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"I shall bring this matter to the attention of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals back home," she said somewhat snappishly. But there was no opportunity to exchange more remarks on the subject. Uttering a shrill series of "ye-o-o-ows" the riders bore down on the little desert camp.
"Take him right up to his bedroom," she said commandingly to the men with the stretcher. "Well, if that woman's goin' to take hold, they don't need me," said Mrs. Peckinpaw, snappishly, and she retained her stand upon the strictly neutral ground of the sidewalk. Mrs. Arlo Weeks was "all of a quiver," as she herself said. She followed the men as far as the steps and there sank to a seat. "My, my!
"The desire for privacy is an archaic emotion," Miss Metford remarked sententiously, as she struck a match. "Besides, it is so selfish. We may be crowding others," Miss Brande said quietly. I was glad she did not smoke. "I don't want that now," I said to a porter who was hurrying up with a label. To the girls I remarked a little snappishly, "Of course you are quite right.
Yes; I believe that all the tuners in the universe are in league against me, and have marked me out for their special prey." "All the what?" asked the little girl, with a jerk in her voice. "All the tuners, of course," he replied, rather snappishly. "I know that we cannot do without them; but good heavens! they have no tact, no consideration, no mercy.
Chump responded with a sigh: "There, go again; and the Lord forgive ye for directin' your mind to temporal matters when ye're there! It's none of my doin', remember that; and don't be tryin' to make me a partic'pator in your wickudness." "This is so difficult, ma'am, because you won't begin with Dear," he observed snappishly, as he was retiring.
"Ha, ha, ha!" roared the curate, who had but just then taken the joke about Betsy. "He, he, he!" "Nothing to laugh at, that I can see," observed Mrs Forster, snappishly. "Capital joke, ma'am, I assure you!" rejoined the curate; "but, Mr Forster, we had better proceed to business. Spinney, where are the papers?"
Perhaps it will be a lesson to him not to play tricks with the window-bars again." "The law does not admit of torture, though," the doctor ventured to say; "and this is coming perilously near it." "The law says nothing about opium, I think," said the Governor snappishly. "It is for you to decide, of course, colonel; but I hope you will let the straps be taken off at any rate.
Josiah sez snappishly, "What you mean by bringin' that old chestnut up I cant see." "Well," sez I, "I shan't sew the moral on any tighter." But he kep' on ignorin' my sarcastick allusion. "To keep up the train of almost miraclous incidents marchin' along through the past connecting the St.
Namely, when, bowing very respectfully to the little Judge, he had that complimentary proceeding acknowledged snappishly with, "Don't look at me, sir; look at the jury " Mr. Winkle, in obedience to the mandate, meekly looking "at the place where he thought that the jury might be."
Preliminaries were easily arranged; indeed, the only point of discussion was raised by Westray, who was disturbed by scruples lest the terms which Miss Joliffe offered were too low to be fair to herself. He said so openly, and suggested a slight increase, which, after some demur, was gratefully accepted. "You are too poor to have so fine a conscience," said the organist snappishly.
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