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The citizens of this town, which had once so heroically opposed the whole of Tilly's forces, were chased by a handful of hussars into the Bockshorn, and were actually compelled to pay a fine of forty thousand florins, with which the cornet scoffingly withdrew, carrying off with him two of the town councillors as hostages.
He saw her reputation, so spotless now, consigned to a thousand reckless presses, each tearing her secret forth with its cruel iron fingers, crushing it into some slanderous shape between its ponderous cylinders, and hurling it, blackened with lies and coarse jests, scoffingly to the world. He saw the effect of this murderous publicity upon Mabel herself, when it should recoil back to her.
"She was even singing the very song that used to be a favorite of her Highness!" remarked Chatelard. "Your memory serves you too well." But Chatelard turned scoffingly toward Agatha. "You sang it well, Mademoiselle, very well. And, as this gentleman asserts, you deceived even me. But you are indiscreet to walk unattended in the park." Agatha, unnerved and weak, had grown pale with fear.
He's got to want his kids like as how I've been wantin' mine " "Ye ain't had no kids, Lon," his brother broke in scoffingly. "I would a had if he'd a kept his hands to hum and let me see her.
He went on as though he had not heard her: "I hoped that your one relapse would be your last, and pleaded for you, thinking so. It was no easy matter to win you even you absolution." "Bah!" she retorted scoffingly. "Think you I do not know why it was granted? I am valuable, am I not?" "You were." "Were!" she cried.
Few among her relations and friends would mourn her exile. Even her own son, Jim, was scoffingly indifferent. She was far from being so, but played her part well, being obedient, quite tame, and ever observant.
The Purdee grasp was gentler on the little girl's arm. This was due not to fraternal feeling so much as to loyalty to the clan; "stack o' bones" though she was, they were Purdee bones. "Kem along," Ab Purdee exhorted her. "A baby ain't nuthin' extry, nohow" he glanced scoffingly at the infantile Grinnell. "The mountings air fairly a-roamin' with 'em."
He said something to his companions; and encouraged, no doubt, by the position of our seats at the board, which led him to think us people of small consequence, he came to a stop opposite us. 'What! more dukes here? he cried scoffingly. 'Hallo, you sir! he continued to me, 'will you not unmask and drink a glass with me? I thanked him civilly, but declined.
Almost as though she got a sudden warning to go from some one." "Mr. Brown, I suppose," said Julius scoffingly. The lawyer looked at him deliberately for a minute or two. "Why not?" he said. "Remember, you yourself have once been worsted by him." Julius flushed with vexation. "I feel just mad when I think of how I handed out Jane's photograph to him like a lamb.
"What's that you say?" demanded Annie scoffingly. None the less she slowly drew over to the end of another saw horse and seated herself. "I'll go when I get good and ready." "Of course, you can't tell much about a woman first few weeks. They put on their best airs then. But anyways, I've sort of got reconciled to seeing you around here. I had a po'try book in my house.
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