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Just before they reached the doors, Brightman, with a tall, stalwart-looking friend, slipped past them on the right. Another man fell almost into line upon the left, and jostled the young officer as he did so. The latter glanced at both of them a little truculently. "Say, don't push me!" he exclaimed threateningly. "You keep clear." Neither of the men took any notice.
"I like what we've got very well," she said truculently "It's done for us properly this thirty year." "That's just it," said the Rector, "it's done so well that I think we ought to let it retire from business, and appoint something younger in its place ... he! he!" He looked at her nervously to see if she had appreciated the joke, but Joanna's humour was not of that order.
Jokes, or what passed in that crew for them, flew thickly, growing more ribald and suggestive as the girl stood, indifferent, and looked about her. Then Sucatash strode between her and the group near the bar from which most of the noise emanated. He hitched his belt a bit and faced them truculently. "You-all had better shut up," he announced in a flat voice.
"They get up again, though," Helen said with a chuckle. "For instance?" Miriam demanded truculently. "Oh, I'm not going to be hard on you," Helen said, and though she spoke with genuine amusement, she felt a little seed of anger germinating in her breast. That was what George had done to her: he had made her heart a fertile place for passions which her mind disdained.
"And when I come off ze manager kiss me on both cheeks. Et c'etait fait." They applauded joyously. Her brutal egotism was a good joke. They expected nothing else from her. She was like an animal whose cruelty and cunning one could observe without moral qualms. "It was a mean thing to have done," Stonehouse said loudly and truculently "a treacherous thing." A shadow was on Cosgrave's face.
Whether or not we build up a steel capacity as large as Amschel Mayer's isn't important now. Everything's at stake." "Don't talk to me that way, Barry," Chessman growled truculently. "I'll make the decisions. I'll do the thinking." He said to Reif, "How much of the Tulan army is loyal?" The aging Tulan looked at Watson before turning back to Joe Chessman. "All of the Tulan army is loyal to me."
The two set about it. "Where's that damn ol' reprobate?" inquired Billy, truculently, looking about for Charley. The patriarch had quietly slipped away. "You kin drop them hands," advised the stranger, lowering the muzzles of his weapons. The leader started to say something. "You shut up!" said Billy, selecting his own weapons from the heap.
"Now," he said, "trot out your grievance; but speak briefly and to the point. I can't and won't have my morning wasted. If you meander in your statements, I shall simply row back again to the yacht and leave you there." "It's a curious thing," said Doyle, "that a gentleman like you would find a pleasure in preventing a poor man from earning his living." He spoke truculently.
He rushed up the steps impatiently, applied his latch-key and pushed in the door. He slammed it and went directly to his study. Bolles was asleep in a chair. McQuade shook him roughly. Bolles opened his eyes. "You've been on a drunk," said McQuade, quickly noting the puffed eyes and haggard cheeks. "But I've got what I went after, all the same," replied Bolles truculently. "What have you got?
The half-sneer changed to a look of open defiance, as Wentworth faced McNabb. "It seems," he said truculently, "that I am guilty of a serious faux pas in mentioning a bit of Terrace City scandal that reached my ears concerning the elopement of your estimable fur clerk, Hedin, and a Russian sable coat. The idiot didn't have the brains to get away with it.
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