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Felice sera." And so the old lawyer went off to call upon his client, the Marchese Lamberto, truly dreading the interview, and yet not without a certain degree of satisfaction, and a kind of I-told-you-so feeling in the prospect of announcing to the unhappy Marchese those terrible first-fruits of the disastrous purpose, in condemnation of which the lawyer had spoken so strongly a few hours ago.
Fletcher did not look as though he found the "Balm of I-told-you-so" very consoling. Tonsor continued, "Now, if I were in your place, I would go and make a clean breast of it to Danforth. It was wrong, though I know you didn't mean any harm. He may be angry, but he won't touch you. You can't raise ten thousand dollars in these times, not to save your soul."
"Wouldn't it have been better to have taken my advice and that of Hsu Ching-cheng and Yuan Chang instead of having put them to death for endeavouring in their earnestness to save the country? What about your old conservative friends? Can they be depended upon as pillars of state?" Or some other "I-told-you-so" language of this kind.
"Summer showers, soft, warm, and refreshing," Beth snapped, irritated by the I-told-you-so tone of superiority, which, when her mother assumed it, always broke down her best resolutions, and threw her into a state of opposition. "Mildred the Satisfactory has the right thing ready for all occasions." The result of this encounter was an elaborate pose.
Behind him, tall and disapproving, with an I-told-you-so in her eye, stood Aunt Maria. "Headstrong girl," she murmured severely. "You have given us all two terrible days!" and she pecked Hazel's cheek stiffly. But no one heard her in the excitement.
Before the autumn was fairly over they had begun to sing their famous refrain, 'Spring Soon, and kept it up with good heart more or less all through the winter's direst storms, till at length the waning of the Hungry Moon, our February, seemed really to lend some point to the ditty, and they redoubled their optimistic announcement to the world in an 'I-told-you-so' mood.
when Struthers carried in to me, with a sort of triumphant and tight-lipped I-told-you-so air, a copy of the morning's Los Angeles Examiner.
I heard her talking to Aunt Hattie one day about it, and she said: "To think such a thing could happen to me! And when for a minute I was really hesitating and thinking that maybe I would take him. Oh, Hattie!" And Aunt Hattie put her lips together with her most I-told-you-so air, and said: "It was, indeed, a narrow escape, Madge; and it ought to show you the worth of a real man. There's Mr.
"I told you so; what has happened?" "Nothing. Only I have reconsidered the matter, and I see I was wrong to let it upset me." "I saw that from the first." "Some persons," said Lynde gayly, "always see everything from the first. You belong to the I-told-you-so family, only you belong to the cheerful branch." "Thank the Lord for that!
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