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"Yes, just precisely you," I continued. "You persist, in a rude and boorish manner, in interrupting my conversation with the other guests in this hostelry." And Warden Atherton came. The door was unlocked, and he blustered into my cell. But oh, I was so safe! He had done his worst. I was beyond his power. "I'll shut off your grub," he threatened. "As you please," I answered. "I'm used to it.
Morgan himself almost trembled with emotion, for he knew how eagerly some of them had sought the engagement. Three weeks of rehearsal and a week of acting under most trying and disheartening circumstances, and then to receive nothing! And all that time they had submitted to be bullied and blustered at. If the whole affair had not been so piteous it would have seemed grotesque.
The March winds blustered over Boston, and the cold salt smell of the ocean was borne tempestuously in upon the shivering city. Chill and keen out of the northeast came the air that hinted not at all of spring, but urgently of winter.
"Stand by there, Mary Ellen, or Halcyon, as your name used to be," was the sharp order. "I'm going to send a boat aboard you. We want that man!" and once more he pointed accusingly at Jack. "I don't know what you're talking about," blustered Captain Brisco. "That man is my second mate, and you can't take him from me that way. This isn't war time," and he seemed disposed to protect Jack.
The proprietor was a calm, cold man. He viewed Hawkins with an inscrutable stare for some time before he spoke. "I hardly know, Mr. Hawkins," he said at last, "whom to blame for this." "Well, I know! That hulking lummox who knocked over my " "At any rate, the machine was yours, I fear you will have to pay for the damage." "I will, eh?" blustered Hawkins.
She gave me a shrewd glance. “He not Jesus,” she blustered; “he not know about the wet and the dry.” I did not answer her; what was the use? As I sat waiting for the hour when Ambrosch and Ántonia would return from the fields, I watched Mrs. Shimerda at her work. She took from the oven a coffee-cake which she wanted to keep warm for supper, and wrapped it in a quilt stuffed with feathers.
He robbed, he roared, he blustered with praiseworthy industry; and good luck coming to the aid of caution, he escaped for a while the necessary punishment of his crimes. It was on Stockbridge Downs that he met his first check. He had stopped a chariot, and came off with a hatful of gold, but the victims, impatient of disaster, raised the county, and Gentleman Harry was laid by the heels.
"And how was you proposing for me to stale it?" inquired Freckles. "Or am I just to find it laying in me path beside the line?" "That's it, Freckles," blustered the Dutchman, "you're just to find it. You needn't do a thing. You needn't know a thing. You name a morning when you will walk up the west side of the swamp and then turn round and walk back down the same side again and the money is yours.
You were quite right in what you said just now; Beatrice was more like her mother, and her mother was a good woman." "Really!" Elizabeth remarked, insolently. "Don't answer like that," he blustered, striking the table. "She was your mother, too." The woman's face was inscrutable, hard, and flawless behind the little cloud of tobacco smoke. The man began to tremble once more.
"Don't you know you should not have killed those men?" demanded Lorry. They surveyed him in amazement, except Anguish, who had buried his face in his hands dejectedly. "And, sir, I'd like to know why not?" blustered Dangloss.
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