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"Then you had better take all the better care of her, Mr Elsworthy," she said, with again a little asperity. The fact was, that Miss Dora had behaved very injudiciously, and was partly aware of it; and then this prettiness of little Rosa's, even though it shone at the present moment before her, was not so plain to her old-maidenly eyes.
She repeated her question crisply, without visible effect; then summoned him by name with increasing asperity. Twice she called him, while all his fellow pupils turned to stare at the gazing boy. She advanced a step from the platform. "Penrod Schofield!" "Oh, my goodness!" he shouted suddenly. "Can't you keep still a MINUTE?" Miss Spence gasped. So did the pupils.
"Madeline Bassett has gone to stay with these people in the country, and I want to know what he thinks I ought to do." "Well, as I say, Jeeves is off the case." "But, Bertie, dash it " "Jeeves," I said with a certain asperity, "is no longer on the case. I am now in sole charge." "But what on earth can you do?" I curbed my resentment. We Woosters are fair-minded.
She considered herself as having acquired much credit by the manner in which the latter insurrectionary movements had been suppressed, so soon as Philip, after his endless tergiversations, had supplied her with arms and money. Therefore she wrote in a tone of great asperity to her brother, expressing her discontent.
He informed me that, he had procured my name to be entered on the books of the guard-ship at Spithead; but that I might gain time to loiter by the side of Eugenia, I begged his permission to join my ship without returning home, alleging, as a reason, that delay would soften down any asperity of feeling occasioned by the late fracas.
"I can't say that I have," answered the interpreter, with a matter-of-fact frown at the ground, "but I have noticed that the pit-saw they was usin' yesterday has been allowed to saw into the holdin'-irons and damaged half o' " "Hoots, man! never mind the pit-saw!" exclaimed MacSweenie, with a touch of asperity.
"I know, I know, I know," said Mr. White, with remarkable asperity in one so placid. "No, I do not charge her. I am sorry you have been inconvenienced" he turned to the girl in his most majestic manner "and I trust that you bear no ill-will." He offered a large and flabby hand, but Oliva ignored it. "Mind you don't trip over the mat as you go out," she said, "the passage is rather dark." Mr.
There is nothing I would not do, nothing I would not sacrifice, that is " and he made a mental reservation concerning Valmai. "That is nothing except what I am about to ask you, I suppose?" said the old man. The words were not amiable. They might have angered another man; but Cardo detected a tremor in the voice and an anxious look in the eyes which softened their asperity.
Thomson listened in silence and without interruption. He met the well-satisfied peroration of his visitor without comment. "I am hoping to hear," the latter concluded, with some slight asperity in his manner, "that the circumstance to which I have alluded was accidental and will not be repeated." Major Thomson glanced thoughtfully at a little pile of documents by his side.
"How long is this to last?" asked the inspector finally. "And what is it we are watching for?" "I have no more notion than you how long it is to last," Holmes answered with some asperity. "If criminals would always schedule their movements like railway trains, it would certainly be more convenient for all of us. As to what it is we Well, THAT'S what we are watching for!"
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