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Scott flushed angrily but shrugged his shoulders. Charleton went on, "Of course, Charleton, Jr. won't be able to ride for a month or so but Jimmy Day will help me out in the meantime." "Son smoke yet?" asked Peter. "No; I have to spend so much time doing jury duty on my neighbors, I haven't got round to teaching him. He weighs a big ten pounds, the little devil."

We are blockaded here, but we have provisions and money. Let us then wait patiently to see what the Directory will do for us." "The Directory!" exclaimed he angrily, "the Directory is composed of a set of scoundrels! they envy and hate me, and would gladly let me perish here. Besides, you see how dissatisfied the whole army is: not a man is willing to stay."

"Why, that Loughead chap," said Pickering, bringing his hand down heavily on the table; "he has more sweet words from Polly Pepper in a week than I get in a month and I such an old friend!" "Polly is so anxious to help his sister," Jasper made out to say. "Well, that's no reason why the fellow should hang around forever," declared Pickering angrily.

I only was affected differently, as my gaze fell upon this touching evidence of dear Valeria's love for me, and I glanced at her tenderly. "This has a deeper significance than you think for," said the colonel, looking round angrily. "Croppo's wife does not carefully secrete a drawing like that on her person for nothing. See, it is done by no common artist.

"I did so because I reserved him for my own hand," said Wyat. "You hear him confess his treason," cried Henry; "down on your knees, villain, or I will strike you to my feet." "He has just saved your life, my liege," cried the supplicant. "Oh, spare him!" "What make you here, Mabel?" cried Henry angrily.

"Was Juan Valdez a member of the party that took the rifles from Lieutenant Chaves and his escort?" Bucky laughed out his contempt. "Speak, sir," broke in Chaves. "Answer the governor, you dog." "If I speak, it will be to tell you what a cur I think you." Chaves flushed angrily and laid a hand on his revolver. "Who are you that play dice with death, like a fool?"

After dark things were fairly quiet, except for constant alarms, until the order came to move back to the next trench." Major Kemp's fist came down upon the plank table. "Move back!" he exclaimed angrily. "Just so!

He marched rapidly down the road, his stick over his shoulder, fuming and muttering to himself in his anger, till he got near his front gate, when suddenly there popped up from behind the palings a long yellow ferret with a gun. 'Who comes there? said the ferret sharply. 'Stuff and nonsense! said Toad, very angrily. 'What do you mean by talking like that to me?

Each time he peeped in a nest and saw one of those china eggs, he hoped it was a real egg, and each time when he found it wasn't he grew angrier. At last he so lost his temper that when he found another of those eggs he angrily kicked it out of the nest. Now it happened that Jimmy Skunk was just underneath. Down fell that hard china egg squarely on Jimmy Skunk's head.

Be off with you, said he angrily. A little further down the road the hare was resting in a ditch, but when she saw the bear, she came out and spoke to him, and inquired why he looked so sad. The bear told her of the loss of his wife, and of his search after a mourner that could lament over her in the proper style.