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Taken aback at suddenly finding herself on the defensive Lady Ryehampton blinked at him somewhat owlishly: "That's all very well," she said in a less severe tone. "But is there a kittens' home at all a kittens' home with kittens in it? That's what I want to know." "But we wrote and told you how many kittens we had in the cats' home.

Seeing Hollis's weapon and his own on the desk, the light of past events seemed to filter into his bewildered brain. He grinned owlishly, felt of his jaw and then bowed his head, a flush of shame overspreading his face. "Herd-rode!" he said dismally. "Herd-rode, an' by a tenderfoot! Oh, Lordy!" He suddenly looked up at Hollis, his eyes flashing with rage and defiance.

'Did you know it? have you seen it? she said, stooping forward a little. 'I believe in spite of all.... He gazed on solemnly, almost owlishly, out of his fading mask. 'Wait till Mr Bethany tells you; you will believe it perhaps from him. He saw the grey-gloved hand a little reluctantly lifted towards him. 'Good-bye, Sheila, he said, and turned mechanically back to the window.

By degrees the conversation degenerated into disputation, for it is the manner of some men, when "in liquor," to become intensely pugnacious as well as owlishly philosophical.

Paul blinked owlishly through the stupidity of his condition, and upon his delicate features the unaccustomed and swollen flush dwelt in a disfiguring blot. He shook his head and informed thickly, "Jefferson Edwardes's dead." "I know that and you're drunk."

Young Wheeler would refer owlishly to the Maries and Jennies of an opera troupe recently in Addington, and Ollie Hastings, the oldest bore, would tell long stories, and wheeze. But Reardon was no sooner in his seat, with his glass beside him, than he realised he was disturbed, in some unexpected way.

"Well, yes; if you were two-and-twenty." "There was a time, not so long ago," she said, drawing his gaze as a magnet draws a needle, "when the disparity in years was of no matter." The count laughed. "That was three years ago; and, if my memory serves me, you smiled." "Perhaps I was first to smile; that is all." "I observe a mental reservation," owlishly. "I will put it plainly, then.

Captain Bingo throws his long legs off their resting-place, and sits sideways, staring rather owlishly at his young friend. He shakes his head in a dismal way several times, and sucks hard at his cigar as he shakes it. "For a bit, but does it last? When I came down to hunt you up last June at the cottage at Cookham " "Look here, old man!"

Anarchism wouldn't interest a sensible little woman like Kitty." "You never can tell what will interest a woman," said Merrihew owlishly. "There's truth in that. But Kitty isn't romantic; she has her bump of caution." "I agree to that. She refused me." They both laughed quietly.

They talks their own lingo and there ain't nobody but a Basco that knows this Basco talk." "Well," said Snake, easily. "What's the answer? I'll bite." "French Pete's gal has lit in here all spraddled out an' lookin' fer French Pete's mine," croaked Banker, impressively. Snake was owlishly dense. "His gal? Never knew he had a gal."