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"Umph!" half audibly exclaimed the hitherto mute wife, with a look that seemed to say, "What a bouncer he is telling now!" and she was evidently about to say something, comporting with the significant exclamation, but a glance from her husband, as he passed out of the door, quelled her into silence.

"Umph! a clear hand, more like a man's than a boy's," muttered the old gentlemen to himself as he examined what Owen had written. "You may go now, and remember what I told you." Saying this, Mr Fluke turned round on his stool, and applied himself to his work without another parting word to Owen, who, making the best of his way through the office, hastened out at the door.

Burr drew from an inside pocket a long, narrow memorandum book, written full of names. "This is what I call my Roster of the Faithful," he said, and looked searchingly into the face of the patriarch, whose glum reticence puzzled him. "Umph! Faithful to what?" "To their principles and their friends. I assume that we know each other's history and political views.

Then came the Sahibs from over the sea and called them to most strict account. 'Some such rumour, I believe, reached me once long ago. They called it the Black Year, as I remember. 'What manner of life hast thou led, not to know The Year? A rumour indeed! All earth knew, and trembled! 'Our earth never shook but once upon the day that the Excellent One received Enlightenment. 'Umph!

"Umph," he said. He looked again, frowning. I did not know then that, whether the Queen liked him or disliked him, she ever took heed of his looks; and I started when she cried pettishly "Well, sir, what now? What is it?" The Cardinal pursed up his lips. My lord the Bishop could bear it no longer. "He will say presently," he cried, snorting with indignation, "that it is not the dog!

They say she was pretty, and you are the first pretty woman I have seen in these parts, Co." "Well, then, I'm sorry you didn't," quoth Cora, "for from motives of delicacy I really don't care to inquire of others, and I have just curiosity enough to wish to know how she looked." "Sorry I can't enlighten you, Co. Get it all out of the old fellow after the joyful event." "Umph!

Ah, I see it clearly," he unconsciously uttered aloud, following hard in Pete's footsteps. "Hey? what d'ye see?" asked the prospector, suddenly stopping and looking at his companion. Keith laughed. "Nothing outwardly," he replied. "I must have been dreaming and forgot myself." "Umph!" returned the other, and continued on his way.

"Nothing. People in books would mount on a very high pinnacle of virtue and cast off Mr. Durnovo and all his works; but it is much more practical to make what use we can of him. That is a worldly-wise, nineteenth-century way of looking at it; we cannot do without him." The contemplativeness of nicotine was upon Guy Oscard. "Umph!" he grunted.

Therefore, while I do not ask you to keep a watch, or even to remain awake, I strongly urge you to keep your weapons beside you, ready loaded, so that if, by any unfortunate chance, it should be necessary for us to call upon you to assist in defending the ship, you may be able to respond without delay." "Umph!" grunted the general. "Better tell us exactly what you mean, Grenvile.

This time he was not so sure of exemption from interruption, for he expected the Quaker would in a while be coming back homewards again. And he was quite right. Just as he was about to put out his candle, there was a cry of "Gate." He descended, and behold the Quaker once more presented himself. "It really is past twelve, thou says?" "Umph!" grunted the fellow.