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But, by this time, Cicily had come to a realization of the fact that the other women present were every whit as ignorant of parliamentary law as was she herself. So, in this emergency, she did not scruple to make audacious retort. She answered with exceeding blandness: "But, you see, Miss Johnson, there's already a motion before the house." Thereupon, Mrs.
They were rough backwoods' boys, and the spirit of my retort pleased them. After that they held back from jeering me. Not so with Ruffin, who now broke forth into a string of vindictive oaths and menaces, and appeared as if about to grapple me with his one remaining hand.
"You are my wife and you will stay here with me," I reiterated, my brain on fire. "I am my own, and I shall go where I please, and do what I please," was her contemptuous retort. "Why won't you be reasonable? Why won't you see how utterly unsuited we are? I don't ask you to be a gentleman but just a man, and be ashamed even to wish to detain a woman against her will."
"She sure is; and she must think a lot of you," said Van slowly. "I wish my mother'd ever " "Maybe if you pitched in a little harder here she'd feel " "Oh, cut out the preaching, Bobbie," was the impatient retort. "I've had enough for one day." Bob did not speak, but tore open the letter that had come with the bundle. "Oh, listen to this, Van," he shouted excitedly.
"Diverting the ladies, Jack, dear, and giving the captain a chance to practice command, for fear he'll not get a show in battle." The roar that saluted this retort subdued the bumptious cavalier, and he affected deep interest in the whispered questions of one of the young women in the rear of the group. "You're the same old Barney.
The following day was Sunday, and nothing worse took place than little skirmishes, in which the uncle and nephew's retort and rejoinder were so drolly similar, that Clara found herself thinking of Miss Faithfull's two sandy cats over a mouse; but she kept her simile to herself, finding that Isabel regarded the faintest, gentlest comparison of the two gentlemen almost as an affront.
Macaulay showed to great disadvantage in it." It seems probable enough that one main object of the publication of the pamphlet was to goad Mr. Mackenzie into a retort which would render him amenable to the law of libel. In one sense this plan if such there were succeeded.
Upon the question of his magnanimity, as well as of his courage, there could not be two opinions. He would neither retort nor defend himself. I perceived some grandeur in his conduct, without, however, appreciating it cordially, as I did a refinement of discretion about him that kept him from brushing good taste while launched in ostentatious displays. He had a fine tact and a keen intuition.
I went up and called an' tried to open the door, but I couldn't." "Why didn't you try to break in the door?" said Dr. Ravenshaw. "Tweren't my place," was the dogged retort. "I know my place. I was just going to St. Fair for you and his brother." "How long is it since this happened since you heard the crash, I mean." "Not many minutes agone. Just before you came to the door."
"Never mind w'ere I glommed it, Scully," was the retort. "De point is, are youse guys in on helpin' me lick up a growler?" The other tramp had risen, and spoke for both as he strode toward the door. "Lead us to it, Thumbscrew," he swaggered portentously; "lead us to it, ol'-timer!" And the door slammed behind the three. Hiram glanced back at the man behind the newspaper.
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