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As he watched, she threw her head back and laughed softly. He caught the gleam of a white throat and of dark sloe eyes. "She's a pretty one," said Pennell. "God! but they're queer little bits of fluff, these girls. It beats me how they're always gay, and always easy to get and to leave. And they get rottenly treated sometimes." "Yes I'm damned if I understand them," said Alex.
Chris had come for the girl at three o'clock, just as she was starting out for one of her aimless, unhappy tramps, and had carried her off for a twenty-five-mile run to the quiet corner of the tavern's porch in Tarrytown where they were having tea. "I suppose that's just life. Things go so rottenly, sometimes!"
Almost before the words had left his lips, a hail of lead barked out from twenty vantage-points, and the smoke showed where some forty men were squinting down steel barrels, shooting as rapidly and as rottenly as natives of India usually do.
"And do you know her husband?" she asked. She turned her beautiful eyes to his pale face. "I've never seen him," said Jimmy. "But I should think he's a brute from what I've heard about him. He he oh, he treated her rottenly." "What a shame!" Christine half turned and looked after Cynthia Farrow's retreating figure. "Jimmy, wouldn't you be proud of such a beautiful wife?"
"For my part," observed Amy, who had been rather bored by the discussion, "I think the whole bunch of you played pretty rottenly." "You do, eh?" demanded Edwards. "Suppose you tell us all about it, Amy. Give us of your wisdom, O enlightened one." "There you go," groaned Tom Hall, "talking the way he does!"
He smiled on me the other day as if I was his best friend." "He didn't smile at me." "I think he hates you; I can't get properly hated, when I try to show Dennison I loathe him he smiles. There's something wrong with me somewhere." "You are too rottenly good-natured." "I never thought of that," I said. "That's it," Jack declared; "I saw Lambert hitting you on the back in the quad this morning."
I feel it most frightfully.... I've let down the books. They'll take a back place in the business now. Twyning's always been jealous of them. Fortune's never really liked my success with them. They'll begin interfering with the books now.... My books.... It was rottenly done. Behind my back. Plotted against me, or they wouldn't have sprung it on me like that.
I thought of the black scorched stones of burnt and abandoned farms, of wretched natives we had found shot like dogs and flung aside, rottenly amazed, decaying in infinite indignity; of stories of treachery and fierce revenges sweeping along in the trail of the greater fighting.
"Because it's all so rottenly ignoble," he said, without looking at me. "For whom?" I asked, trying to speak calmly. "For me for you," he cried out, with his head in his hands. "For you to have been faced with, I mean. It's awful, to think that you've had to stand it!" He reached out for me, but I was too far away for him to touch. "Oh, Tabby, I've been such an awful rotter.
Every bone in my body began to ache. I was, of course, rottenly trained, without a sound muscle in my body, and my legs threatened cramp, my heel grated against my boot and sent a stab to my stomach with every movement, my shoulders seemed to pull away from the stretcher as though they would separately rebel against my orders ... and my hand began again to slip.
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