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She was quite satisfied, and the "I-told-you-so" spirit was so jubilant within her, that she could hardly keep from flaunting it before Bea's distressed face. She satisfied herself, however, with looking at each dusty article with great care, brushing some imaginary specks from her dress, settling her bonnet, and asking abruptly: "How's your mother? I haven't long to stay."
Gray brought the news to the Appleton bungalow while Dan and his sister were still at breakfast. "Happy Tom" came puffing and blowing at his heels with a highly satisfied I-told-you-so expression on his round features. "He made it! The tide has turned," cried the doctor as he burst in waving the message on high. "Yes!" he explained, in answer to their excited questions.
I am going to bore you, annoy you; for I am to see you every day for the next week. Can you bear it? I shall be worse than the balm of 'I-told-you-so." Monroe pressed his friend's hand. "Come, by all means. And now we are near my house; go in and take tea with us." "No, not to-day. It is dies nefastus. Good-bye!" Twirling his grizzly moustaches and humming to himself, Easelmann turned back.
In that decorous mansion I could not follow her; and my impulse to dash after her and knock at her door till she answered me, I was forced to put aside after a moment's consideration. I stood there in the quiet hall, the old clock ticking away a solemn "I-told-you-so!" in the corner.
Weak though she was, she drew away and flashed a glance at him, resenting his man's "I-told-you-so" manner. The last I saw of them in the confusion was as they drove off in the car, still unreconciled. Kennedy seemed well contented, for the present at least, to allow the police a free hand with Errol and Karatoff. As for me, Mrs.
There is no escape from our unhappy fate!" "Dorothy, Miss Cynthia is here, and I want you to see that she gets safely home," said her mother. "Yes, mother," answered Dorothy again, looking at Ruth with an I-told-you-so expression. "Don't you dare to leave me, Ruth Shirley," she went on fiercely. "You'll have plenty of time to go with me. Come on in now and be introduced to her."
Isabella cast an "I-told-you-so" look at her sister and glanced expectantly at the maid. "What is it, Delia?" "I'm thinkin', Miss Marne, you'd better be lookin' for a new girl." "Why, what's the matter? You don't want to leave us, do you?" "No, miss, I don't want to, an' that's the truth. But I don't think I'll be stayin' any longer than you can get another girl." "What's the trouble, Delia?"
Drillford, discovered alone in his office, smiled as the two men walked in there was an irritating I-told-you-so air about him. "Ah!" he said. "I see you gentlemen have been reading the afternoon papers! What do you think about your friend now, Mr. Viner?" "Precisely what I thought before and shall continue to think," retorted Viner. "I've seen no reason to alter my opinion." "Oh but I guess Mr.
Some gave way, some stood firm. The lobbyists and the opposition went about with confident, "I-told-you-so" smiles writ large on their faces. Within a few days it became apparent that the reform bill would be defeated in the senate. Its fate had been so long tied up with the people's belief in Jeff that with his collapse the general opinion condemned it to defeat.
Patricia implored. "Nell, what does your mother do when your brothers cry like this?" "They don't cry like this," Nell answered, trying desperately to quiet Lydia. "Mebbe next time, Miss P'tricia," Sarah's tone was strictly of the "I-told-you-so" order, "yo' won't go 'vitin' a whole tribe o' young uns, widout resultin' any one."
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