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Ye can begin when you please, an', up to a certain pint, ye can stop when ye please; but after that pint, ye can't stop o' yer own free will ye'd die first. Many an' many a poor fellow has died first, as I know." "An' pray, Mister Solomon, do you smoke?" inquired March testily, thinking that this question would reduce his companion to silence. "No, never." "Not smoke?" cried March in amazement.
Reffold asked testily. "To send a message of excuse," she answered, with provoking cheerfulness. She scribbled something on a card, and gave it to the servant who answered the bell. "Now," she said, with great sweetness of manner. And she sat down beside him, drew out her fancy-work, and worked away contentedly.
At once the Englishman's dormant suspicions again awoke into full activity, and, lighting the lantern, he proceeded to repeat his investigation, going his rounds in the opposite direction this time; and, sure enough, when he came to the place where he had left Ling lying, the spot was vacant Ling had disappeared. "Now what in the world is the explanation of this?" Frobisher asked himself testily.
"It seems to me your part of the world needs looking after," Sir James exclaimed testily. Sir John ignored this shaft. "You'd better ride over to Pendennis Castle to-morrow and borrow as many men as the garrison can spare you." "A score should be plenty," said Sir James. "It's astonishing or so I've always heard what a few trained men will do against irregulars."
"I don't suppose," said Linda casually, "it would amount to enough to keep one in shoes these inflated days." "Oh, I don't know about that," said John testily. "I have seen a few of those cheques in your Father's time. You should be able to keep fairly well supplied with shoes." "So I should," said Linda drily. "So I should."
"Kahn," repeated Carton a little testily, "how often must I repeat to you and your people that I am NOT going to compromise this case in any shape, form, or manner? I am going to fight it out on the lines I have indicated if I have to disrupt this entire office to get men to do it.
"Well," he said judicially, "since you drag it from me, I think perhaps it is. You you're such a confirmed woman-hater that I hardly knew how you would take it." "Nothing of the sort," I denied testily. "Because a man reaches the age of thirty without making maudlin love to every "
"Surely," he said, appealing to the judge in a voice trembling with indignant feeling, "my learned friend will not further harass this witness." "Let her go, in Heaven's name," said Staunton testily; "we want no more of her." "So I should suppose," replied O'Hara drily. With Mrs. Fitzpatrick, the case for the Crown was closed.
"I shall hardly dare to let you out of my sight again, Carmel!" she said, half laughingly, yet half in earnest. "I don't want to have to write to your mother and tell her you're drowned!" "Nonsense!" declared the Major rather testily. "It's not a thing she's likely to do twice! I should think she'd be frightened to go anywhere near a river again just yet. Are those clothes dry?
"You'll have your labor for your pains, then, and the satisfaction of finding yourselves fools," exclaimed Dunlop testily. "You'd better drop all that nonsense, and report to me after breakfast." "It's not to be thought of, Mr. Dunlop," Tom replied gravely. "We are here in the land of gold.
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