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To this, however, Terry paid no heed. Broderick, who had been out of town, campaigning, met Ike Bluxome on Montgomery street. "I thought you folks were going to disband," he spoke half-banteringly. And Bluxome answered with, his usual gravity. "We thought so, too ... but Terry jumped into the picture. Now he's boasting that the Committee didn't dare to hold him longer." Bluxome smiled faintly.
"The last time I went to jail," she related, "I had chained myself to the gallery in the House of Commons, and, when they tried to release me, I bit a policeman hard!" "Oh, you man-eater!" It was Cicily who uttered the exclamation, half-reproachfully, half-banteringly. "I fail to see why, if one should prefer even Chicago roast beef to an Irish policeman, that should be held against one."
Of a sudden, the forger cried out raucously: "Say, Inspector, if you've got anything on me, I I would " The cry dropped into unintelligible mumblings. Burke retained his manner of serene indifference to the other's agitation. Still, his pen hurried over the paper; and he did not trouble to look up as he expostulated, half-banteringly. "Now, now! What's the matter with you, Joe?
Why, you see, Judy's got a devil of a head ache quite knocked out with it, poor thing she asked me to explain make it all right, you know Do come up to the fire, though; you look dead-beat, really. Now do let me make you comfortable, there's a good girl." He had taken her hand, half-banteringly, and was drawing her toward a low seat by the hearth; but she stopped and freed herself quietly.
"I'll have to see about that!" he rejoined, half-banteringly, half-threateningly. "There is something else to come, even more irritating," she said, less intently and smiling. "So please be prepared to hold your temper." "I shall not beat my fist on the table defending war as you did defending peace!" he retaliated with significant enjoyment. But she used his retort for an opening.
"Yes," she replied frankly, in answer to my remarks on the subject, "I do feel gay this morning. I feel as if a load had been removed from my shoulders." "Surely you can have no troubles," I remarked, half-banteringly. A shadow alighted for a moment upon her face and was gone again. "Nothing which ought to be a trouble. Nothing tangible and yet Oh, Mr.
"Is not his love for his sister beautiful?" McLean admitted that it was, but half-banteringly he said to Elspeth: "What could you do in lodgings, you excited mite?" "I can sit and look at Tommy," she answered, quickly. "But he will be away for hours at his classes." "I'll sit at the window waiting for him," said she. "And I'll run back quick," said Tommy.
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