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Updated: June 24, 2025
But no comfort for anyone could be got by rushing out into the street at this early hour; and so, following the advice of Fyne not to act nastily, they both sat down at the window and stared feelingly at the great house, awful to their eyes in its stolid, prosperous, expensive respectability with ruin absolutely standing at the door."
McDonald said, as the cigarette steamed, "the son of poor but honest parents. All my life I have been obliged to labor. You may say that my English is surprisingly pure, under such conditions. As a matter of fact, I educated myself at night, using a lantern in the top of my father's stable." "I thought you said he was poor," Hutchins put in nastily. "How did he have a stable?"
"We must only talk about nice things," she said. "Well, I shouldn't care to talk nastily about people as Lady Benyon does sometimes," Beth rejoined. "But, my dear child, that is not a nice thing to say about Lady Benyon." "Isn't it?" said Beth, then added: "Oh dear, how funny things are!" meaning how complicated. "Where did you get this tea, Beth?" said Aunt Victoria.
Charlie Sands was sitting by the lamp in his overcoat. He had put our railway and steamer tickets on the table, and was holding his cigarette so that Aggie could inhale the fumes, she having hay fever and her cubebs being on their way to Panama. "I suppose you know," he said nastily, "that your train has gone and that you cannot get the boat tomorrow?"
But he forgot that the other's lithe body moving with the calm, undulating grace of a panther preparing to spring was all clean youth, muscle and courage, unbroken by any debauchery! "That's a hell of a thing for a man to pack," the giant bully cried nastily, "and it's a hell of a lady that gives it to a man to pack!"
"Oblige me by placing chairs for the two gentlemen, if you please; and would you be so kind as to close the door as you pass out so that we may not be interrupted, you know?" "Yes, miss, cert'nly," stammered the bewildered Rogers, nastily fulfilling her bidding, and as hastily effecting his bungling retreat.
"With stings," Aggie said nastily, "and teeth, and horns, and claws, and every old thing! Tish, I want to go back. I'm not happy, and I don't enjoy scenery when I'm not happy. Besides, I can't eat the landscape." As I look back, I believe it would have been better if we had returned.
"Exactly, sir. That's what I say, too," said the fat man. "There are only two fields, besides the house," said the third. "He must have had money, and the lawyer knows of no investments of any kind, he says." "Perhaps he has left it to his cat," he added, looking very nastily at Jem and me. "It's oddly put, too," murmured the pale-faced relation.
The Germans are far above them, though for some reason they are called stupid. And the Franco-Russian Entente Cordiale I am as fond of as Tolstoy is. There's something nastily suggestive about these cordialities. On the other hand I was awfully pleased at Virchow's visit to us. We have raised a very nice potato and a divine cabbage. How do you manage to get on without cabbage-soup?
Of course, it was reported in the last mail that the Russians, French, and Germans were all behaving somewhat nastily; but as the Japs have the strongest force of all, and the Americans stick to us, I should think that things will go on well. It would be a disgraceful thing, indeed, if troops marching to the relief of their countrymen could not keep the peace among themselves.
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