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Madame Danville frowned portentously, and rose in a great hurry from her chair. "Are your wits failing you, you old fool?" she exclaimed, indignantly. "What do you mean by referring to such a subject as that, on this day, of all others? You are always harping on those two wretched people who were guillotined, as if you thought I could have saved their lives.
"Aw!" "But he's just crazy 'bout them mines. Says there's silver an' lead, and guyabble-knows-what-all in 'em, and when they get it out he'll be a rich man." "Aw!" said Peter, nodding his head portentously, as one who had gauged the futility of earthly riches. He was a young man of large possessions but very few words.
I remember well how I saw everything double that day, and found it at first very amusing. Kirsty set me down on a plaid in the grass, and the next moment, Turkey, looking awfully big, and portentously healthy, stood by my side. I wish I might give the conversation in the dialect of my native country, for it loses much in translation; but I have promised, and I will keep my promise.
"Like to have a tip? No? Good! You're a wise man. They fired me from the North Pass. Wha'd you know about that? Fired me for drinking! Greatest injustice I ever heard of, but I hit running, like a turkey. That wasn't the reason they let me go, though. Not on your life!" He winked portentously, and strangely enough his eyelid failed to resume its normal position.
Marchmont chuckled audibly, and then, remembering the gravity of the occasion, suddenly became portentously solemn. "So you think that the hat is of no use, after all?" said Mr. Löwe, in a tone of deep disappointment. "I won't say that," replied Thorndyke. "We may learn something from it. Leave it with me, at any rate; but you must let the police know that I have it.
The substitute was the same size and shape, and I was not suspicious." "And what form does your suspicion take now?" The great man became rather portentously solemn he himself would have said "becomingly grave." "My conviction is that Mr. Fellowes took my needle." Stafford fixed the other with his gaze. "And killed himself with it?" Mr. Mappin frowned. "Of that I cannot be sure, of course."
Having delivered himself of this oration, the last of the Bumpuses frowned portentously on the youth who had dared to risk his anger, and turning with a bland smile to surly Dick, asked him "if his beak was any better now." "There seems to be bad news in the letter, I think," observed Henry, as Captain Gascoyne perused the epistle with evident signs of displeasure.
What he spoke of your doing for him." Lady Wantridge recalled. "Forgiving him?" "He asked you if you couldn't. But you can't. It's too dreadful for me, as so near a relation, to have, loyally loyally to YOU to say it. But he's impossible." It was so portentously produced that her ladyship had somehow to meet it. "What's the matter with him?" "I don't know."
The crisis was upon her! Her first customer was at the door! Without giving herself time for a second thought, she rushed into the shop, pale, wild, desperate in gesture and expression, scowling portentously, and looking far better qualified to do fierce battle with a housebreaker than to stand smiling behind the counter, bartering small wares for a copper recompense.
He then tossed his foot aside, smiled his long triumphant smile and intimated that it was now my turn to do something. I thought the best thing I could do would be to put his sock on him again, but as soon as I tried to do so I discovered why Irene had warned me so portentously against taking it off. I should say that she had trouble in socking him every morning.
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