house," said Mr. Jernshaw. His friend shook his head. "It wouldn't be fair to their grandmother," he said, decidedly. "Besides, Australia wants population." He found to his annoyance that Mr.
His skilled eye had detected a danger which none of the rest perceived. He drew close to the brow, and moved a little way down the bank. "What can he be up to?" wondered Laurette; and then she sniffed angrily because she had thought about him at all. Goodine dealt a few cautious strokes upon the central pile, paused a moment or two to reconnoitre, and then renewed his attack.
It's time we got you put underground, too; seems to me you're beginning to smell already!" He sniffed at him once or twice. But Erik sprang out of bed as if shot by a spring, and stood erect close to him. "I'm not dead yet, and perhaps I don't smell any more than some other people!" he said, his eyes flashing and looking about for a weapon.
Then Broome chose a cigar, sniffed it, and beheaded it. "My particular weakness!" he remarked pensively, while Roy filled his glass. "What an attentive godson it is! And after this intriguing prelude what of the main plot? India?" Under a glance as direct as the question Roy reddened furiously.
Pointing to the faint silvery crescent in the sky I said: "General, there's a new moon over us and I'm sure it means good luck for you." "No," he replied, "it's the man that makes the luck." He had had a trying day in the House and was silent in the motor car that brought us out. The moment we reached the country and he sniffed the scent of the gardens the anxiety and preoccupation fell away.
"Ah home, Peters," he sniffed at his chauffeur; and then, with a grandiloquent wave of his hand to Jimmie Dale: "'Night, Dale." Jimmie Dale smiled with his eyes which were hidden by the brim of his bat. "Good-night, Markel," he replied, and the smile crept curiously to the corners of his mouth as he watched the gray car disappear down the street.
Oh, you are cruel, cruel! Oh, baby, baby!" And she broke into a tempestuous passion of sobs and tears. The bystanders looked on in unmoved silence. Mother Mawks gathered her torn garments round her with a gesture of defiance, and sniffed the air as though she said, "Any one who wants to meddle with me will get the worst of it."
Harrington ran the tip of her gloved finger across half a dozen dingy volumes and sniffed. "Why don't you put glass doors on your bookshelves?" she asked. It was a raw point with me and she knew it. "The pretty kind, perhaps," I sneered, "with leaded panes and an antique iron lock?" "Exactly," she replied. "The dust here is abominable.
"This puttin' asunder business is all right, but there's always two sides to everything. I see this Thomas critter when he fust come, and he didn't look like no saint then nor smell like one, neither, unless 'twas a specimen pickled in alcohol." Here was irreverence almost atheistic. Keturah's face showed her shocked disapproval. Matilda Tripp voiced the general sentiment. "Humph!" she sniffed.
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