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Then suddenly irritated beyond all control by her silly little set face, he would blurt out a sudden, 'Oh, very well, then! and before she was aware of it, the door would have banged.

"Well, Miss Lottie," he said, as they ascended the stairs, "I admit that humanity everywhere often has its ridiculous side, but I have been laughed at too much myself to enjoy laughing at others." "And why should you be laughed at so much?" "I suppose it is the fate of overgrown, awkward boys, who have a tendency to blurt out the truth on all occasions."

"Rather, I am a more unmitigated fool than even I suspected, since when affairs were in a promising train I have elected to blurt out, of all things, the naked and distasteful truth. Proclaim it now; and see the late Vicomte de Puysange lugged out of this hall and after appropriate torture hanged within the month." And with that Perion laughed. Thereafter he was silent.

When it was poured out into huge cups, which might have been styled small slop-basins, and sweetened and passed round, Robin applied his knuckles to the table to command silence. "Friends," said he, "I niver wos much o' a speechifier, but I could always manage to blurt out my meanin' somehow.

Nurse Yorke must not blurt out the tidings in her common way! But how to stop her without arousing St. George's curiosity? "Oh, I suppose you've got hold of the advertisement of that sale I told you of," he said, glaring over the top of Max's head. "Why! I've found " the nurse began briskly, but withered under Doctor Taylor's forbidding gaze.

Miss Gentle looked at Mr Blurt quite as earnestly, and replied that she had no objection whatever to that. "Still further, Miss Gentle: if I were to presume to ask you to regard me in the light of a husband, would you object to that?" Miss Gentle looked down and said nothing, from which Mr Blurt concluded that she did not object. She withdrew her hand suddenly, however, and blushed.

She was quite willing, and set about it at once, while Mr Blurt nodded good-night, and went away. With very uncomfortable feelings George Aspel stood in the shop, his tall figure drawn up, his arms crossed on his broad breast, and his finely formed head bent slightly down as he sternly watched the operation. Mrs Murridge was a resolute woman.

You must not meet Paw; you'll blurt out everything to him; I know you! I'll tell him you could not stay to luncheon. Quick, now; go. What? Well there!" Whatever it represented, the exclamation was apparently so protracted that Miss Kitty was obliged to push her lover to the front landing before she could disappear by the back stairs. But once in the street, Barker no longer lingered.

"There are so many common things to jest about. Is it not better to use them as the butt of our wit, instead of matters beyond our comprehension?" "Yes, I suppose so, Helen," said Emma. "But, you know I never consider. I blurt out just what I wish to say." The half-hour bell sounded and the girls went to their rooms to make ready to appear at the dining-table.

I always intended to keep a diary when I left school and things began to happen, and I suppose I must have said so some day; I generally do blurt out what is in my mind, and Lena heard and remembered. She's not a bad girl, except for her temper, but I've noticed the hasty ones are generally the most generous.