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Patterson contemptuously, "that she's got anything but what that man of hers Poindexter lets her have?" "The sheriff says," retorted Patterson surlily, "that she's notified him that she claims the rancho as a gift from her husband three years ago, and she's in POSSESSION now, and was so when the execution was out.
"Good-night, Peter," called out Heidi, as she saw he had no intention of stopping to speak. "Good-night, Peter," called out Clara in a friendly voice. Peter took no notice and went surlily on with his goats. As Clara saw the grandfather leading away Little Swan to milk her, she was suddenly taken with a longing for another bowlful of the fragrant milk, and waited impatiently for it.
"Time, too," returned Keller easily. "If anybody asks you, tell them I usually eat breakfast some before ten o'clock." "You'll do yore eating from now on when I give the word," his guard answered surlily. He was a big, dark man with a grouch, one who took his duties sourly. Not by any stretch of imagination could he be considered a brilliant conversationalist.
All these considerations tended greatly to impair the temper of Master Parson this beautiful morning. But the worst grievance of all was that he had to get up that moment and call Bloomfield, or else he'd get a licking. That would be worse any day than getting it on the hands from the doctor. So he kicked off the clothes surlily, and put one foot out of bed.
Steam rises in clouds from the tub where the old woman is washing. "Are we going?" Yegoritch asks surlily. My lodger does not answer. After his excitement he feels insufferably dreary. He struggles with the desire to drink, with acute depression and . . . and, of course, depression gets the best of it. It is a familiar story.
Nor does he like the bland patronising manner of 'Roopuarain, so he surlily draws back, at which there is a roar of laughter from the. crowd, in which we cannot help joining. K. now comes forward, and pats his 'fancy man' on the back.
"Yes," he said, surlily, "the young folks had a party, and got up a dance, and the minister was mad, and I don't blame him, he thinks nobody has any business to dance, unless he knows how better than they did!"
I couldn’t do it myself—I couldn’t, I couldn’t—not even for what I am afraid of.” She was confoundedly bizarre, he thought. She was beginning to inspire him with an indefinite uneasiness. He said surlily, for he was busy with important thoughts: “What the devil are you afraid of?” “Haven’t you guessed what I was driven to do!” cried the woman.
One would have sworn that Carroll was surprised at Barker's flare of anger or else that it had passed unnoticed. "I just figured that you, having been his valet, and knowing a good deal about him, would have knowledge of this." "He wasn't in the habit of discussin' his lady friends with me," growled the ex-valet surlily. "Of course he wasn't; but you know, of course? You guessed?"
"It isn't strange to me," said she simply, but without looking at him. "Of course, I can understand it," he went on. "I've always liked Sara. She's bully. Much too good for my brother, God rest his soul. He never " "Oh, don't utter a thing like that, even in jest," she cried, shocked by his glib remark. He flushed. "You didn't know Challis," he said almost surlily. She held her breath.
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