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Barradine, sir, I thank you for what you've done for me and for the kind and open way you done it. So much he will expect, and the rest he will understand." He was equally determined to despatch a telegram giving the good news to Mrs. Petherick at North Ride Cottage, and he became almost huffy when Mavis again suggested that a letter would meet the case. "I don't understand you, Mav.
"A man don't want to be very knowing to find out that. One always feels a bit snappish first thing. You're going down to have a look at the skipper's brig." "Well, really ," began Brace. "Don't be huffy, squire. It's quite natural that you should." "And pray why, sir? I saw the vessel lying moored yonder yesterday."
As she studied it, her lovely black eyes grew perfectly enormous. I've never seen her so excited since " "What did she say?" Dundee interrupted tensely. "Why, she said nothing just at first, then she began to laugh in the queerest way almost hysterically. I asked her why she was laughing I was a little huffy, I'm afraid and she said the men looked so adorably conceited and funny.
You have evidently no notion how persons in a subordinate position ought to be treated. Bed, indeed!" "I think you might have waited till I got back before you parted with your hair." Jan's tone was decidedly huffy. "Now don't nag. That subject is closed. What about your hair. Do you know it is almost white?" "And what more suitable for a maiden aunt?
Wait a little while, and then you can ask him about his plans." "No, thankye, sir," said the man. "He's short and sharp, and maybe he wouldn't like it. You're easier to deal with. Don't be huffy. Two fellows meeting out here in a place like this ought to help one another." "I see," said Brace good-humouredly. "Now then, you want me to help you in something?" "To be sure. That's it exactly."
"Don't be angry with me, old chum. I'm sorry I laughed; but you and I have been shipmates too long together for us to fall out now. Why, what the devil has got over you, Stokes? You've never been so huffy since I first sailed with you, and I should have thought you one of the last in the world to take offence at a little bit of harmless chaff."
Insulted by this speech, and, above all, by the manner of the printseller, Thaddeus was snatching up the drawings to leave the shop without a word, when the man, observing his design, and afraid to lose them, laid his hand on the heap, exclaiming "Let me tell you, young man, it does not become a person in your situation to be so huffy to his employers.
His tone was strange; it was very strange. "Good!" exclaimed George, with a gaiety that was now forced, a bravado of gaiety. He thought: "The old chump evidently doesn't like me interfering. Silly old pompous ass!" Nevertheless his attitude towards the huffy landlord, if scornful, was good-humoured and indulgent. Then he noticed that Mr.
'I'm dreadfully scared of ladders since I broke my arm off this very one. It's so high, it makes me dizzy jest to think of. "'Well, then, I'll do the best I can; but I wish them boys was to Jericho! says the old lady, with a groan, for she was fat and hot, had her gown pinned up, and was in a fluster generally. She was goin' off rather huffy, when Kitty called out, "'Stop, ma!
Is our Mercury of the Post Office ever ready to fly nimbly from globe to globe, as great Jove may order him, while Neptune, unaccustomed to the waves, offers needful assistance to the Apollo of the India Board? How Juno sits apart, glum and huffy, uncared for, Council President though she be, great in name, but despised among gods that we can guess.
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