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Updated: April 30, 2025
She let it slip into the fold of her dress, and laid her forearms with clasped fingers over her knees, which she pressed desperately together. The dreaded thing was out of sight at last. She felt a dampness break out all over her. "I am not going to hide you, like that good-for-nothing, finicky, sneery gentleman. You shall be my pride and my chum.
I'd be doing right by you, but they'd say I didn't know my place, and by and by they'd prove it to me sharp and sneery. I'll be a coward to stop away, but 'Sensible man, they'll say. 'Knows when he isn't wanted. You see, ma'am, yours is the only house in Sialpore where I can walk in and know I'm welcome whether you're at home or not." "All the more reason for coming to the party, Tom." "Ah-h-h!
Gladstone.... Get up into the pulpit and say "Gladstone" very loud... and watch the result. Gladstone was a Radical... "pull everything up by the roots."... Pater was always angry and sneery about him.... Where were the Radicals? Somewhere very far away... tub-thumping... the Conservatives made them thump tubs... no wonder. She decided she must be a Radical.
All I done was just this: An old friend come up to me had a drop in him, must have had! and he says: 'Your old hoss won't win, Mat, he says, very insultifyin'. 'My old hoss will win then, I answers, polite as you please. 'De we, I says, mindful o' Mar. 'Will you back your opinion? says he, sneery. 'No, I says, very firm.
I know when anybody likes me, and when anybody doesn't. Lady Danby didn't like me, and she give a sneery laugh when she called me a protege, and when you weren't looking that chap made an offer at me with the black cane he carried, that one with a silver top and black tassels." "Did he?" "Didn't he just! I only wish he had. I'd ha' given him such a oner.
He turned hastily to the Times, and threw his eyes over the summary of the debate. It was acrimonious and sneery.
She had played it at her last music-lesson... dear old Stroodie walking up and down the long drilling-room.... "Steady the bass"; "grip the chords," then standing at her side and saying in the thin light sneery part of his voice, "You can... you've got hands like umbrellas"... and showing her how easily she could stretch two notes beyond his own span.
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