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"My, but you must have thought I could eat like a horse!" she remarked scathingly. "You can give them to Julia Duffy," and she flounced out of the seat to another at some distance, leaving Syl to endure an evening of tormenting doubt as to whether he might see her home. Mr. Watson came bustling over nervously to confer with the choir leader.
A chorus of wives and widows there were no old maids in Tahiti condemned scathingly the conduct of the voluptuaries, and the preachers of the gospel lashed them in conversation or sermon now and then. But on the whole there was not in Tahiti any of the spirit of American towns and villages, which wrote scarlet letters, ostracized offenders against moral codes, and made Philistinism a creed.
Against Martial Law as such we did not so much complain; it was an evil, but to some extent a necessary evil; and however prone we were to find fault, however scathingly we condemned the machinations of the "Law," or the stern "will" of its maker, the possibility of yielding to the other enemy was never entertained for one moment. No proposal of the kind was ever made.
The one-eyed man stared scathingly at such ignorance. Why not? The underworld might know, but native gossip never reached white ears. What was the best way of finding out, then? The one-eyed man had no hesitation about his answer. A native must use his eyes and ears for the American. Through his subtle skill and the American's money the discovery could be made. The women servants would talk.
Straightforwardness and genuine honesty are demanded; and all cant, hypocrisy, double dealing, shirking, and unreality are scathingly condemned. Persistent cheerfulness in the midst of monotony, drudgery, suffering, danger, or death, is admired and maintained by the majority. This is not incompatible with the "grousing" or grumbling which the Englishman regards as his prerogative.
"What's that?" asked Matthew, somewhat nettled at this manner of describing Robert's slightly bent legs. "He canna rin, ye say! Weel, if he couldna' rin better than Peter Rundell, he should never try it. Look at Rundell!" he went on scathingly, "doubled up like a fancy canary, and a hump on his back like a greyhound licking a pot. Rinnin'! He's mair like an exhibition o' a rin-a-way toy rainbow.
The only ungentlemanly thing I ever did in my life was to " He checked the angry words, biting his lips to keep them down. "Was to desert your wife," she supplied scathingly. "No! To marry her!" He blurted it out in his rage. "Oh!" she cried, shrinking farther away from him, cut to the quick. He regarded her with cold, fishy eyes. She was uncommonly pretty, he was bound to admit that.
"Perhaps he is afraid of the uniform of the U. S. A." "He may be afraid of the uniform," sniffed Mollie scathingly. "But he certainly couldn't be afraid of you." "Now you don't mean that, you know you don't," laughed Roy, drawing her down beside him on the couch and holding her there with an iron grip of his brown fingers. "Say you didn't, like a pretty little girl, and I'll let you go."
He had plunged into the unrestrained border life. Its changing, raw, and fateful excitement might have made him forget, but behind all was the terrible seeking to destroy and be destroyed. Joan shuddered when she remembered how she had mocked this boy's wounded vanity how scathingly she had said he did not possess manhood and nerve enough even to be bad.
"No wonder they had such a wonderful strike," came scathingly. "That other stope down there " "Ain't nothing but a salted proposition," said Harry. "They 've cemented up the top of it with the real stuff and every once in a while they blow a lot of it out and cement it up again to make it look like that's the real vein." "And they 're working our mine!"
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