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His eye had conveyed a dreadful promise of complicity. Almost I would have given worlds to know, and yet I dared not face it almost it had been essaying a wink! I dismissed him with instructions not very coherent, I fear to give the girl a talking-to, and sat down to think.
I contrived to put it in the boy's own box, so that the whole affair should appear to have been only a trick, and then I gave the culprit a very serious talking-to. He never did anything of the sort again, and died an honourable man and a good officer, only three months ago, in India.
"I hope you gave him a good talking-to," she said. "Of course I did," he answered; "but it was of no use. I see exactly how it is. He gave me a full and circumstantial account of the affair, filling up all the gaps, it is true, but going only just as far as the newspapers supplied the skeleton. How he got away, for instance, he could not tell me. And now nothing will serve him but confess it!
I made them go down and confess to him this morning and take his property back with them, and, judging from their crestfallen looks ever since, I fancy they have had a talking-to that they won't forget in a hurry. So they have been well punished, and Tommy has been wired to to come home at once, so he has been punished. And Hilary's punishment here is to come.
Perhaps that about the lamp was a hint for him to go; but he did not see exactly how he could go till 'Manda Grier came back; he felt that it would not be polite. "Well, there!" said Statira, as if she divined his feeling. I shall give 'Manda Grier a good talking-to. I'm awfully afraid we're keeping you, Mr. Barker." "Not at all," said Lemuel; "I'm afraid I'm keeping you."
She accompanied him to the front gate, and as he passed out she said "You have not given Tom notice?" "No, my dear, not yet. It would be a little inconvenient at present. I COULD do without him easily, even now; but perhaps it will be better to wait. Besides, he is a little more teachable after the talking-to I have given him." Mr. Furze signed his letters.
But it was not a time for mirth: we were all too sad, and Barkins contented himself with whispering "I say, I'm jolly glad it wasn't I who said that. Don't the skipper take it coolly now? But he'll give old Dishy a talking-to for it when he gets him alone."
"You may be a monthly nurse for all I care, but you've got to answer when you're called, or else I'll get the bailiff to give you a talking-to. Do you understand?" "Yes, oh yes! Mr. Pupil must excuse me, but I didn't hear." "Well, will you please remember that Aspasia's not to go out to pasture to-morrow." "Is she going to calve?" "Yes, of course! Did you think she was going to foal?"
He folded his arms magnificently. Pamela laughed excitedly, and shook her head. 'Oh, no, father, you won't be a hero only a laughing-stock! That's what Desmond minds so much. They won't send you to prison. Some tiresome old Judge will give you a talking-to in Court, and you won't be able to answer him back. And then they'll fine you and we shall be a little more boycotted than we were before!
"She she saw that you seemed to be getting fond of me, and she " "She would!" "Said some rather horrid things that hurt," said Eve, in a low voice. Peter crossed over to where she sat and took her hand. "Don't you worry about her," he said. "She's not a bad sort really, but about once every six months she needs a brotherly talking-to, or she gets above herself.
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