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But what's the use of a fat old slob like me getting peeved because Miss Alix Crown don't happen to notice me? Oh, we're great friends and all that, mind you, and she thinks a lot of me, as manager of her grain elevator. Same as she thinks a lot of Jim Bagley, her superintendent, and Ed Stevens, her chauffeur, and so on. Now, as for you, it's different.
"Well, you were telling Apple all about that Indian who came last night, but you didn't tell me." "Oh, nonsense, boy. You are peeved too easily. That Indian was just old Joe Marrowfat, who had followed me up from the farm. Apple is romantic and he wanted a string of stuff about the noble red man's noble antecedents. I need you, all the time, to be the mainspring of this business."
"Something's got his goat," he reflected. "I wonder what he's peeved about?" They crossed Broad Street and Roger started off down Chestnut. Aubrey saw the bookseller halt in a doorway to light his pipe, and stopped some yards behind him to look up at the statue of William Penn on the City Hall.
Simon, who lived in an open sanitarium, and was always accompanied by an attendant, asked for the magazines for undertakers; if there were not enough available, he went off peeved, cursing the crematorium. Kuno Kohn also came a few times every week, rarely to buy something, mainly to visit his friend and to make an appointment for the evening rendez-vous.
The Spaniards don't like us, and I dare say they have good reason, with all this talk of intervention and the secret help we're lending the Insurrectos. They held me up in Havana; tried to prove I was a spy. They were positively peeved when they failed. Snippy people, those Spaniards." "Well, I'll tell Mr. Carter you're here."
He was pretty peeved, judging from what he said about my being on the wrong number. And mother, listening all the time, and I knowing that she knew something told me that she knew and she knowing that I knew she knew.... I tell you, it was awful!" "And the girl?" "She broke off the engagement. Apparently she waited at the church from eleven till one-thirty, and then began to get impatient.
I take it the mater was a trifle peeved? Not to say perturbed and chagrined? I seemed to notice at dinner." "She was furious, of course. She did not refer to the matter when we were alone together, but there was no need to. I knew what she was thinking." Derek threw away his cigar.
"Huh!" says I. "I wonder what they could have been peeved about on such a fine night?" "Or I might have been simply dreaming," she adds. "Yes, and then again," says I, smotherin' a chuckle. I could hardly wait to dress and shave before rushin' out to inspect the spot where I'd almost ruined myself only the mornin' before. And it was something worth inspectin'. I'll say.
Peeved, was she, over the row last night?" "Oh, no, sorr; quite cheerful an' friendly. She's ordered a big car from New York and told me it would be coming up to-day and to make a place for it." Here was news indeed, destroying all my hopes that she meditated only a brief sojourn. The purchase of a machine meant definitely that she would remain for some time, perhaps for the winter.
"Figgered to plug me while the horses was restin', knowin' I'd have to breathe them about here. Thought one shot would get me. Missed his reckonin'. Must be a mite peeved by this time." His gaze became intent again, but this time it was directed to some underbrush about two hundred yards distant, back of the rocks.
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