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But immediately he had forgotten why he had said it. The world was the same again. And Ellen was sitting there on the other side of the table, and she seemed very real. She murmured petulantly, "I can't remember a thing mother said.... I can't remember what I've got to buy," and swept the money into her pocket.
Entirely recovered from all ill effects of his afternoon in Jackson's store up in Perry's bend, Johnny Nelson waited with Red Connors on the platform of the branding chute and growled petulantly at the sun, the dust, but most of all at the choking, smarting odor of burned hair which filled their throats and caused them to rub the backs of grimy hands across their eyes.
Certainly at the present moment her expression was austere, although uneasy and distressed as well. "What are you doing, Sally?" she inquired, her voice gentle and solicitous, yet observing that a wave of color had swept over Sally's face even before she had spoken. The next moment Sally flung her bag down on the floor again, answering petulantly: "What am I doing?
Only a few days before the capitulation of the beleaguered city, Senator Wade of Ohio "Bluff Ben Wade," as he was termed called upon the President and urged Grant's dismissal; to which Lincoln good-naturedly replied, "Senator, that reminds me of a story." "Yes, yes," rejoined Wade petulantly, "that is the way it is with you, sir, all story story!
"Dineen's not back, sir," he reported at the gate. "Can anything be wrong?" "I ordered him to bring with him the answer to my dispatch to the general, who wired to me from the railway depot at Cheyenne. Probably he's been waiting for that, and the general's away somewhere. We ought to have an operator here day and night," said Pecksniff petulantly.
"Go at once, and I swear to you that, happen what may, I will be calm." The doctor went back into Paul's room, while Tantaine sat down on the topmost stair, his face buried in his hands. Mademoiselle Flavia was just going to Paul, when the doctor again appeared. "What, back again?" asked she petulantly. "I thought that you had been far away by this time."
Her tears had vanished and she sat forward with her dark eyes sparkling, one hand supporting her pretty face as she glanced round the room. "Have you a cigarette?" she asked suddenly. Kemp went into the shop and came back with a packet of cheap cigarettes. The girl pushed them away petulantly. "I don't like that brand," she said; "haven't you anything better?" The man shook his head. "No?
"I'm wishin' she'd not be troublin' wi' me so I'm not wantin' un," he declared almost petulantly at times when the girl did something for him that he preferred to do himself. Mornings he would wander down through the valley attending to his deadfalls and snares, and afternoons tramp over the hills in the hope of seeing caribou.
"You make so much of everything," she had replied petulantly; but she had remained at home. The ladies' gallery was, however, quite full. Mrs. Finn was there, of course, anxious not only for her friend, but eager to hear how her husband would acquit himself in his task. The wives and daughters of all the ministers were there, excepting the wife of the Prime Minister.
"In sober earnest, what are you talking about?" he asked, petulantly. "I say that if there is someone at the Hotel de Sairmeuse named Camille, I have the proof I desire. Come, Papa Absinthe, let us hurry on." And without another word of explanation, he dragged his companion rapidly along. When they reached the Rue de Crenelle, Lecoq saw a messenger leaning against the door of a wine-shop.
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