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The clock in the corner ticked on with melancholy regularity, the logs hissed and spluttered viciously; but the two men sat in utter stillness, both bowed as if beneath a pressing burden. One of them moved at last, stretched out a bony, trembling hand, laid it on the other's shoulder.

"Yes, I daresay he has got a title," said Courtenay, who looked viciously angry at being thwarted; and he was the more enraged because Mr Solomon bent down and helped me at the bed, taking no notice whatever of the orders for me to go. "Yes," said Philip; "he's a barrow-net a wheelbarrow-net. Ha, ha, ha!" "With a potato-fork for his crest." "And ragged coat without any arms," said Philip.

His eyes lighted up viciously as he was swept along past the great marble house, gleaming out in the shady compound, where the Rosebud of Delhi was hidden. "Cursed old curmudgeon! To lock the girl up!" muttered the handsome young rascal. "Old Ram Lal must do a bit of spying for me!"

The whip-lash fell viciously across the horse's back and the old rackety buggy rattled as Dudgeon finished his drive at a canter. "Well, what do you want?" he cried, as he pulled up opposite his door. Durham glanced from the stern, hard face of the man to the pile of money-bags clustered round his feet on the floor of the buggy, and over which he had not even taken the trouble to throw a rug.

The latter action was taken, and the nomination was laid naked before the Senate. The matter was considered in executive session. Senator Edmunds at once took the floor and attacked Judge Fuller most viciously as having sympathized with the Rebellion, together with much to the same effect.

But of all men I have ever known, I really think the most provoking is Charles." "Musing?" inquired her nephew, sauntering up to her. "I was thinking that we had just lost the pleasantest person of our little party," said Lady Mary, viciously seizing up her work. "I am still here," suggested Charles, by way of consolation. "I don't start for Norway in Wyndham's yacht for three days to come."

"You had spoken of a wedding, this was a wedding-gift, and that's right, sign there!" There was a brief pause, in which she appeared to hesitate, and then she wrote her name in a large firm hand, and, throwing down the pen, caught up her gloves, and began to pull them on viciously. "Thanks. It is very kind of you," he said.

He backed and sidled and tossed his head, he fidgeted with his bit, he glared viciously this way and that, and so became aware of other four-legged creatures like himself, notably of Sir Mortimer's powerful gray near by, and in his heart he scorned them, one and all, proud of his strength and might, and sure of himself because of the hand upon his bridle.

"You mad bullock, you, why did you roar out just now, eh?" he whispered in the ear of Mekipiros, and he viciously tugged at the stunted monster's bristly hair with one hand, at the same time holding his other hand before his mouth to prevent him from screaming out.

Moving his crooked legs upon the hot sand and closing a red lid over one white blind eye, Ben Letts spoke viciously. "Tess air that cussed," said he, "that she keeps on saying fishes can feel when they gets cut. She air worse than that too."