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With these words, the matron dropped into her chair, and, once more resting her elbow on the table, thought of her solitary fate. The small teapot, and the single cup, had awakened in her mind sad recollections of Mr. 'I shall never get another! said Mrs. Corney, pettishly; 'I shall never get another like him. Whether this remark bore reference to the husband, or the teapot, is uncertain.
John was marching pettishly up and down the room, and Madame Langai was reading her documents with the greatest attention so that nobody observed the surprise, the confusion reflected in the countenance of the lawyer as he looked through the fatal Latin manuscripts.
'Apage, Sathanas! murmured his reverence, pettishly, raising his plump, blue chin, and dropping his eyelids with a shake of the head, and waving the back of his fat, red hand gently towards the speaker. 'In that case, stay here, an' look your full, an' welcome, only don't make a noise; behave like a Christian, an' hould your tongue; but if you really hate fightin', as you say
All was still; the blinds drawn down, but the room was light enough for him to see the hands upon the face of the little timepiece over the fireplace. "Ten minutes to four," said the clock. "All the clocks are wrong," said Harry, pettishly. "It must be late. I know it is. I'll go in the kitchen."
It's one of the things that are hardest to tell. I'd spoil it if I told it now. Perhaps some day I'll be able to tell it properly. It's very beautiful but it might sound very ridiculous if it wasn't told just exactly the right way." "I don't know what you mean, and I don't believe you know yourself," said Felicity pettishly.
Deeply occupied in his library, one, rushing in, informed him that the house was on fire: "Go to my wife these matters belong to her!" pettishly replied the interrupted student.
‘Well,’ continued Gabriel with a resigned air, as if he knew there was no getting over the point about the carpet, ‘I was just saying, it was so dark that I could hardly see my hand before me. ‘Pie to your master,’ interrupted Mrs. Parsons, again directing the servant. ‘Now, pray, my dear,’ remonstrated Parsons once more, very pettishly. Mrs.
"You should not have turned that light on me," objected the other dark figure rather pettishly. "We might be seen from the road." "Not a soul passing," Leslie assured. "I was not going to take chances of hailing the wrong party." "Please remember that I have to be even more careful than you. No one must ever be allowed to suspect that we know each other." Laura Sayres spoke with cool precision.
"But yet I must ask you to submit to that disagreeable necessity." Fred moved pettishly, but as he could not refuse, he only told Henrietta that he could not bear any one to look at him while his pulse was felt.
"Pray, don't," cried she, pettishly. "You are sure to do it all wrong." "Let me try," pleaded Jack. "If you just look at me I shall know when to turn." Thank you. Now you had better go away; this is not at all the sort of music you would understand." "Classical, I suppose. I am afraid my taste is too uncultivated." "Come, Miss Leigh," said the Colonel, half-impatiently, "we are all expectation."
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