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But Rowdy stayed where he was, with the gate creaking to and fro between them. Dixie circled till his back was to the wind. "I hope you don't think you're going to mill around out here alone," Rowdy said tartly. "I can manage very well. I'm not lost now, I tell you. Rodway's is only three miles from here, and I know the direction."
"No, no; that young quicksilver customer with the curly poll." "Oh! that, sir! He wouldn't do," cried the two masters almost in a breath. "How do you know!" said the doctor tartly. "Very bad boy indeed, sir, I'm sorry to say," said the schoolmaster. "Yes, sir; regular young imp; so full of mischief that he corrupts the other boys. Can't say a word in his favour; and, besides, he's too young."
"Did you ever hear the like of the conceit?" exclaimed Mrs. Forest as the laughter subsided. "Excuse my frankness, Jack, but you're an ass," said the Colonel tartly. "You set an example to the world? Why, you're as spoiled as the rest of us!" cried Bessie. "Quite true, Cousin, but with this difference, I realize that fact and the rest of you do not."
When Calais was besieged by the foe, before its surrender she offered to send her fleet for its protection if Henry would give the city to her. Henry tartly replied, "I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends." The queen was offended, sent no succor, and Calais passed into the hands of the Leaguers. The king was exceedingly distressed at the loss of this important town.
Stephen kissed his sister and gave her a rapturous hug. Hanny came up-stairs and Margaret hurried through her change of attire. "I thought you never were coming," began their mother tartly. "'Milyer, you're the worst of the lot when you get your nose buried in a newspaper. Boys, do keep still, though I suppose you're half starved," with a reproachful look at those who had delayed the meal.
Podge was sure he was suspicious the next night when she read on his tablets the rather imputative remark, "Is there anything demoralizing in teaching public schools?" She replied tartly, "Yes, stupid old visitors and parents!" "Excuse me!" he wrote; "I meant politicians." She replied in the same spirit as before, "I think politicians are divine!"
Crow, isn't it possible that these men saw her after she left the basket at " began the Presbyterian minister. "That ain't the way I deduce it," observed the town detective tartly. "In the first place, she wouldn't 'a' been standin' 'round like that if the job was over, would she? Wouldn't she 'a' been streakin' out fer home? 'Course she would."
I therefore replied, that I had been there nearly the whole day, and did not wish to go out any more. "Never mind whether you wish it or not; I wish you to go," replied Miss Medea, tartly. "Medea, how can you be so rude?" cried Mr Culpepper; "surely Mr Keene may do as he pleases. I'm surprised at you, Medea."
"I think, Herr von Gondremark," said Seraphina, somewhat tartly, "you often attribute your own sagacity to your Princess." For a second Gondremark staggered under the shrewdness of the attack; the next, he had perfectly recovered. "Do I?" he said. "It is very possible. I have observed a similar tendency in your Highness."
He stammered on through a sentence or two about 'wildness' and 'nobody to interfere with you, and then I broke in: 'You surely don't want to leave the Baltic? 'Why not? said he, staring into the compass. 'Hang it, man! I returned, tartly, 'here we are in October, the summer over, and the weather gone to pieces.
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