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"I'll SHOW you!" bellowed Penrod, recovering his breath; and he hurled a fat ball thoughtfully retained in hand throughout his agony to such effect that his interrogator disappeared backward from the fence without having taken any initiative of his own in the matter. His comrade impulsively joined him upon the ground, and the battle continued. Through the gathering dusk it went on.
Well, this was like asking him his view of ‘things in general.’ The poor youth stuck, and looked like a fool, though it was not he. The examiner, blind to his own absurdity, went on to ask him ‘what were the characteristics of English history.’ Another silence, and the poor fellow seemed to lookers-on to be done for, when his only fault was that he had better sense than his interrogator.
Aileen put down her work and looked across to her interrogator. "I was only smiling at my thoughts." "Will you be so good as to state what they are? They may prove decidedly interesting to me at this juncture," she added emphatically. Aileen's look of amusement changed swiftly to one of surprise. "To be honest, I was thinking that what she writes about Mr.
At the close of one of our joint debates, in the southern part of the district, he was greeted by a demure-looking individual with the salutation, "How are you, Judge?" "My dear sir," exclaimed the regular candidate, grasping the interrogator warmly by the hand, "how are you, and how is the old lady?"
The stranger regarded his interrogator a moment in wonder; and then, losing every mark of self-satisfaction in an expression of solemn humility, he answered: "Of offense, I hope there is none, to either party: of defense, I make none by God's good mercy, having committed no palpable sin since last entreating his pardoning grace.
She was one day asked by a well-meaning shopkeeper, of whom she had purchased a few goods, WHERE SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO?" "Tawny Rachel" turned her sad eyes upon her interrogator, and made answer: "Going to? why where do you think I'm going to, but to Heaven?
"I see," said Lilly's interrogator, with the air of seeing not at all. "Your case does not come under our kind of jurisdiction. Our girls are unfortunate mothers who are cared for here until such time as arrangements can be made to place the child.
"Maybe I have," replied the captain, regarding his interrogator through the smoke of his pipe, which he was in the act of lighting. "Goin' to the diggin's, I s'pose?" "Yes." "Bin there before?" "No." "Nor none o' your party, I expect?" "None, except one." "You'll be goin' up to the bar at the American Forks now, I calc'late?" "Don't know that I am." "Perhaps you'll try the northern diggin's?"
What is her name?" "Trant Miss Trant," returned Mrs. Dodd, knowing who her interrogator meant. "Leastways we always called her miss, for she is quite the lady." Katherine hurried back, and found Miss Trant lying back in her chair greatly exhausted. With instinctive tact Katherine assumed an air of authority, and insisted on her patient eating some biscuits soaked in wine.
There was something in the assured tone of these few words that either overawed or repressed every rising feeling of the waiter, for his interrogator; for, silently handing his coffee and the newspaper, he left the room; not, however, without bestowing a parting glance so full of terror and dismay that our friend was obliged to smile at it.
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