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“He understands that, and is sorry ... I mean, not sorry to lend you his clothes, but sorry about all this business,” mumbled Nikolay Parfenovitch. “Confound his sorrow! Well, where now? Am I to go on sitting here?” He was asked to go back to the “other room.” Mitya went in, scowling with anger, and trying to avoid looking at any one.
She stood over him. "Say?" said she. The boy gave a convulsive wriggle of his back and shoulders, and uttered an inarticulate "Let me alone"; but the girl persisted. "Say?" said she again. Then the boy turned, and disclosed a flushed, scowling face among the flowers. "Well, what do you want, anyway?" said he.
Something in the old basket maker's voice made Jake Vodell look at him sharply and the agitator's black brows were scowling as he said, "So you are friends with him, too, I guess, heh?" "I am, sir; and so is Captain Charlie Martin, who is the head of our Mill workers' union, as you may have heard." "Exactly. That is why I ask.
Some of our men had never been over before, and one of the boat's crew confessed. He was quickly seized and brought before King Neptune. "Sit ye down, right there in that there cheer," said the king, scowling fiercely. The fellow sat down and stared, smiling at the monster. "Have ye paid fer comin' acrost this here latitood, me son?" asked the king. "No," said the sailor.
Miles tried faithfully to attend to his friend's injunctions, but could not resist one glance at his new master, which showed him that a cynical smile rested on his swarthy countenance, a smile which he also observed was copied by those of the crowd who did not prefer to regard him with scowling looks for the people of the Soudan were, naturally enough, filled with indignation against all Europeans, and especially against the British, at that time.
"Now," Ned said, as the signal columns died down, "we'll hike back to camp with our pictures and get supper! How does that strike you?" Jack turned toward Ned impatiently. There was not light enough for his face to show clearly, but Ned knew how the boy was scowling! "And go off and leave Jimmie here?" Jack said. "I'd like to know what you're thinking of! Why have you changed your mind?
"Terrible, my dear fellow, there's nothing left of them!" "What do you think they will say?" "Oh! there will be a fine row." But there never was a row. On the contrary, everybody beamed at Christophe: people whom he detested would bow to him in the street. One day he came to the office uneasy and scowling: and, throwing a visiting card on the table, he asked: "What does this mean?"
But he did not believe that the man before him would answer truthfully the questions he needed to ask. So he decided to experiment in another direction. "This this other you," he went on, "this Hugh Gordon, came to see me once and " "Don't call him my other self!" Felix cried out angrily, jumping to his feet and scowling. "He is a thief, a murderer!
"That's a settler for you anyhow!" said Tom, as he sent one of his adversaries staggering back for a few yards, to fall heavily, when the other retreated, but only for both to out with a knife each, and again come forward to the attack. But my appearance upon the scene stayed them, and they slunk scowling away.
As he passed out of the house, its scowling cornice and facade of ravaged brick looked down on him with the startlingness of a strange face, seen momentarily in a crowd, and impressing itself on the brain as part of an inevitable future. Above the doorway, the marble hand reached out like the cry of an imprisoned anguish. Wyant turned away impatiently. "Rubbish!" he said to himself.
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