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'I want one of those silvered fox-stoles advertised at a guinea. 'You'll probably find them over there, madam, said the shopwalker, pointing. 'Aren't you sure? she asked tartly. 'I don't want to struggle across there and then find they're somewhere else. The shopwalker turned his back on her. 'Well, I never! she exclaimed to herself, and decided that Albert should avenge her.
'O no I should not mind that if it came to marrying. The difference is not much for husband and wife, though it is rather much for keeping company. She struggled to get free, and when in the movement she knocked down the Empress Faustina's head he did not try to retain her. He saw that she was not only surprised but a little alarmed. 'You haven't said why it is nonsense! he remarked tartly.
Her husband called out to her: "And have you nothing for me, duckie?" "O, you! The back of my hand to you!" said Mrs. Kernan tartly. Her husband called after her: "Nothing for poor little hubby!" He assumed such a comical face and voice that the distribution of the bottles of stout took place amid general merriment.
With humorous intent he asked: "Do you know as much as Oliver?" "Oliver's a field officer," she replied tartly, and Doggie felt snubbed. "But I'm sure he agrees with everything I say." She paused and, in a different tone, went on: "Don't you think it's rather rotten to have this piffling argument when I've come all this long way to see you?"
Mr Limpney snatched the paper from the boy's hand, and was about to tear it up, when the door opened and Dr Grayson entered. "Well," he said pleasantly, "and how are we getting on?" "Getting on, sir?" said Mr Limpney tartly. "Will you have the goodness to ask my pupil!" "To be sure to be sure," said the doctor. "Well, Dexter, how are you getting on? Eh? what's this?
"Gone to Romford, if you wish to know, to see her mother." "Gone to Romford?" "I said Romford, didn't I?" retorted the raw-boned lady, tartly. "What what time do you expect her in?" "Sunday evening, six o'clock," replied the raw-boned lady.
"You seem to get along well enough with them," I suggested tartly, remembering Mother Borton's stories with some suspicion. "Of course," said Dicky. "Why shouldn't I? They're all right if you don't rub the fur the wrong way. But I haven't got state secrets in my pockets, so they know it's no use to pick 'em."
Her brothers told her study had not agreed with her, and she did not, as of old, answer tartly, but gave a stiff, mechanical smile, and all the evening talked in a woman-of-the-world manner, cleverly, agreeably, not putting out her prickles, but like a stranger, and as if on her guard.
"And what's that?" said Pete. "Was it yourself, Kitty? How straight your voice is like the throstle's!" She hung her head at the sweet praise, but answered tartly, "How people will be talking!" A dead white light came sweeping over the front of the house, and the trees and the hedges, all quiet until then, began to shudder. Kate shuddered too, and drew the frills closer about her throat.
Kneebreeches'. I have made up my mind about that, for to-day, do you know, cuckoo " "Yesterday," corrected the cuckoo. "Always be exact in your statements, Griselda." "Well, yesterday, then," said Griselda, rather tartly; "though when you know quite well what I mean, I don't see that you need be so very particular. Well, as I was saying, I tried and tried, but still they were fearful.
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