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The sing-song girl, her fiddle broken, was beating her forehead upon the floor and wailing: Ai, ai! Ai, ai! Spurlock or Taber, as he called himself sat slumped in a chair, staring with glazed eyes at nothing, absolutely uninterested in the confusion for which he was primarily accountable. The hotel manager was expostulating and Ah Cum was replying by a series of expressive shrugs.
Verezzi's face was still flushed with rage; and, as the first object of it was now removed from him, he appeared willing to transfer his resentment to Cavigni, who seemed to be expostulating, rather than disputing, with him.
It was evident, presently, that Stephen to the dawning triumph of his father listened with an increasingly troubled mind. And indeed, at the first whisper of the story, there had flashed through the young man's memory the vision of Meynell arguing and expostulating on that July afternoon, when he, Stephen, had spoken so confidingly, so unsuspectingly of his love for Hester.
On one point, however, Rebecca could not refrain from expostulating. "Look a-here, Phoebe," she said, in a scandalized voice, as she rose and faced her sister, "ain't you goin' to put on somethin' over your chest? That ain't decent the way you've got yerself fixed now!" "Nonsense!" cried Phoebe, with a mischievous twinkle in her eye. "Wouldst have me cover my breast like a married woman!
I remember how she made M. Guizot write in it; something quite stupid, after all. Those hobbies the garden and the album are quite harmless, aren't they? They hurt nobody, do they? Her voice dropped a little, with a pathetic expostulating intonation in it, as of one accustomed to be rebuked.
When she returned, the heads of all the other angry passengers were out of the windows expostulating with Jerry as to the cause of the delay. "Hurry up, miss," he said then. He popped her into a compartment, and she, as he called the train, moved slowly out of the station.
Stop!" he cried excitedly, for the launch was several yards out in the bay; and one could hear the Baroness, equally excited, expostulating with the man at the machine: "He! Ferma, ferma!" "It's all right," said Susanna, in that rather deep voice of hers, tranquil and leisurely; "my orders." And the launch, unperturbed, held its course towards the glow-worm lights of Isola Nobile.
He had no longer any idea of telling her of that disquieting visit. The touch of her hair blown against his cheek, as he had helped her on with her cloak, something in her voice, some slight diffidence, a queer, half expostulating look in the eyes that fell with a curious uneasiness before his, drove every thought of future danger out of his mind. He had at least the present!
Be that as it will, my mother has again given her hand in wedlock to Count Trebasi; by whom I have the mortification to be informed that I am totally excluded from my father's succession; and I learn from other quarters, that my sister is barbarously treated by this inhuman father-in-law. Grant, Heaven, I may soon have an opportunity of expostulating with the tyrant upon that subject."
Wherever she was going, I had an idea he was as surprised about it as I was, and that he had been expostulating with her about her expedition. But, if he had, he shut up as I appeared. I could only stammer as I stared at Paulette, "You you're not coming!" "I seem to be," she returned placidly.
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