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"That makes the matter worse, you robber!" she retorted, smiling good- naturedly at his broad mimicry of her Irish pronunciation. "Why, ye're adding insult now to injury, sure." "Never mind, Polly," interposed her brother, acting as peacemaker between the two. "The Captain will show you how to cook soles properly the next time he catches any."

"I'll pass you in," the policeman said good naturedly, and he led him forward to the spot where the engines were playing upon the burning houses. "Is it true, mate," he asked a fireman, "that a woman and two children have been burned?" "It's true enough," the fireman said. "The landlady and her children. Her husband was a porter at the railway station, and had been detained on overtime.

"Oh, you needn't talk!" cried Tom, growing red in the face. "You were just as attentive as a dancing master yourself." "Don't quarrel about it," put in Dick good naturedly. "You can be pleasant to them without forgetting all about Grace and Nellie Laning, I think." "Or Dora Stanhope either," put in Sam slyly. "Shall we stop at the house on the way back?" "Why not?

She looked so good naturedly on Stanley and myself, that we should have ogled her into a breakfast ere this, had not the General sworn he would not break his fast until he had planted the colours of England on yon fortress, or failed in the attempt. Of course we, as young heroes, could not think of eating after that.

John Egerton glanced across the table quickly. He was beginning to suspect that Donald Neil's chum had had a hand in this childish affair, but he was too wise to show any annoyance. "I didn't get a chance to say much to him," he said, laughing good naturedly; "he did the talking.

In the bottom of the box were four shirts of the softest flannel, two pairs of long black woolen stockings, and a canoeing suit of stout brown cloth knickerbockers, blouse, and a yachting cap. It was a fine outfit, and the boys good naturedly envied Nugget his luck. The date of departure was fixed for the first week in July.

"Hurry," he urged, "there's the Exposition car." We were in front of the Ferry Building and the crowd was jostling us in every direction. "You surely are not going to the Exposition!" I exclaimed in mock surprise. "Of course I am. Where else should we go?" "But, my dear Antiquary, those buildings are only a few months old!" He laughed good naturedly.

I have not spent more than half of what I earned last summer. This season I hope to lay by a whole lot, so that I shall be quite independent." "And so you shall, so you shall, my boy," Sparling exclaimed, rising and smiting Phil good naturedly with the flat of his hand. Instead of tearing up the check, however, Mr.

That evening the usual subject of conversation came up, Northern and Southern men good naturedly discussing the news, and each construing a victory for his side. Finally the Indian spoke up and said, "I think, gentlemen, I can settle your controversy. I have received the latest papers and all are agreed that the battle resulted in a disaster to the Federal arms."

"Abbott is going to punish that girl?" cried Miss Sapphira; "going to take her in hand? What do you mean by 'taking her in hand'? She is too old! Robert, you make me blush." "You ain't a-blushing, Sapphira," her brother assured her, good- naturedly, "you're suffering from the hot weather.

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