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Wait!" commanded the Judge, as the crowd rocked towards Butts: "P'raps you'll tell us what kept you at home?" Butts shut his mouth angrily, but a glance at the faces nearest him made him think an answer prudent. "I was tired." The men, many of them ailing, who had nearly killed themselves to get to Idaho Bar, sneered openly. "I'd been jumpin' a claim up at Hunter." "So had Charlie.

"But there is nothing in all this that should make you think me basely born, nothing that should have persuaded you to put shame upon me!" He was taken aback for a minute by her words and attitude then he burst out angrily: "It's the old story, I see! Do a good action and it turns out a curse! Basely born! Of course you are basely born, if that's the way you put it!

"Now Melchior really rather liked the idea; but as his brother seemed to be in a submissive mood, he thought he would take the opportunity of giving him a good lecture, and would then graciously relent and forgive. This was too much; the boy went angrily back to his window corner, and Melchior like too many of us! lost the opportunity of making peace for the sake of wagging his own tongue.

"Oh, Miss Galland!" he exclaimed. "Miss Galland, you are beyond me!" "What a pose! How foolish to break out in that way!" she thought angrily, as she hastened up the rest of the flight and along the corridor. "To him of all men! A pattern-plate of an officer, who never has had anything but a military thought! But everything is pose! Everything is abnormal! And sleep? Sleep is a pose, too.

"There, now, don't go sinning like that; my cows have never been caught there before," shouted the pregnant woman. "Now that one has been caught, pay up or work it off." "All right, I'll work it off; only let me have the cow now, don't torture her with hunger," she cried, angrily. "As it is, I have no rest day or night.

The dons of Marmion, she said, were really frightened by the spread of drinking in college, all caused by the bad example of the Falloden set. She talked fast and angrily, and her cousin listened, half scornfully, but still attentively. "Why don't they keep him in order?" she said at last. "We did!"

"Now go on," said Abraham, when he had heard all that Waymark knew, "and explain the scrape she's got into." Waymark did so. "And you mean to tell me," Abraham said, before the story was quite finished, "that there's been nothing more between you than that?" "Absolutely nothing." "I don't believe you." It was said angrily, and with a blow of the clenched fist on the table.

'Hoo! he exclaimed more gently, 'an' if Silas be thy uncle thou'lt be come to live wi' him, and thou'rt she as come overnight eh? I made no answer, but I believe I looked both angrily and disdainfully. 'And what make ye alone here? and how was I to know't, an' Milly not wi' ye, nor no one?

'It's as good a phrase as another, said Steerforth. 'Thank you: whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution, are in greater danger than people not so circumstanced, supposing any serious cause of variance to arise between them, of being divided angrily and deeply? 'I should say yes, said Steerforth. 'Should you? she retorted. 'Dear me!

"I will confess now as much as I ever had to confess," retorted Dunwody angrily. "If you do not know yet of this lady, I will introduce you once more. She is the Countess St. Auban, formerly of Europe, and now of any place that suits her. It is no business of yours or of mine why she was once there, or cares to go there again; but she is going along with us out to Tallwoods."