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Joe Dance, answer to your name." "Ay, ay," came in a growl. "Dick Bannock." "Here." "Bill Billings." "What's left on me, mate." "Sam Grote." "Here, but ain't got no head." "Bob Stepney." "Here; and wish I warn't," came surlily out of the darkness. "Don't you be sarcy 'fore your orficers, Bob, or there may be a row," said Tom Fillot, sharply.
"I know that," I said, rather surlily, for my notch was not meant for the purpose he thought, and I knew the difference between a cypress and a sugar maple. "Den what for cut um tree?" "To see whether the water is rising or going down." "Not do nuffum," said the boy, eagerly. "'Top so."
"Well, well, well," said the goat, surlily, "keep quiet and I'll carry you. But you make me very tired, Rinkitink, with your ceaseless chatter." After making this protest Bilbil began walking up the hill, carrying the fat King upon his back with no difficulty whatever.
I remarked, for his animal's sides were lathered with foam. "I was paid to ride fast!" he answered surlily; "my employer feared you would have started." "Started!" I echoed unsurprised, "whither?" "He did not confide in me," the fellow replied, "and I didn't ask; 'twould have been no use.
But before he could get out a word, Mirandolet spoke, seizing the mortuary-keeper by the arm in his eagerness. "You let that man a Japanese see the dead Chinaman alone?" he demanded. "Why, of course!" the attendant answered surlily. "He'd Mr. Ayscough's card, and " Mirandolet dropped the man's arm and threw up his own long white hands. "Merciful Powers!" he vociferated.
At last he put his hand surlily into his waistcoat pocket and pulled out a shilling. There were sixpennyworth of halfpence in the hat. "I'll take these halfpence," said he, "and here's a shilling for you." "I am afraid it is not good, sir," said the lad, whose business it was to examine the money for his master. "I am afraid, then, you'll get no other," said young Case, with an insulting laugh.
Gradually the truth dawned upon Farwell, and his thin face flushed, while in his heart he pitied Theodora Glenn and Priscilla. "I wish I'd kept to my first ideas!" Glenn was saying surlily, "and never let the limb learn of you or another. I gave her her head and here we are!" "Had she been taught regularly by some one better fitted than I she would have done great credit to you.
The old money-lender, I declare. By Jove! an exquisite thing! Admirably hit off! you have caught the old fellow's eyes to perfection. One would almost swear you had transplanted them from the head to the picture. They look out of the canvass. "'We'll see how they look in the fire, said my father surlily, making a movement to thrust the picture into the grate.
Next morning I heard this gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then letting fall an imprecation or two just about the time he ought to have been saying his morning prayers. "What is the matter, sir?" said I softly. "Is anything amiss?" "What's the matter?" answered he surlily; "why, the vampires have been sucking me to death."
The agent turned surlily away, but the Squire looked at both with an unmistakable eagerness. "There's no doubt whatever that Oliver fell from the parapet," said Copplestone. "The marks of a fall are there quite unmistakably." Greyle nodded, but made no remark, and the two made their way through the still eager crowd and went down to the village post-office.
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