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And then he came out here and looked over the mine again and told Stiff Neck George to stand guard. They're fixing to pump out the water." "Oho!" exclaimed Wiley, and his eyes began to kindle as he realized what Blount had done. Then reaching for the pistol that lay handy beside his leg, he leapt out with waspish quickness, only to stop short as he hurt his lame foot.
She quickly made him a hero, and invested the thin-shanked, narrow-chested, waspish attorney with a thousand tender attributes, and when, after one month's acquaintance, she found herself alone with him in the poky little parlor and he asking her to be his wife, her woman's heart overflowed, and telling him she had loved him from the first hour they met she threw herself into his arms, crying she was the happiest and most favored woman in the world.
Cruce was now mate; the waspish little third had become second; Louis Silva, the captain's favourite harpooner was third; and I was to be fourth. Not feeling at all sure of how the other harpooners would take my stepping over their heads, I respectfully demurred to the compliment offered me, stating my reasons.
The waspish old man shook himself clear of his wife, as he said with indecent asperity "No, no, she will but make a fool of herself." His wife drew herself up. "She never made a fool of herself, Don Picador, but once; and God forgive those who were the cause of it. It is not kind of you, it is not kind."
"I've never laid hand to you," said Martin gruffly, certain stinging words of Nellie's still smarting. When she chose, his sister's tongue could be waspish. She had tormented him with it all the way to her home.
His appearance answered to his name. He was a brisk, wiry, waspish little old gentleman, such a one as may now and then be seen stumping about our city in a broad-skirted coat with huge buttons, a cocked hat stuck on the back of his head, and a cane as high as his chin.
That good woman, by the way, was sorely disappointed in this new lodger, out of whom she could make no indirect profit; and she had a waspish tongue. John Douglas regarded her taunts almost amounting to open insult with a patient and mild curiosity. It was a little bit of psychological study, and more interesting than book-keeping by double entry.
Sartoris spoke in a waspish whisper: "So the land lies in that quarter," he said. "We have an informer amongst us. If I had known that before, my good Bentwood, if I had known that before!" Big as he was, Bentwood looked small and mean at that moment. "You are quite mistaken," he cried. "You are altogether wrong, my dear Carl. I am as much of a prisoner as any of you.
Two others followed in sharp succession, and there went close by Mary's ear the waspish whine of a minie-ball. At the same moment she recognized, once, twice, thrice, just at her back where the hoofs of her companion's horse were clattering, the tart rejoinders of his navy-six. "Go!" he cried again. "Lay low! lay low! cover the child!" But his words were needless.
He received us beneath the portico of the Theatre Royale, built after the model of the Odeon in Paris. Two waspish rapid-fire guns stood just within the shelter of the columns, with their black snouts pointing this way and that to command the sweep of the three-cornered Place du Theatre. A company of soldiers was quartered in the theater itself.
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