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The Cap'n blinked up at him in mute query. "It ain't ever safe to sass people that's got the ear of the public, like reporters and show people," proceeded Hiram, rebukingly. "I've been in the show business, and I know. They can do you, and do you plenty, and you don't stand the show of an isuckle in a hot spider." "What are ye tryin' to get through you, anyway?" demanded the first selectman.
"My dear," persisted Isabel, rebukingly, "I mean such friends as Ruth Byington." Mrs. Morris let go her little Southern laugh once more. "Don't you believe her, General don't you believe her. She means you every bit as much as she means Ruth. She means everybody on Bylow Hill." "I'm at the mercy of my interpreter," said Isabel.
Ministers' wives are rather apt to think they can run everything and everybody, if they are not wholesomely corrected now and again. "It is not what I like best that must be considered, Mrs. Allan," I said rebukingly. "It is what is best for those boys. I feel that I shall be best for THEM." "Oh, I've no doubt of that, Miss MacPherson," said Mrs. Allan amiably.
By'r Lady, there would be scarcely five hundred fools in merry England to waste good nobles on spoilt rags, specially while bows and mail are so dear." "Young gentleman," said Adam, rebukingly, "meseemeth that thou wrongest our age and country, to the which, if we have but peace and freedom, I trust the birth of great discoveries is ordained.
"Ney' mind how 'bsurd 't sounds," returned the fair Trimble rebukingly. "You close y'r face 'n lissen t' me. Thass all you've gotta do." "I know you didn't do it!" cried Ann, tightening her hold on Jimmy's arm. "Less 'f it, please. Less 'f it!" Miss Trimble removed the pistol from her mouth and pointed it at Jimmy. "What've you to say? Talk quick!" "I happened to be down there "
And you've lost me a fortune by your selfish behavior." "I don't think we need talk of selfishness when you are present, Garvington." "Why not? By marrying Agnes you have made her give up the money." "She wished to give it up to punish you," said Lambert rebukingly. "To punish me!" Garvington's gooseberry eyes nearly fell out of his head. "And what have I done?"
"I have already had occasion, Jeeves," I said rebukingly, "to comment on the way you say 'Well, sir' and 'Indeed, sir? I take this opportunity of informing you that I object equally strongly to your 'Sir? pure and simple. The word seems to suggest that in your opinion I have made a statement or mooted a scheme so bizarre that your brain reels at it.
"It was great fun to watch uncle he's very dignified in his official capacity. He frowned as it was handed him, as if not liking the intrusion into holy routine. He did not open it at once but sat there holding it rebukingly me chuckling down in the family pew. Then he adjusted his glasses and opened it ponderously. I wish you could have seen his face!
As for Phil, he seemed to have undergone a complete yet subtle transformation during that short journey across the waters of the lake; his eyes blazed with eagerness, his nostrils dilated as though after a prolonged absence he was once more breathing his native air; he carried himself with a new and kingly dignity that somehow seemed to render him unapproachable; he gave his orders with the calm finality of tone of an absolute monarch; his knowledge of the place which he was approaching was so intimate as to be positively uncanny, as was evidenced when the raft drew near the island: those in charge would have run her ashore at the nearest point, but as soon as Stukely perceived what they would be at he turned to them and said rebukingly: "Not there; not there! bear away to the south.
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