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"They're occupied by two sick men, one drunk hear him snore? and one she-goat which is kidding." "Huh?" Tim snorted, suspiciously. "I think ye're the one that's kiddin', Cap." "Not a bit. I looked. The last room on this side is the Dutchman's, and these are ours. Take your pick. They're all alike." Knowlton stepped to the nearest and looked in. For a moment he said no word.
"Is that the mail?" repeated Mrs. Coombe, coming up the walk. "No, there is no mail," said Esther, "No one has been to the post office. Perhaps Jane had better run down now." "But you had a letter," suspiciously. "I'm sure I saw it. Where is it?" "Don't be absurd, mother. I have no letter. Nor would I think it necessary to show it to you if I had. I am not a child." "You are a child.
Sit down and we will talk this matter over." Tad threw himself down beside the fire. Stacy still sat behind the rock, gazing suspiciously at their early morning visitor. "I demand to know the meaning of this scene," said the Professor sternly. "Let Mr. Darwood tell you," replied Butler. The gold digger made no answer. Tad turned to the Professor. "I will tell you what there is to it, sir. Mr.
'Six months mair or less, says she with a snap, eyeing me suspiciously. 'Well, here's for luck and a smarter man at the next time of asking, and with that I tossed down the ale, paid the reckoning, and strode out to the stable, for nothing further was to be got out of the vinegar lips of Mrs. Boniface.
She looked sharply and suspiciously at him. He repeated his words, and she perceived that there was meaning in them, and she felt uneasy. "I don't understand at all," she said; "Clara tells me that this house is mine. Now don't you know I don't intend to invite any but my own friends to visit me in my own house?" "That seems reasonable.
'But there is no such word, really, she urged, determined to clear up all she could. 'It rhymes that's all. 'And there is no verse or story, he replied with a sigh. 'There was that's all. There was another pause. Jimbo and Monkey looked round suspiciously. They ceased their mysterious whispering. They clearly did not wish the others to know what their confabulation was about.
Billy looked at her suspiciously. "Young woman, how'd you earn that money?" he demanded. "Socks! Bushels of socks, mostly," answered Lydia with a chuckle that ended in a groan. She looked at Billy whimsically and then as the sureness of his understanding came to her again, she told him the story of her little midnight sweatshop. "Oh, dearest!"
"We are trying to reach Kief, where we have friends," answered Mendel. "Please do not let us starve on the road." "Jews, eh?" asked the woman, suspiciously. "Well, no matter; you don't look any too happy. Come in and warm yourselves." The boys were soon sitting before a roaring kitchen-fire, while the woman busied herself with providing them with a meal.
"I tell you that I haven't seen the deed," said Betty firmly. "And I am equally certain that Bob never took it. He's the soul of honor, whatever you may think, and he would no more take what wasn't his than he would lie to you about it." Peabody caught hold of her right hand suddenly. "What you carrying?" he demanded suspiciously. "A trunk key?
People were apt to be wary of Tommy Fox when fine words dripped from his mouth like that. It usually meant that he was bent on some mischief. And now Grumpy Weasel looked at him suspiciously. "If you admire my clothes so much why don't you get some like them?" he demanded. Tommy Fox shook his head mournfully. "I'd like to," he said, "but I'm too humble a person to dress like a king, in ermine.
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