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"Then let her go," he had said testily. He was on the point of falling asleep, and did not want to be disturbed any more. "Good night, darling, have a good night's rest. Now that you've come home again you'll do what you think right." Yes, that she would! From that day forth she never let the boy out of her sight. And her ears were everywhere.
"Yes, and no." "But mostly no?" responded the cynic. "Yes, Billy Little, so far it's been mostly no; but the time will come when I will be very happy because of it." "Not if you can help it. We will see how it turns out in the end." "Billy Little, you are the greatest croaker I ever knew," observed Dic, testily. "It is better to croak early than to sing too soon. But what do you want?"
"What in the world is the matter, Chips?" demanded Leslie testily, as with a single glance he took in the full condition of affairs. "Oh, Mr Leslie, sir, something awful has just happened!" exclaimed the man addressed, stammering with agitation and excitement.
"But this is not the letter I expected," tapping it with his finger, and looking altogether so puzzled and astonished that Roland stared in his turn. "It's not my fault," returned he. "Shall I run round, sir, and ask John about it?" "No," testily answered Mr. Galloway. "Don't be so fond of running round. This letter There's some one come into the office," he broke off.
"That play got on your nerves, didn't it?" suddenly asked the lazy, half-careless voice at his side. Durkin and the young Chicagoan were in the musky-smelling Promenade by this time, and up past the stands at the sea-front the breath of the Mediterranean blew in their faces, fresh, salty, virile. "This whole place gets on my nerves!" said Durkin testily.
Eugenia had instructed her family upon the changed conditions of Nicholas's social standing, but her logic was powerless to convince her father that Amos Burr's son was any better than Amos Burr had been before him. "Pish! Pish!" he exclaimed testily, "the boy's not a lawyer only gentlemen belong to the bar, but there's nobody too high or too low to be a farmer. Polite to him?
This was his way of showing his sympathy, which really was most deep and sincere But somehow it provoked Grandmamma, who was, it must be confessed, rather a quick-tempered old lady at all times, and at present her nerves were of course unusually irritated. "Well, what is it, Dymock?" she said testily. "I wish you would not go about like a mute at a funeral. You make me think I don't know what."
"But this Fantômas is not a devil," the magistrate broke in testily; "he is a man like you and me!" "You are right, sir, in saying he is a man; but I repeat, the man is a genius! I don't know whether he works alone or whether he is the head of a gang of criminals; I know nothing of his life; I know nothing of his object.
"Some one fired a shot," they explained, somewhat crestfallen. "It was a trick, you fools," he answered testily. "Get back to your prisoner." Without a word they turned and hurried toward the house, Del Mar following. "You two go in," he ordered the foremost. "I'll go around the house with Patrick."
King, quite deep in the plans for the Tree, Joel having added himself to their company. "Oh, nothing; Polly wants it, and we must make it a good one," said Jasper, rather incoherently, and beginning to retreat. "Of course it will be a good one," said his father, a trifle testily, "if we have it at all. When did we ever get up a poor Tree, pray tell?"
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