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Them folks be always huffy about their own importance, though they never think of other people's feelin's." We were interrupted by the sound of wheels, and looking round, we perceived that the carriage of my grandmother had driven up to the farm-house door, on its return home.
It's no use," he said, bitterly; "they are all like me, or they know me." "And hasn't your wife some relations who are in business?" "The last people I should apply to. No. I'm going to look around. Major, do you happen to know a cheap lodging-house that is respectable?" "I don't know any that is not respectable," the Major replied, in a huffy manner. "I beg your pardon," said Jack.
Josiah came in pretty soon, and when I told him about it he acted real huffy and agreed with Jane Olive, and resented the idee of a Home for Fallen Men. Blandina, who come while we wuz talkin' about it to borry a few needlefuls of white thread, she shed tears and said she wouldn't mortify men by namin' a home like that for thousands of worlds like this.
Making his life a business of compensating somebody for something, and never, until these later years, even seeing the visible path his own feet should have taken. He forgot Amelia and showed himself so absent that she got huffy and fell into silence and only when he left the room did she remind him: "Don't forget the journal. You'd better run up and look for it now."
I'm pretty near eighteen, and I haven't thought of being married; at least to anybody in particular." "You couldn't," Blair said coldly; "you haven't got the cash." David chewed this bitter fact in silence; then he said, "I thought you and Elizabeth were kind of off at dinner. You didn't talk to each other at all. I thought you were both huffy; and instead of that " David paused.
And say, young man, that reminds me; I hear all kinds of reports about your getting to be one yourself. Now I knew your father, Daniel J. Bines, and I liked him, and I like you; and I hope you won't get huffy, but from what they tell me you ain't doing yourself a bit of good." "Don't believe all you hear," laughed Percival.
"Who do you mean by 'everybody'? How many other ladies have you been consoling?" "Look here now, I won't have this hinting!" Humbly: "I know, dear. I was only teasing. I know it didn't mean to talk huffy it was just tired. Forgive bad Tanis. But say you love me, say it!" "I love you.... Course I do." "Yes, you do!" cynically. "Oh, darling, I don't mean to be rude but I get so lonely.
His natural temper was to be surly, huffy, and rugged, and worse; and he so gave way to his temper, as to this, that it brought him to be furious and outrageous in all things, especially against goodness itself, and against other things too, when he was displeased. And, truly, if it be a sign of a fool to have anger rest in his bosom, then was Mr.
I want to tell you right here, too, that I am not going to humor that absurd person any more." "Isn't he just as wise as he was when you lured him away from the hotel where I'd put him?" asks Old Hickory sarcastic. "I supposed you had a little sense then yourself, Matthew Ellins," Auntie raps back at him. "You flatter me," says Old Hickory, bowin' stiff and marchin' off huffy.
Jex and Fluke have returned to their iniquitous allegiance, with six or eight others of lesser calibre, and it is reported and believed that Tubbs and Huffy are ready to go back. It is feared that the University swindle is stronger to-day than it has ever been before." Later-midnight: "It is said that the committee will report the bill back to-morrow.
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