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"Why is my character not of the best?" I demanded. "Well, ahem! Your father, you see " "Is innocent." "Perhaps perhaps, but, nevertheless, I will have to hold you. Parsons, I will leave him in your charge." "You have no right to arrest me," I cried, for I knew very little of the law. "What's that?" demanded Judge Penfold, pompously. "You forget I am the judge of that."
The big major walked stiffly and pompously along, swinging his silver-trimmed cane in one hand while Patricia clung to his other arm. The child wore a plain grey cloak, for the evening was chill.
Here on these sands the giant, Goliath, strode out pompously to be slain by a stun from a sling sent by David when he wuz a shepherd boy. "How I wished I had some of them stuns to slay the evil giants of 1900," sez I. "If a stun could be aimed at Intemperance and another at the big monopolies and destroy'em as dead as Goliath, what a boon it would be."
After all, was it love on either side? Sir John asked himself. "My dear Sir John," broke in the Duchess pompously. "A few words from such a man as yourself impress me more profoundly than rhapsodies from another. Ethel, just look out of the window and see if the carriage is waiting.
O'Connell," he continued pompously, again holding up his glass to the light. In the silence that ensued, I could hear the murmur of the girls' voices about the house, and the irregular ticking of two clocks; while there dawned on my mind an impression that somebody had fallen in the fat. "I'm sorry to hear of your loss, Mr. Q ," I remarked, at length.
"Do you hear, John Grange?" said Barnett. "Up with you. Better hitch the rope under that big bough, and saw the next. Make it well fast before you begin to saw." "I thought Mrs Mostyn told you to go up and cut it?" said Ellis pompously; "and I heard you tell her how you should do it?" "Or have it done, sir. Here, up with you, John."
"An' you've come ter the right place, sir the right place," declared Seth Wilber, pompously. "What Professor Marvin don't know about bugs an' spiders ain't wuth knowin'. I tell ye, sir, he's the biggest entymollygist that there is ter be found." "That he is," affirmed the Squire, with an indulgently superior smile toward Wilber "the very greatest entomologist living," he corrected carefully.
"Miss White," said Grace, pompously, "I shall require a few dozen cuttings from your tree, please tell the gardener. Arrangements are such, I shall have to grow jardenias on a scale hitherto unprecedented." There was a laugh, and, in the middle of it, a servant announced Miss Carden's carriage. "What attentive servants you have, Miss White.
Here were Coryston, aged nine, on pony-back, pompously showing off; James, dreamily affable, already a personage at seven; Arthur, fondling a cricket-bat, with a stiff mouth, hastily closed by order on its natural grin; and Marcia, frowning and pouting, in fancy dress as "The Strawberry Girl," just emerging, it seemed, from one battle-royal with her nurse, and about to plunge into another.
He starts first, then Wardour-Devereux, then Cecil, and I mount beside him; Palmet's at our heels. 'But can't you even imagine a purpose for their driving into Bevisham so pompously? 'Well, men with drags haven't commonly much purpose, he said. 'But on this occasion! At an Election time! Surely, Nevil, you can guess at a reason. A second trumpet blew very martially.
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