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I hope you have not been trying to put any such nonsensical ideas into his head." Miss Whimple did not answer. The gruffness of the old man hurt a little. He was quick to understand her silence, and after a while said gently, "I beg your pardon: I did not mean to be angry, I I the boy and his future are very dear to me you I " She laid a hand on his arm. "I know I know," she said.
Hennessey, do you mind showing us to our rooms so we may wash away some of the travel dust?" she asked icily, black eyes snapping. At this, Goat jumped to his feet, sincere contrition in his face wiping out all traces of his irritated gruffness. "I'm very sorry!" he exclaimed.
There was an atmosphere of irritation and hostility after the guests had gone. Rameyev reproached Piotr. "My dear Petya, you shouldn't have done that. It isn't hospitable. You were looking all the time at Trirodov as if you were getting ready to send him to all the devils." Piotr replied with a controlled gruffness: "Yes, precisely, to all the devils. You have guessed my feelings, uncle."
"What made you come here?" was all Jim said. "I heard that Miss Polly didn't ride to-day. I was afraid she might be ill." "What's that to you?" "She ISN'T ill?" Douglas demanded anxiously, oblivious to the gruffness in the big fellow's voice. "She's all right," Jim answered shortly as he shifted uneasily from one foot to the other, and avoided the pastor's burning gaze.
He reported by telephone to his employer, who seemed relieved to know that everything was so quiet and untroubled down at that end of his range. And once, quite inadvertently, he reported to Mary V; or was going to, when he recognized a feminine note in the masculine gruffness that spoke over the wire. And when she found he had discovered her: "Oh, Johnny!
"Won't you let us take him into our car where it is warmer and take care of him?" "That nuisance of a pup?" demanded the conductor, yet with twinkling eyes that belied his gruffness. "I know he's yapping his little head off." "Then let us have him, sir, do!" begged Nan earnestly. "Take him into the Pullman, you mean?" "Yes, sir, we'll take the best care of him," promised Nan.
Only to hand me the kay o' the prison, remove the sintry, an' then go quietly to yer bed wid five hundred pound in goold benathe yar hid to drame on." To add weight to his proposal he drew forth the bag of nuggets from one of his capacious coat pockets and held it up to view. "It's not enough," said Gashford, with a stern gruffness of tone and look which sank the petitioner's hopes below zero.
"Nay! you forget that it was as a traitor and a liar that you knew me last." "It was as a young fool that I knew you all the time," she retorted tartly, even though a kindly look and a kindly smile tempered the gruffness of her sally. "The male creature, my dear Mr. Clyffurde," she added, "was intended by God and by nature to be a selfish beast.
"Huh! Message! Why, he will be away only a couple of hours." The chief officer's tone was gruff, conveying the idea that women asked silly questions, but his gruffness did not hoodwink Elsie. He had prepared his replies beforehand. "Surely you will tell me, Mr. Boyle?" she pleaded wistfully. "Well, I happen to know there's a letter in the doctor's hands.
Bolivar, according to the story, reproved her by these words: "Madam, I had previously been informed of your character, and now I perceive it myself. Believe me, a servile spirit recommends itself to no one, and in a lady is highly to be despised." No doubt the reproof was well earned, but at the same time the language reveals a gruffness which scarcely tallies with Bolivar's usual conduct.
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