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Wennys to Clovelly and the green car's nose had been set in quite a different direction. "She's fixed up to go out with me this afternoon," he said slowly. "Tch!" Kitty clicked her tongue sharply against her teeth and, crossing to the chimneypiece, took down a letter which, was resting there. "I'd forgotten this! She left it to be given to you when you called for her this afternoon.
She confirmed this, and let her solemn eyes rest on him wondering why he was so red and fidgety and uncomfortable. The woman said: "Tch, tch, tch!" at the length of the journey Laura was undertaking, and Peter, growing still redder, volunteered another remark. "I was nigh to bein' in Melb'm once meself," he said.
"No only French; German is so difficult." "Tch! tch! tch! How lazy you English are! We all speak English. As for me, my mother was English you could not tell that I was not born an Englishman?" Apart from his appearance and guttural r's, this claim was justified. "I suppose you made lots of friends on board ship?" "Yes, a good many."
She had, besides, grip and rhythm, and long, close-knit hands insinuated themselves artfully among the complicated harmonies. When she began to play, Madeleine made "Tch, tch, tch!" and shook her head, in despair of now ever being rid of them. Krafft remained standing behind the piano at the window leaning his forehead on the glass.
You want it. Take it and let me begone." "Yes, I want it; and by all the gods of Hind I'll have it but safely. Ah! It would be fine to proclaim myself when mutiny and rebellion stalk about. Am I a pig to play a game like that? Tch! Tch!" He clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth in derision. "No; I need a buckler till all this roily water subsides and clears."
"And while she's here she may bring the water and the glasses as well," snarled the master of the house, who had run a flaming eye over the table. "Tch, tch, tch!" said Mrs. Shepherd, with so little spirit that Laura felt quite sorry for her. "REALLY, Maisie!" said Miss Isabella. "And when the poor boy's so rushed, too."
In a fourth, intermarriage had almost completely done its work, and the old Finnish element could be detected merely in certain peculiarities of physiognomy and pronunciation.* * One of the most common peculiarities of pronunciation is the substitution of the sound of ts for that of tch, which I found almost universal over a large area.
Uncle Matthew had said that he broke the window as a protest against a counterjumper's traffic in a nation's grief. "I loved the Queen, sir," he said, "and I couldn't bear to see her death treated like that!" This was more than the Magistrates could endure, and the Resident Magistrate made an impatient gesture and said, "Tch, tch, tch!" with his tongue against his palate.
Boxer, putting his hand over his mouth and making noble efforts to restrain himself; "tchee tch "I s'pose you'd ha' laughed more if I 'ad been bit?" said the glaring Mrs. Gimpson. "Well, who did the dog bite after all?" inquired Mr. Boxer, recovering. "You don't understand," replied Mrs. Gimpson, pityingly; "me being safe up in bed and the door locked, there was no mad dog.
He shook his head. "Tch, tch! Quel dommage-what a pity!" he sighed, and putting down the picture undressed slowly, blew out the lamp, and went to bed. On a Saturday morning at the end of June, Mary stood by the gate of the Byrdsnest, looking down the lane. McEwan, who was taking a whole holiday from the office, had offered to fetch her mail from the village. Any moment he might be back.
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