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Now don't be peeved, Sammy," replied Pepper. "If there's any kick I'll take the blame. What's got into you that you can gamble and drink' with slackers?" Dalrymple jammed his hat on and stepped toward the door. "Dare, you said a lot. I'll beat it with you and I'll never come back." "You bet your sweet life you won't," shouted Swann. "Hold on there, Dalrymple," interposed Mackay, stepping out.
"This is going to be the first offensive of your old Uncle Samuel and if we don't get the whole front page in the New York papers we'll be peeved," Tom's neighbor condescended to inform him. Whatever Uncle Samuel was up to he was certainly very busy about it and very quiet. On the little village green which the cottage faced groups of officers talked earnestly.
"You've had your wish," says I. "I'm Exhibit A. For a profile view of me step around to the left. Anything more?" He don't get peeved at this, nor he don't grin. He just keeps on bein' serious and calm. "If you don't mind," says he, "I should like to see one of the higher officials." "Say, that's almost neat enough to win out," says I. "One of the higher officials, eh?
But once in a while he'd reel off a yarn, an' then he'd hint kind of mysterious like that he knew where some of the old Pirates' doubloons were buried an' that some day, if luck was with him, he'd be a rich man. "I'd heard so much of that kind o' stuff in my time that I used to laugh at him, an' then he'd get peeved that is, as peeved as he dared to be, me being skipper.
Once you've located your spy, the battle's won. It's when he or it may be a she is running loose, that I get peeved!" The Chief sprang impatiently to his feet and strode across the smoking-room, which was all but empty by this time, to get a match from a table. He resumed his seat with a grunt of exasperation. "I can't see light, Okewood!" he sighed, shaking his head.
"You close up that dog's head o' yours, Soapy, or by " "'S all right, Bud, 's all right. Don't get peeved; I'll close up tighter 'n a clam, only it's kinder tough about them teeth " "Are ye goin' t' cut it out or shall " "Aw, calm down, Bud, calm down! Take a drink; it'll do ye good."
The girls have always said she was revengeful like that if she were peeved about anything; but I never believed it before; I used to think Irene just perfect, and it hurt me dreadfully to find she could stoop to this. But I corked up my feelings and sewed away for dear life on a Belgian child's nightgown. "Then Irene told me the meanest, most contemptible thing that someone had said about Walter.
"Well, Kid, I know Heine's all kinds of a liar, but he tells me he's loaned you one of his, an' so " Soapy's long arm shot out in the gloom and seizing Spike's right arm he drew it near. "Why, Kid," said he, "it kind o' looks like Heine told the truth for once by accident, don't it?" "You leggo my wrist!" "Right-o, Kid, right-o! Don't get peeved " "Well, leggo then!" "Sure!
But for this the family found no cause for committal to the asylum, since such committal would necessarily invalidate what he had done. "Grandfather is sure peeved," said Mary, his oldest daughter, herself a grandmother, when her father quit smoking. All he had retained for himself was a span of old horses, a mountain buckboard, and his one room in the crowded house.
"I am terribly peeved. I don't want to play bridge this afternoon. I want to go motoring with Lieutenant Butzow. This is his last day with us." "Yes. I know it is, and I hate to think of it," replied Barney; "but why in the world do you have to play bridge if you don't want to?" "I promised Margaret that I'd go. They're short one, and she's coming after me in her car."
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