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Is one always disappointed, I wonder, when a thing happens which one had longed for, for years and years? I don't know what I want, but I want something!" cried Peggy drearily, and pressed her hands to her brow, while her friend looked on with sympathetic gaze. "It's tea!" she declared oracularly. "It is five o'clock, and you know, Peggy, you always did get melancholy if tea was later than usual.
"The nearer we live to nature, the better," said Senator Biggs oracularly. "Back to nature," shouted Mr. Moody through a clam. "Exactly," Mr. Pierce said, smiling. Mrs. Moody looked alarmed. "You don't mean doing without clothes and all that!" she protested. "Surely!" Miss Summers said, holding up her beer glass. "A toast, everybody!
"Only a question of whether there's a man body about, my dear," said Polly oracularly. "Many a girl is all right and sensible when there are just girls around, but let a lad heave in sight, and the whole situation is altered. I've known Bess since she came to Winsted in a ruffled white apron, and no one can teach me anything about her.
After her prehensile train curled over his boot and she was gone, his wife turned to him and said in the tone of approbation one uses when an infant manifests its groping intelligence, "Very gracious of her, I'm sure!" Mrs. Post nodded oracularly. McKann grunted. Kitty began her second number, a group of romantic German songs which were altogether more her affair than her first number.
Hope, approvingly. "She'd make a first-rate pioneer. We'll keep her out here, Mary, and never let her go home. She was born to live at the West." "Was I? It seems queer then that I should have been born to live in Burnet." "Oh, we'll change all that." "I'm sure I don't see how." "There are ways and means," oracularly. Mrs.
Near the horse trough they paused. "Gold," said Jimmy, oracularly, to George, "is where you find it." "Likewise horse sense," quoth George. Whereupon they whooped wildly and descended on the astonished group. To it they exhibited yellow dust to the value of an hundred dollars. "And more where that came from," said they.
The key was lost. "Why have you taken the trouble to lock an absolutely empty shed?" She had no reason to give. She had locked it, and the key was lost. "She has some reason for not wishing us to go into that shed," Julia said, oracularly, when the circumstance was mentioned to her. "Absurd!" I said, but I did begin to experience an uncomfortable suspicion of the woman.
'Arnidieu! Maignan muttered, 'give me ten men, and I would hold it against a hundred! 'Tut, man, There is more than one way to Rome! I answered oracularly, though I was far from feeling as confident as I seemed. 'Come, let us descend and view this nut a little nearer.
Still, people shook their heads over him, and one grudging friend, to whom he affirmed that he took the step with his eyes open, replied oracularly: "Yes and with your ears shut." Waythorn could afford to smile at these innuendoes. In the Wall Street phrase, he had "discounted" them.
Bounce delivered this oracularly, and followed it up with a succession of puffs, each of which was so solidly yellow as to suggest to the mind of Bertram, who chanced to be taking his portrait at that moment, that the next puff would burst out in pure flame.
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