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We left the house, committing to Madeleine the task of choosing a favorable moment to hand M. Mouillard our joint entreaty. And here I may as well confess that from the instant we got out of the house, all through breakfast at the hotel, and for a quarter of an hour after it, M. Charnot treated me, in his best style, to the very hottest "talking-to" that I had experienced since my earliest youth.
"Oh, thanks," said Osborn, "thanks very much. Where's Marie?" "She's gone to bed." "Gone to bed, and left you here by yourself!" Then a thought assailed him: "I say," he asked himself, "is she is she staying behind to give me a talking-to about anything? What've I done now?" The question made him antagonistic, and he looked at her keenly.
I feel sure that after he is perfectly sober I can give him such a talking-to as will put a stop to this trouble." "Very well, sir.
He does not care for those he should, and he is forever in the green-room of the theatre." I made haste to change the subject, and to give her what comfort I might; for she was sobbing before she finished. And the next day I gave Tom a round talking-to for having so little regard for his sister, the hem of whose skirt he was not worthy to touch.
I think we'll all go down to the village first, and have some refreshment, and then I'll give him a good talking-to, and you'll find he'll be a very different dragon!" At that magic word refreshment the whole crowd formed up in procession and silently awaited the signal to start. The time for talking and cheering and betting was past, the hour for action had arrived. St.
As soon as Clare saw what the matter was, he slipped out of the cage, and catching up the obnoxious offender where he stood wagging all over as if his entire body were but a self-informed tail sped with him to his room, and gave him a serious talking-to. The puma was quiet the moment the dog was out of his sight.
"If we go out of this chart-house," said Sheriff doubtfully, "they'll swamp us by sheer weight. You must remember we've only got two pistols, yours and mine. The poor old skipper's is lost." "I'm going to try what a little quiet talking-to will do first, sir. I used to be a bit useful with my tongue, if I haven't lost the trick.
You are magnanimous, in fine that goes without saying; you have a coal-black horse, and a sabre-cut, and you can afford to be very magnanimous. But all the same you give them a good talking-to. This pleasant conceit simply ravished my soul for some twenty minutes, and then the old sense of injury began to well up afresh, and to call for new plasters and soothing syrups.
If you only knew how you have turned the tables on me. I sent for you, this afternoon, to give you a sound talking-to, and instead of that, here you sit and lecture me." "Well, if I have achieved something " "It's too absurd," she repeated more tartly. "For you to come here in this way to care for my character, when you yourself are the talk of the place."
I think we'll all go down to the village first, and have some refreshment, and then I'll give him a good talking-to, and you'll find he'll be a very different dragon!" At that magic word REFRESHMENT the whole crowd formed up in procession and silently awaited the signal to start. The time for talking and cheering and betting was past, the hour for action had arrived. St.
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