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And I looked at him, and listened to him bluster, and thought maybe I'd have a bit to do wi' him as well. I'm a wee man and a', but I'm awfu' strong from the work I did in the pit, and I'm never afraid of a bully. I need ha' gie'n myself no concern as to the secretary. He smiled, and let the basso talk. And I'll swear he winked at me. "I really can't decide such a matter, Mr.
He had nodded pleasantly to the captain, who, in return, had frowned severely at him while the father of the boy was making the complaint; had winked good-naturedly at him the moment the accuser had left the room; had asked after Kitty and John, motioned to him to stay around until somebody put in an appearance to go bail, and had then busied himself with more important matters.
They were cheered, and their confidence was fully restored when they saw Dr. O'Grady was not in the least depressed. He smiled at Mary Ellen as he passed her and winked at Constable Moriarty. Mrs. Gregg, as soon as she caught sight of him, rushed to meet him. "Oh, Dr. O'Grady," she said, "isn't it terrible? What are we to do? I wouldn't mind so much only that Mrs. Ford is delighted.
The driver, arranging himself on the seat, looked down at Vickers, winked, and waited. Conry still dragged his wife by the arm, and as she tried to free herself he raised his other hand and slapped her across the face as he would cuff a struggling dog, then struck her again. She groaned and half sank to the pavement. The curious bystanders said nothing, made no move to interfere.
As Tuttle ended he saw a gleam in the other's eyes that caused him to add with emphasis, "And I 'm not goin' to call him up here, and don't you do it, either!" Nick got up, shook himself, and winked at the hole in the wall where had been the electric button.
So was Priscilla, who winked three times at her father when neither Frank nor her aunt was looking at her. Sir Lucius was uneasy. He feared that his nephew was likely to turn out a prig, a kind of boy which he held in particular abhorrence. When luncheon was over he said that he intended to take his rod and go up the river for the afternoon.
So long as it winked at them, so long their lives were safe. With its extermination they knew must come their own. Hitherto, save for the murmur of the two voices, a profound hush had weighed ominously in the heavy air. Now suddenly a cry went up, pitched on a high note and descending by semitones, like a dying wind, into a moan.
"Look here, Ferd," said the Cap'n, eagerly, forgetting for the moment the presence of Constable Nute, "those wimmen might gabble a little at you and make threats and things like that but but there isn't anything they can do, you understand!" He winked at Mr. Parrott. "You know what I told you!" But Mr. Parrott was in no way swayed or mollified. "They can't' do anything, can't they?" he squealed.
I can't withstand those apricot-trees. I thought there was moisture in the eyes she turned upon me, an unusual thing a most unusual thing in Dora Harris; but she winked it back, if it was there, too quickly for any certainty. 'You are a dear, she said. Once or twice before she had called me a dear. It reminded me, as nothing else ever did, that I was a contemporary of her father's.
Those continental people have something that we lack they're so Frenchy, so emotional, so full of fire! I've tried and I've tried and I just can't do it I just can't interpret those parts!" She stamped her foot and winked very fast and Denver forgot he was a stranger.
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