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"Nonsense, he's a very fine fellow." "How do you know?" "Well, I know this," testily, "that I am not to be instructed as to the sort of person I can ask to my house." "Oh, Father, I didn't mean that. Of course you can do as you please." "Of course I shall, Claudia." "I think he is charming," said Mrs. Paine. "He has lovely eyes." "Hasn't he?" said little Becky.

Some wild young rogue, with a plenty of money, I warrant, if I could only think of him come, don't keep me all day who the plague is he, Toole? urged the young lady, testily. 'Dan Loftus, answered Toole, 'ha, ha, ha, ha! 'Dan Loftus! the grand tour why, where's the world running to?

"I never spoke a word to the girl," the uncle said, "and I never sent her away from you, and know no more about her, and wish to know no more about her, than about the man in the moon." "Then it's my mother that did it," Arthur broke out. "Did my mother send that poor child away?" "I repeat I know nothing about it, sir," the elder said testily. "Let's change the subject, if you please."

I stopped her week's money for losing her hat this morning, and she's got ahead of me and come down to get it of the governor." There was a sudden and mysterious silence in the inner room. James Bowdoin looked at Jamie, and noted again his expression. "What's the matter, Jamie? Have you anything to tell me?" "It's for Mr. Bowdoin's private ear, Mr. James," said Jamie testily.

Then he ordered Murgatroyd to set the propellers in motion. The engineer pulled the starting-levers, and then came up out of the engine-room and said to him: "It's no good, my Lord; I don't know what devil's world we've got into now, but they won't work. If I thought that engines could be bewitched " "Oh, nonsense, Andrew!" said his lordship rather testily.

"On my faith, what has she done to thee? Thou art as like her as the foal to the mare." This exclamation disconcerted the visitors, but luckily for them the Earl laughed and declared that he could see no resemblance in Mistress Cicely's dark brows to the arched ones of the Queen of Scots, to which his wife replied testily, "Who said there was?

"Longer, I confess, than they'll give you in an hour's time, if you remain; but it may lead elsewhere." The boy's mouth was parched. His eyes burned in their sockets, and yet his limbs shook with cold but not the cold of that September night. "I'll try it," he muttered with a gulp. Then suddenly clutching Galliard's arm, he pointed to the window. "What ails you now?" quoth Crispin testily.

"It's up to you, Piers," he said. "Is it?" said Piers, with a groan. "Well, let's leave it at that for the present! Sure you've forgiven me?" Sir Beverley's grim face relaxed again. He put his arm round Piers and held him hard for a moment. Then: "Oh, drat it, Piers!" he said testily. "Get away, do! And behave yourself for the future!"

"Here's that stranger come again, sir," he began, in low tones; and it may as well be remarked that in moments of forgetfulness he often did address his master as he used to address him in the past. "He asked if " "What stranger?" rather testily interposed Lord Hartledon. "I am at dinner, and can't see any stranger now. What are you thinking about, Hedges?"

Baxter had gradually learned not to protest anxieties of this kind, unless he desired to argue with no prospect of ever getting a decision. "Hasn't she got any HOME?" he demanded, testily. "Isn't she ever going to quit visiting the Parchers and let people have a little peace?" Mrs. Baxter disregarded this outburst as he had disregarded her remark about William's pallor.