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Philip looked very angry, and fumed and fretted; but he made no reply, and on the following morning he departed to Bratham Abbey. "Ah, Philip, Philip!" said his father, under the mellow influence of his fourth glass of port, on the night of his arrival. "I know well enough what kept you up in town.
Many things might have happened in that interval. What more likely than that Sanghurst had found a wife, and that his old affection for Joan would by now be a thing of the past? The knight fumed a good deal as he thought of neglected opportunities.
Assumption he held to be a measure of the very devil, and fumed whenever he reflected upon his part in its accomplishment. "I was made to hold a candle!" he would explain apologetically. "He hoodwinked me, made a fool of me."
Such, he thought, would be the vengeance of a gentleman. Thus he fumed and raved and trifled, in an agony of selfish suffering a proud, injured man; and all the time the object of his vengeful indignation was lying insensible on the spot where she had prayed to him, her loving heart motionless within a bosom of ice.
Thus the gentry, fastened in the stocks, sat in a row, chattering their teeth in the cold and the rain, for the drizzle kept increasing. In vain Sprinkler fumed and struggled. Vainly the Judge interceded for the gentry, and vainly Telimena joined her entreaties to the tears of Zosia, that they should have more regard for the captives.
"Well, I feel queer about it," objected Dolores Heron. "The creature may be a hotel thief?" "Nonsense!" fumed the man. "The girl was a child sixteen or seventeen. We can't mix ourselves up in such an affair. Let's mind our own business." "You needn't be so cross. I haven't done anything," Dolores reproached him.
The Government soon had fifteen thousand men recruited at private cost. Help was offered so freely that the Whig, John Wilkes, actually introduced into Parliament a bill to prohibit gifts of money to the Crown since this voluntary taxation gave the Crown money without the consent of Parliament. The British patriot, gentle as he might be towards America, fumed against France.
"I've noticed," he said to nobody in particular, "that them hollering loudest for justice are most generally the ones that would hate to have it done to them." Dutch bristled like a turkey rooster. "What do you mean by that?" The Irishman smiled derisively. "I reckon you can guess if you try real hard." Dutch fumed, but did no guessing out loud. His reputation was a whitewashed one.
"Don't preach I won't listen to it!" fumed the bully. "You have got to pay that money. If you don't well, I don't believe you'll ever reach America alive, that's all." With these words Dan Baxter withdrew, followed by Captain Villaire. "You think za will pay?" queried the French brigand anxiously. "To be sure they will pay. They value their lives too much to refuse.
They fumed with exceeding wrath, and slopped over with pious indignation at the swindle put upon them. The inspired, however, escaped, and was afterwards captured in a cornfield. The funeral was unostentatious. .... We hear a great deal of sentiment with regard to the last solar eclipse. Considerable ink has been consumed in setting forth the terrible and awe-inspiring features of the scene.
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