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Glengarry went away raging like a madman. Since his complaints were disregarded by those who ought to right him, he would right himself: he would draw out his men, and fall sword in hand on the murderers of his cousin. During some time he would listen to no expostulation.
MacTaggart!" cried the Duke in a comical expostulation. "And partly to this unfortunate friend of mine, who must fancy us a singularly garrulous race this side of the German Ocean. May I introduce M. Montaiglon, who is at the inn below, and whom it has been my good fortune to meet for the first time to-night?"
I didn't know things were so bad as this! Vannicock's arm dropped from her waist, where it had been resting as they walked. 'Will you leave? she asked. 'I will if you say I must. But I'd rather help too. There was no expostulation in his tone. Laura had gone forward. 'Jack, she said, 'I am come to help! The weary curate turned and held up the lantern.
"Ye'r a fool to stay," was the expostulation of an outside friend, calling one day to see and condole with and exasperate the aforesaid nurse. "When ther's places yer might have three an' a half a week, an' a nurse for the baby separate, an' not a stitch to wash, not even yer own things! If they was any account at all, they'd keep a laundress!"
There sat a hopeless-looking little man at the clumsy oars of a flat-bottomed boat. "The little one's feet are out," said the man. "So much the better! For what was another sent us?" cried Mini's mother. "But the little one must be baptized," said the father, with mild expostulation. "Give him to me, then," and the man took off his own ragged coat.
"Monday night he was sent with the reconnoitering party to Casa-de-Mata. "Tuesday he was sent with the officer that carried our General's expostulation to Santa Anna. At night he was put on guard. "Wednesday he was sent with another party to protect a band of emigrants crossing the marshes. At night he was sent with still another party to reconnoiter Molina-del-Rey.
As they looked to me for the vindication of their rights, and, indeed, had only been kept from open outbreak by my assurance that they should be paid, I addressed a letter of expostulation to the Supreme Director, recounting their services and the ill-merited harshness to which they were exposed at the hands of his Ministers, notwithstanding that since their return they had aided the Government in the construction of wharves and other conveniences necessary for the embarkation of troops and stores to Peru a military expedition to that country being now decided on.
"But it is not fair for one to do all the playing; besides, I want you to dance with me so consider yourself invited in due form to be my next partner." Maddy's face crimsoned for an instant, and then in a low voice she said, "I thank you, but I must decline." "Maddy!" Guy exclaimed, in tones more indicative of reproach than expostulation.
He fails to see that all such appeals are beside the question; and deserts the ground of his answer to John Sterling's expostulation, "that is downright Pantheism": "What if it were Pot-theism if it is true?"
Ah, from that vision of him saying, "I know," and sighing, and from the mute appeal that then was in his eyes, from that strike on! Most retentive to her, as it had passed, of Huggo's share in all that episode had been that she from her expostulation with Huggo had not come away with the same satisfaction as seemingly had Harry.
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