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"Nothing nothing at all." "And you say you went to bed without satisfying your natural curiosity as to what you had seen?" roared the Captain. "I don't believe it! Buck up now, and tell us what was done after the fourth man entered the hut, or I'll send you to the military prison at Manila." "I have told everything," said Tag with a sniffle.

I only wish you were safely out of here and back in the North!" Letty began to cry softly: "Forgive me, please; I'm not naturally as tearful as this. I am just tired. I've done too much seen too much and it hasn't hardened me; it has made me like a silly child, ready to sniffle at anything." Berkley laughed gently. "Why are you crying now, Letty?" "B-because they have offered me a furlough.

Here the poor Abbess, indignation overcrowding her borrowed mannishness, began to sniffle and to assert that the speaker was a faithless pig, but Villon, unheeding her whimpers, went on with his tale. "She was going to church God shield her but she looked my way as she passed, and though she saw me no more than she saw the cobble-stone I stood on, I saw her once and for ever.

When, for instance, Tom Sniffle first went into the country as Curate for Mr. He had his aunt to live with him. His conduct to his poor was admirable. He wrote annually reams of the best-intentioned and vapid sermons.

'An', says she, 'is it not lonely, Skipper Thomas, says she, 'at the Rat Hole? 'No, mum, says I, takin' aboard another bucket or two, 'for I've the twins, says I. With that she put her kerchief to her eyes, Davy, an' begun t' sniffle.

He knew that the moisture on it was Slattery's blood. The iron pipe in Old Man Anderson's hands had struck Slattery on the head just once, but once was enough. Old Man Anderson burst into hiccoughing sobs. The younger convict punched him in the ribs, and swore at him in muffled tones. Anderson stifled his sobs then, but continued to sniffle and shiver.

As we placed an overcoat over the shapeless form, I heard a sniffle behind me and found the red-haired mechanician at my side. "You didn't get him, you dirty cops. He got away from you, after all." "Yes, he's safe now," I murmured. "Sure! An' he would 'a' been always if he hadn't been daff' over women. He never had no luck when he played the women.

"What's the matter, can't you make your bed?" asked Katherine, remembering Carmen's helplessness in that line upon a former occasion. "I haven't any partner!" answered Carmen, with another sniffle. "I had one, but she's run away from me." "Who was it?" asked Katherine. "Jane Pratt," replied Carmen.

"I'm just like Cinderella, with four godmothers!" cried the child; and she danced up and down, as Leslie let her go from under her hands. "You're just like a little heathen!" screamed Aunt Hoskins. "Where's yer thanks?" Her own thanks spoke themselves, partly in an hysterical sort of chuckle and sniffle, that stopped each other short, and the rebuke with them. "But there! she don't know no better!

"You talk as if you'd been going to see too many of those insufferable screen-plays that make the proletariat sniffle and the intelligent swear. I am merely a business man, Miss Eustis, and attending to this particular affair for my employer is all in the course of the day's work. I er am not in a position to refuse to obey orders or to be captious, particularly since Mr.