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A half humorous, half impatient expression on Sedgwick's face, was the only indication he gave that he had recognized the other's huffy and bristling manner. "Your opinion, Sir," he replied, with undiminished affability, "tends to relieve my apprehensions. I trust the event will justify it.
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.
This was bringing the matter right home to the visitors, every one of whom was a slaveholder, and would have taken it as an insult if any one had so much as hinted that their evidence was not as good as a black man's. "Don't get huffy," said the smart man before alluded to. "We haven't played our best card yet.
He felt that, in a measure, his good name lay in their hands, but he could not bend that proud spirit humbled and chastened though it then was to treat them in the slightest degree as his equals, or to accept, unrequited, any favor from such a source. "Don't be huffy, boy," said Clinton, again; "and don't insult me by offering pay for what I've done!
I turned a huffy back on Van Blarcom and went to stand in line before a door which harbored, I was told, a special commission for the examination of passports and the admission of travelers into France.
Of course I wouldn't suggest that you go counter to your sister's wishes, but" he turned away from her, huffy, head high, a gentleman flouted in his pride "it's rather absurd from my point of view. Oh, well, we'll say no more about it." Chrystie was distracted. It was not only the humiliation of appearing out of date and provincial; it was something much worse than that.
But if you ain't a-goin' to tell me about the runaway I'll just leave my eggs and step over and see Miss Puss Jenkins. Miss Puss will talk to anybody, anywhere, day or night. All you got to do is to ask your first question and take your seat. If 'n you ain't got nothin' to say " "How can I say it if you don't let a word get in noway, nohow?" Mr. Blick was huffy.
McNeil till a few days ago, for I was huffy at Hugh and would not be friendly with his wife; but when I did call I got such a surprise that for a few minutes I stood still in astonishment, for, if you will believe me, Dexie, they have got the house fixed up just as it used to look when you lived there the same pattern of carpets and curtains, the pictures on the wall seem to be the very same, even to 'George Washington' that you used to make fun of.
"We'll do nothing of the sort!" exclaimed Larry. "I don't want anything to do with you." He had never forgiven Peter for his part in the kidnapping of Jimmie. "Needn't get huffy about it," remarked Peter. "I want to be friendly." Larry thought it was hardly Peter's place to offer to be "friendly" after the mean part he had played. "I haven't time to stop now," said Larry. "I'm in a hurry.
If you'll tell me what 'tis I'll call you by it." "Do' want none o' yer callin'! Carrots's good 'nough for me, an' if I'm suited, other folks needn't ter interfere," growled the boy, with renewed suspicion. "No need to get huffy 'bout it," rejoined Theodore. "It put me up a peg when folks begun to call me Theodore 'stead of Tode or Toady, an' so I thought you'd feel the same way.
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