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The note hints that the old lady's generally excellent temper is a little ruffled, and requests all due indulgence for her, in consideration of her age and her habits. I will endeavour, in my relations with Mrs. Merridew, to emulate the moderation which Betteredge displays in his relations with me. He received us to-day, portentously arrayed in his best black suit, and his stiffest white cravat.
"But what haf you been doing during the holidays?" exclaimed the maestro at last, his odd, husky voice fierce with annoyance. "There is no ease -no flexibility. You are as stiff as a rusty hinge. Ach! But you will haf to work not play any more." He frowned portentously, then with a swift change to a more reasonable mood, he continued: "Let us haf some songs Saint-Saens' Amour, viens aider.
"I want you should make over the Turnbull place to Hermie, and have him fetch Annie there as soon as ever she'll come, and let him farm it without if or but from you and me." Myron was on his feet. He looked portentously large and masterful. "You better not think o' packin' the chiny," he said, in his ordinary tone of generalship.
But it was really strange. They had festooned their cordage on whatever was stationary in the room, making a sort of gray, dusky tapestry, that waved portentously in the breeze, and flapped, heavy and dismal, each with its spider in the centre of his own system.
He pointed to a parcel which contained chemises and nightdresses. 'That, said Mrs. Marston, frowning portentously at Hazel, who was tearing it open 'that is other useful garments. 'What for canna I show 'em Ed'ard? I want to show all. The money was his'n. It was a tribute to Edward's self-control that she was so entirely lacking in shyness towards him. 'My dear! A young man! whispered Mrs.
"Wayne," said Benson, "how would you like to go to China?" And Honaton repeated portentously, "China," as if Benson might have made a mistake in the name of the country if he had not been at his elbow to correct him. Wayne laughed. "Well," he said, "I have nothing against China." Benson outlined the situation quickly.
I'm in hopes she's got b'iled dish. You look here!" She opened the bag, and searched portentously, the while Letty, in some unworthy interest, regarded the smooth, thick hair under her large poke-bonnet. Debby had an original fashion of coloring it; and this no one had suspected until her little grandson innocently revealed the secret.
A sudden change, too, had come over the "ex-brave". He assumed a portentously solemn look; and when he spoke to me again, his speech was ornamented by no oaths, enforced by no finger-snapping, enlivened by no apostrophes or exclamations. "Listen, my dear sir," said he, in mysteriously confidential tones "listen to an old soldier's advice.
He flashed his lamp into the dark corner, and I was able to see distinctly the portentously large holes into which the bolts had fitted, and also to note the remarkable neatness with which they had been plugged. "There was a second door, I remember," said I. "Let us see if that was guarded in a similar manner."
But, not content with the general effect, he tried the effect of expression frowned portentously, scowled savagely, gaped hideously, and grinned horribly a ghastly smile. Then our dandy fitted into his ears, which were bored in several places, sundry ornaments, such as rings, wampum, etcetera, and hung several strings of beads round his neck.
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