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Four times per annum the Cooneys were invited in a body to dine at the House of Heth, Mrs. Heth on these occasions speaking caustically of her consort's relatives, and on Christmas sending gifts of an almost offensively utilitarian nature. The noisy cousins filled the dingy little parlor to overflowing; this, though Mrs.
He dressed quickly, in what proved to be an exceedingly well-fitting suit; and finally turned tentatively to the man in the chair. The other stood up, and produced a heavy black silk scarf. "If you have no objections," he said curtly, "I'll tie this over your eyes." Again Jimmie Dale shrugged his shoulders. "I am glad enough to get out on any conditions," he answered caustically.
"D'ye think they'll be such fools as to let us do that, sir?" caustically demanded the gunner, chewing hard upon his quid, in his evident perplexity. "N-o," I returned dubiously; "I don't suppose they will if they can help it. But that is our only chance, all the same, and we must bend all our energies to accomplish it.
The War Office had most caustically intimated to the Reveille Company that it had no use and never under any conceivable circumstances could have any use whatever for the Reveille Company, and that the Reveille Company was a forward and tedious jackanapes, unworthy even of an articulate rebuff. The profits of 1915 would be doubled, if not trebled perhaps quadrupled.
"I might do it to the one or the other," returned Hunston, caustically; "but certainly not to both, the two are so opposed." This was just a dash too subtle for the sentry, and so Hunston passed on without further remark.
But not so rich as Winchell Smith, who has dealt exclusively with sweetness and light. Also those who laugh most caustically over the Hopwood estate usually find it convenient to ignore the fact that the greatest single contribution to it has been made by "The Bat," at which Dr. Straton might conceivably faint from excitement but at which he would have to work pretty hard to do any blushing.
Passing out of the hospital I paused to lean against the door, feeling downright ill and weak. Ca ran off to the barrack to fetch Dr. Ascher. A young medical man came out of the hospital, and seeing my wan and haggard face, came up to me. He was certainly sympathetic. "Heavens, man! You look downright ill!" was his comment. "I reckon I don't look worse than I feel!" I replied caustically.
He looked round and laughed at his own men, and again they all laughed as if he had said something clever, and he and Kipping exchanged glances. "They ain't found the gold," he caustically remarked to Kipping. "We'll see what we shall see." "Ay, we'll see," Kipping returned, mildly. "We'll see. It'll be fun to see it, too, won't it, sir?"
She was not gifted in that way, but she flared with resentment. "Do you think so?" she replied, caustically. Mrs. Simms, not all dissatisfied with the effect she had produced, passed on with a gay air, attended by a young artist who followed amorously in her train. Aileen saw from this and other things like it how little she was really "in."
His firm did not altogether approve this attitude of mind; they thought it queer, and would have smiled caustically had they known Otway's purpose of starting as a merchant on his own account. That, he had not yet announced, and would not do so until he had seen his Swiss friend at Odessa again. The evening of the dinner arrived, and again Piers was rapt above himself.
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