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Otherwise I should insist on speaking to Mr. Raffles alone." "Bunny and I are one," said Raffles airily. "Though two to one numerically speaking," remarked Levy, with a disparaging eye on me. "However, if you're both in the job, so much the more chance of bringing it off, I daresay. But you'll never 'ave to 'andle a lighter swag, gentlemen!"
These descendants of the sect of Zoroaster the most thrifty, civilized, intelligent and austere of the East Indians, among whom are counted the richest native merchants of Bombay were celebrating a sort of religious carnival, with processions and shows, in the midst of which Indian dancing-girls, clothed in rose-colored gauze, looped up with gold and silver, danced airily, but with perfect modesty, to the sound of viols and the clanging of tambourines.
Cheon had sent the eggs out with the cabbage, and I had hidden them away, intending to spring a surprise on the men-folk at breakfast. "How many eggs shall I boil for you, Dan?" I said airily, springing my surprise in this way on all the camp. But Dan, wheeling with an exclamation of pleasure, sprung a surprise of his own on the missus. "Eggs!" he said. "Good enough! How many?
"Don't you roar at your officer," said the mate sternly. "Your manners is worse than your cooking. You'd better stay with us a few trips to improve 'em." The "Bruiser" turned purple, and shivered with impotent wrath. "We get a parcel o' pot-house loafers aboard here," continued the mate, airily addressing the atmosphere, "and, blank my eyes! if they don't think they're here to be waited on.
Le Rozier is an attractive little place, and its one inn stands airily in the village street; on the other side of the way, a little lower down, is its rival, the Hotel Dieudonne, which, although within a stone's throw, is in another village and another department.
Then, a little queerly, she laughed. "Oh, no, nothing at all in particular," she retorted airily. The next moment, with one of her unexpected changes of manner, she darted across the room, picked up a palette, and a handful of brushes from the long box near it. Advancing toward her husband she held them out dramatically.
"How big will it be?" said Mr. Dimmidge. The editor took up a copy of the "Clarion" and indicated about an inch of space. Mr. Dimmidge's face fell. "I want it bigger, in large letters, like a play-card," he said. "That's no good for a warning." "You can have half a column or a whole column if you like," said the editor airily. "I'll take a whole one," said Mr. Dimmidge simply. The editor laughed.
"Well, have you seen the mucker Prescott?" called Bert airily. "Was he scared to " Here Bert caught sight of the two West Pointers and stopped short, while his father entered behind him. "No," broke in Holmes, dryly, "Prescott wasn't even scared silly." "Oh, you shut up, you two!" growled Bert. "Mr. Griffin, what are these pieces of airy nothing doing here?"
He stuck out his head and gazed insolently into the man's face and then drew out his wad of bills. They were badly sweated, but the numbers were there he peeled off seven bills and waved them airily, then laughed and shoved them into his overalls. "Tuh hell with you!" he burst out defiantly, consigning all Blackwater to perdition with one grand, oratorical flourish.
But because the Labour party is the only one that puts Women's Suffrage in the forefront of its programme. Stonor took his elbow off the mantel. 'Whatever the reason, he said airily, 'the result is momentarily inconvenient. Though I am one of those who think it would be easy to overestimate the importance He broke off with an effect of dismissing both the matter and the man.
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