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Updated: May 8, 2025
"I know lots an' lots of Clipture," her niece's voice proclaimed proudly as she sat down heavily in her wheelbarrow on the top of some garden produce she had collected. "How much do you know?" Tony asked sceptically. "Oh, lots an' lots, all about poor little Jophez in the bullushes, and his instasting dleams." "Twasn't Jophez," Tony corrected.
She swept on deliberately, with the grace of her long stride, her head raised, a little smile on her open lips, her hand just touching his, going forward with him into life. Only two faces stood out from the others at this moment, the dark, mischievous face of Nancy Lawton, smiling sceptically.
"He had a right to think we were his friends; and if he has done wrong, or is in disgrace any way, isn't it manly of him to wish to tell us first himself?" Her father could not say that it was not. But he could and did say, very sceptically: "Stuff! Now, see here, Agatha: what are you going to do?" "I'm going to see Mrs. March, and then "
"I thought," said Hilda, with all possible prim worldliness, "I thought I heard him saying something about buying the property?" Mrs. Lessways laughed, sceptically, confidently, as one who could not be deceived. "Pooh!" she said. "That was only a try-on. That was only so that he could begin his palaver! Don't tell me!
"H'm!" sniffed Freeman, sceptically, yet impressed by the change In Gilmartin's attitude from the money-borrowing humility of the previous week to the confident tone of a man with a straight tip. Sharpe was notoriously kind to his old friends rich or poor. "I was there when the papers were signed," Gilmartin said, hotly. "I was going to leave the room, but Sam told me I needn't.
"Last night, I admit, it seemed very terrifying to us, but that was probably because we couldn't see what it was that frightened us. It may just have been a large dog or something." "Humph," sniffed Amy, sceptically, "it must have been a monster dog. Sort of a ghost hound." "Goodness, that's going from bad to worse," laughed Betty, as they rejoined the other girls.
'In about two or three weeks, answered Vandeloup, carelessly, 'but not till you find another clerk; besides, Madame, do not think you have lost sight of me for ever; I will go down to Melbourne, settle all my affairs, and come up and see you again. 'So you say, replied Mrs Villiers, sceptically smiling.
Skaggs were honest with them and they have been just as honest in return." "Sounds very attractive," muttered Deppingham sceptically. "I should think they'd be terribly tempted," said Lady Agnes. "They look so wretchedly poor." "They are a bit out at the knees," said her husband, with a great laugh.
"No, no," she pleaded. "Don't leave me! I don't know why but I can't stand. I can't walk." "Did you really hear something?" he asked sceptically. The light note of satire stung her pride. "Oh, I saw them, and they saw me," she protested. "I saw three men, and they all ran as I came into the dining-room." He broke into a short laugh. "Got them on the run, did you?
One must do him justice: he was captivated by his role of mentor and moralist, but the lodgers dogged him, and, listening sceptically to his exhortations to repentance, would whisper aside to each other: "Cunning, skilful, shifty rogue! I told you so, but you would not listen. It's your own fault!" "His honour is really a good soldier. He goes first and examines the road behind him!"
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