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Foster dropped his muffler pettishly. "Read, if you won't talk!" "I can talk all right," returned Randolph. "In fact, I have a bit of news for you." "What is it?" "I'm going to move." Foster peered out from under his shade. "Move? What for? I thought you were all right where you are. "All right enough; except that I want more room and a house of my own." "Have you found one?"
"I wonder what became of the communion table?" said Job. "Oh! my dear father, do not call it a communion table," exclaimed John Hampden pettishly. "Why, what should I call it, my boy?" "The altar." "Why, what does it signify what we call it? The thing is the same." "Ah!" exclaimed the young gentleman, in a tone of contemptuous enthusiasm, "it is all the difference in the world.
"No," said Ella pettishly, "but seems to me Mary is dreadful anxious to have folks know that Mr. Stuart visited her school." "No, she isn't," answered Jenny. "I told her that I rode past her school-house yesterday, and should have called, had I not seen a big man's head protruding above the window sill.
About nine o'clock that night Liddy came into the living-room and reported that one of the housemaids declared she had seen two men slip around the corner of the stable. Gertrude had been sitting staring in front of her, jumping at every sound. Now she turned on Liddy pettishly. "I declare, Liddy," she said, "you are a bundle of nerves. What if Eliza did see some men around the stable?
"Rot!" "Oh! you were pleased, then?" "I don't say as I was, or wasn't." "You're rather like the Sphinx." "What's that?" "Enigmatic." She didn't understand, and looked rather cross. "I told you I wasn't looking at you," she exclaimed pettishly. "Then you told a lie," Julian said, with supreme gravity. "Think of that, Cuckoo."
"Of all faults that a man can have," she said pettishly, "I do not think there's one so detestable as that of self-distrust. Why could he not have said ten years ago, 'I behaved badly, Mary; I treated you abominably; but forgive me and forget. I was not wholly to blame, except that I allowed others to come between us? If he had come and said that, we could at least have been good friends.
Once more he slipped into dreaminess.... An hour passed without his knowing it. He heard it strike and started in astonishment. "Ada!..." he whispered to the girl. "Ada!" he said again. "It's eight o'clock." Her eyes were still closed: she frowned and pouted pettishly. "Oh! let me sleep!" she said. She sighed wearily and turned her back on him and went to sleep once more. He began to dream.
"What ails you, Wilford?" his mother asked, but he answered pettishly: "Nothing, so pray don't look at me so curiously as if I was hiding some terrible secret." He was hiding a secret, and it almost betrayed itself, when at last he said good-by to his mother, who followed him to the door and stood looking after him in the darkness until the sound of his footsteps died away upon the pavement.
They're not OUR tracks; I thought it strange we hadn't sighted the coach by this time." "And then" said Miss Cantire impatiently. "We must turn back until we find them again." The young lady frowned. "Why not keep on until we get to the top?" she said pettishly. "I'm sure I shall." She stopped suddenly as she caught sight of his grave face and keen, observant eyes. "Why can't we go on as we are?"
She turned away to put the ring into its case. "Not yet," she replied, pettishly. "Time enough when it can't be helped. It is a secret, I tell you, and I don't care about everybody's talking it over." And she would say no more. "It is my impression," said Dolly, "that something is going to happen." She was not in the best of spirits. She could not have explained why.
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