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"What the devil is it in us Varicks that set folk whispering and snickering and nudging one another? Am I parti-colored, like an Oneida at a scalp-dance? Does Harry wear bat's wings for ears? Are Dorothy's legs crooked, that they all stare?" "It's your red head," observed Cecile. "The good folk think to see the noon-sun setting in the wood " "Oh, tally! you always say that," snapped Ruyven.
Frog, the tailor, is always staring at me in the oddest fashion and snickering as if he saw something that amused him." "Don't worry about that simpleton!" Mrs. Bobolink cried. "You look a great deal better than he does. And as for your voices, there's really no comparison. Yours is one of the finest in Pleasant Valley; but Ferdinand Frog's is nothing but a croak. It's even worse than old Mr.
When he discovers me, he pauses, and with one paw on his heart appears to press a button, that lets off a flood of snickering, explosive sounds that seem like ridicule of me and my work. Failing to get any response from me, he presently turns, and, springing from the wall to the bending branch of a near apple-tree, he rushes up and disappears amid the foliage.
In the white tiled Roman bathroom, the muddy circles suddenly out and angry beneath her eyes, her mother was standing before one of the full-length mirrors snickering. There was a fresh little grave on the inside of her right fore arm. Sometimes in the weeks that followed, a sense of the miracle of what was happening would clutch at Alma's throat like a fear. Louis did not know.
Them statements of Shorty's set the boys to snickering some more there not being no ford on the Rio Grande this side of La Chamita, and the wagon-bridge being down back of the deepo where he said his ford was but Shorty paid no attention, and went on as smooth as if he was speaking a piece he'd got by heart.
William, who was one of the group around the bed, advanced and began to sing. The audience ceased its snickering after the first few words to listen intently. To many it was a beloved song; they could forget the incongruous surroundings in the sweet memories it recalled, and to others it appealed, as many old-world songs do, by its plaintive sweetness. William was making a hit, and he knew it.
He has named every one of those stuffed animals for somebody in politics he doesn't like, and leads a snickering mob of sight-seers around the room and lectures. When a state officer names a saucer-eyed Canadian lynx for me and then folks come up from that basement and grin at me, it's time a halt was called." His Excellency called for Breed and called a halt, using forceful language.
It was a long look, of suffering, of love, of pride, of unyielding resolve. Then he lifted my hand to his lips, bowed, and left me. I sat staring over the garden. I wondered if, somewhere on the other side of things, Great-Aunt Sophronisba wasn't snickering. "My faith, but I'm glad you're entirely well again, Sophy!" wrote The Author, in his small, fine, hypercritical script.
Maybe they are. Maybe that's why. Anyway, it makes you feel like a book agent." He sounded excited and tired. "Now, father!" said Mrs. Brewster, soothingly. The building was what is known as a studio apartment, in the West Sixties. The corridors were done in red flagstones, with grey-tone walls. The metal doors were painted grey. Pinky was snickering.
But if you ever find out for sure that he is going to going to to shelve you, why, come to me, and I'll go to him. I think he would be a skunk to to shelve you. And I don't see that that that he was any more fairce to hug and kiss than than some others. Than you!" "Or you," said she, sort of snickering through her tears. "I hated it!" I said. "So did I," said she.
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