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"I'm to come too, ain't I?" said the latter. "No, you are to help keep guard," was the reply; and very sulkily Joses resumed his place, while the Beaver descended with Bart and four of his men to enter the rock stable and obtain their horses, the rest having to remain fasting while their companions were mounted and ridden out; the Indian ponies in particular resenting the indignity of being shut up again behind the stones by turning round and kicking vehemently.
"Eleanor wants you! Something's the matter, and " Before she could finish, Maurice was tearing upstairs, two steps at a time.... And so it was that Edith, sulkily, worked on the roof by herself. Yet Maurice had not entirely "backed out." ... The very next morning, before Edith was awake, he had gone out to the henhouse, and, alone, done more than his share of the shingling.
He sat sulkily smothering his wrath longing to leave the hall and go to the relief of the Intendant, but kept against his will by the command of the Governor. The drums of the main guard beat the assembly. The clash of arms and the tramp of many feet resounded from the court-yard of the Chateau.
Uncle Felix raised his voice till it seemed to thunder out the words. "Them was my instructions, sir," the man was heard to mumble sulkily. Uncle Felix, to the children's immense delight and admiration, took a step nearer to the man of law.
"If these are all the ideas you have gained from what you have heard, our task will not be by any means an easy one." Paul was wounded by Tantaine's contemptuous manner. "I understand well enough, sir," answered he sulkily, "that this is merely a prologue to a romantic drama." "You are right, my lad," cried he, in a more satisfied voice; "and it is one that is quite indispensable.
Before the fireplace, where a few coals burned sulkily, was drawn a leathern elbow chair, and beside it, on the corner of a writing-table, were set an unlit candle and a pile of manuscripts. All this I took in with the tail of my eye, while staring straight in front, where, in the middle of a great square of carpet between me and the windows, was a table with a red cloth upon it.
"Lookit here, Tweezy," said Judge Dolan, slouching to the front of the crowd, "are you gonna run them women off thataway after this?" Here the Judge jerked his head backward in the direction of the body. "Why not?" Tweezy demanded, sulkily. "We got a right to." "It don't always pay to stand on our rights, Luke," suggested the Judge. "I'd go a li'l easy if I was you."
I asked. "'Oh, it's only a rotten, silly yarn that he has picked up somewhere. You're not to tell him, Raggerton. "'I don't see why I am not to be told, I said, rather sulkily. 'I'm not a baby. "'No, said Alfred, 'but you're an invalid. You don't want any horrors. "In effect, he refused to go into the matter any further, and I was left on tenter-hooks of curiosity.
They were his own flesh and blood and the cupboard had a capital lock and there wasn't no fear of it at all. Isaac listened to her at first with amazement, then sulkily. She had talked to him often certainly about John's money, but it had made little impression on his dreamer's sense. And now her demand struck him disagreeably. He didn't want the worrit of other people's money, he said.
I washed the plates, the coffee pot and other things, in the pond and she packed them in the basket. As I returned with the knife and forks I found her looking at the coffee pot and smiling. "What is the matter?" I asked, sulkily. I was provoked with myself for forgetting who and what I was, and with her for making me forget. "Isn't it clean?" "Why, yes," she answered, "surprisingly so.
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