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Then the roving eyes came back to the older woman and settled with unconcealed curiosity upon her lined and sharply cut features. Beneath the intentness of the scrutiny Ellen colored uneasily. "Well?" she demanded tartly. Lucy started. "You seem to have made up your mind about me," went on the rasping voice. "Am I what you expected?" "No." The monosyllable came quietly.
He went up to the woman and said: "You say you want to go into camp to sell your pies?" "Yes, sir, an' I want to go in right off no more foolin' around," she answered tartly. "How many pies've you got?" She went through a laborious counting, and finally announced: "Eight altogether." "How much are they worth?" "Fifty cents apiece." "Very good," announced Si taking some money from his pocket.
'Lena reddened, for she knew that, whether deservedly or not, she bore the reputation of being an excellent scholar, for one of her age, and now she rather tartly answered, "I study geography, arithmetic, grammar, and " history, she was going to add, but her uncle stopped her, saying, "That'll do, that'll do. You study all these? Now I don't suppose you know what one of 'em is."
Fits rose and took off his overcoat, tossing it on to the next chair. "What are you two whispering about?" demanded the rough intruder, eyeing Prescott and Darrin, who were now at the further end of the log cabin. "Never you mind," Dave retorted tartly. "Don't give me any impudence, younker!" growled Fits. "Then don't talk to us," Dick advised.
"Phoenix Park ah, he was a capable fellow with the sword! I said so always, and I'd back him now against a champion; but many a bad man has been a good swordsman." "So, that's what good swordsmanship does, is it? I wondered what it was that did it. I hear you fight him still but with a bludgeon, and he dodges it." "I do not understand," declared Lord Mallow tartly.
"Say, this is rather interesting, Professor," he remarked. "Really?" the latter replied tartly. "You must forgive me if I cannot follow the complications of your pardon me for saying Munchausen-like affairs. How does the arrest of these two men help you?" "Don't you see?" Quest explained. "These are the two thugs who set upon me up at the section house.
Gibson, in great trepidation at any one performing the office for her mistress, started to do it, but Curtis was already most gallantly, if a trifle awkwardly, pushing up the pillow, giving it a rousing thump that got on the nerves of the maid. "You should have waited for me," she said tartly. "Never mind; that is all right." Mrs.
And railroads bring sports. You don't hear of any lumbermen grumbling about the Poquette carry." "I should say, then, this section should have a little enterprise shaken into it," said Whittaker, tartly. This promised opposition promptly fired his modern spirit of progress.
"We did, but they drew Tom off on a false trail," explained Phil. "I notice they worked the rest of us, too," retorted his father tartly. "I heard the shooting," Keller said innocently. His eyes drifted to a meeting with those of Phyllis. His telegraphed a question, and hers answered that the prisoner was safe so far. "A dead man could have heard it," suggested Phil, not without sarcasm.
If I find her I shall find the boy; but what good is that going to do me, if I find either of them or both of them, if we can't disillusionize the boy?" "In a word," interrupted the doctor, rather tartly, "all you want of me is to walk across the troubled stage " "For Peggy's sake," I observed. "Of course, yes, for Peggy's sake.
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