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"I'm sure I apologise, sir," she said with a half-doubtful courtesy and much tact, "but one can't be too careful with all these trampseses about; I never should have thought from the look of you, sir, how as you was the new squire." This might be candid, but it was not flattering, and it caused Beatrice to snigger behind her handkerchief in true school-girl fashion.
The clerks meanwhile had a subject for conversation which kept their tongues wagging in an undertone, to the neglect of their work. 'The new lady-clerk! Who would have believed it? And she gave me her card for all the world like a duchess. Here there was a snigger, and one of his fellow-clerks asked how duchesses gave their cards.
There was a faint snigger in court. "Where were you educated?" persisted the Rector. "Am I bound to incriminate myself, sir?" "Incriminate?" said the General suddenly interested. "Eh? you mean, after a good education. I see. No, of course you're not, my lad." "Thank you, sir." "And you plead guilty? And you'd like the case dealt with now?" "If you please, sir."
"Oh, that's how 'e goes on, Sir, sober as a judge you'd say, an' then nex' minnit 'e's on the floor aseein' blue devils an' pink serpients " "The man's dying while we talk, Sir," put in Dam, whose wrath was rising. The Sergeant and the Corporal ventured on a respectful snigger. "Bring me that lamp," said Captain Blake, and Trooper Bear raised it to his extended hand.
As we entered the room, the stranger rose, and, glancing in an embarrassed way from one of us to the other, suddenly broke out into an undeniable snigger. I looked at him sternly, and Thorndyke, quite unmoved by his indecorous behaviour, said in a grave voice: "Let me introduce you, Jervis; though I think you have met this gentleman before." "I think not," I said stiffly.
"Let us move on; we stop the way, and those idle lads are listening to us, and sniggering." "Sniggering!" exclaimed the gentle helpmate. "I should like to see those who presume for to snigger;" and as she spoke, she threw a look of defiance around her. Then, having thus satisfied her resentment, she prepared to obey, as no doubt she always did, her lord and master.
Rankin had tugged all the geniality out of his moustache, and his face was full of anxiety and gloom. Maddox tried hard not to snigger. He was not fond of Mrs. Herbert Rankin. And Rankin's chef continued to send forth his swift and fair creations. Rickman felt his forehead grow cold and damp. He leaned back and wiped it with his handkerchief. A glance passed between Maddox and Rankin. But old Mrs.
"He's round the corner," I heard Miss Sellars explain in a lower voice; and there followed a snigger. "He's a bit shy, ain't he?" suggested Mrs. Peedles in a whisper. "I've had enough of the other sort," was Miss Sellars' answer in low tones. "Ah, well; it's the shy ones that come out the strongest after a bit leastways, that's been my experience." "He'll do all right. So long."
'More honourable, 'nobler' all those are old-fashioned prejudices which I reject. Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable. I only understand one word: useful! You can snigger as much as you like, but that's so!" Pyotr Petrovitch laughed heartily. He had finished counting the money and was putting it away. But some of the notes he left on the table.
Shy and priggish, he continued to lead his lonely life. In his solitary walks along the Bund, there was no one to take his arm and snigger suggestions into his ear, and lead him into an open doorway where the suggestions could be carried out. He had come out to the East for a long term of years, and the prospect of these interminable years made his position worse.
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