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There was an interval of silence, then Ed exclaimed, testily, "What are you looking at?" "I wondered what you'd say." "Eh? Can't I fire a man without a long-winded explanation?" Something in Alaire's expression warned him of her suspicion; therefore he took refuge behind an assumption of anger. "My God! Don't I have a word to say about my own ranch?
"What did you give him?" he inquired abruptly. "Only a little laudanum." "Only, indeed! it's all trash together, and that's the worst kind of trash you could have given him. Humph!" and the old gentleman jerked his shoulders testily. "How much did yon give him?" said the senior clerk, who had entered the apartment with Harry a few minutes before.
Of course she has means, and he likes to do everything well." "Speaking for myself," said Harding, "I have always held that a man's career rests rather on his genius than his marriage." "But you, my dear fellow," put in Lord Garrow, testily, "you retired from political life because your theories could find no illustration there." "Pardon me," said Sir Piers, with a grim laugh.
"Damn it all! I'm not obliged to go there, am I?" Heneage exclaimed testily. Wrayson looked at him in amazement. Heneage, as a rule, was one of the most deliberate and even-tempered of men. "Of course not," he answered. "You won't mind telling me how the Colonel is, though, will you?" "I believe he is very well," Heneage answered, more calmly. "He doesn't come up to town so often this hot weather.
Once or twice they heard the clashing of arms or of iron instruments of some sort, and it seemed to them that the noise was occasioned by the accidental jostling together of those who carried them. At length they heard one voice exclaim rather testily. "D n your blood, Bartle Flanagan, will you have patience till I get my shoe out o' the mud you don't expect me to lose it, do you?
To-day there are two catbirds, Elle et Lui, and the first Johnny Wren is inspecting the particular row of cottages that top the long screen of honeysuckles back of the walk named by Richard Wren Street. Why is the song sparrow calling "Dick, Dick!" so lustily and scratching so testily in the leaves that have drifted under an old rose shrub?
"I'm afraid you will have to wait some time," said Helen, with a smile. "Humph! yes, I suppose so," said the doctor gruffly. "That barber ought to be flogged. Couldn't put the boy in a wig, of course." "O papa! no." "Well, I said no," cried the doctor testily. "Must wait, I suppose; but we can make him look decent." "Are you are you going " faltered Helen. "Going? Going where!"
"Hair-powder is as bad as snuff," said Mary, preferring the former subject; "there's old Mr. Butler of Cooling, his wig is so large and full of powder that when he nods his head I am sure to sneeze." "Ah, but all these are accidents, young lady," said Mr. Malcolm, put out by this block to the conversation, and running off somewhat testily in another direction; "accidents after all.
"Recommend a hotel, at Benton where I'm going. There is a hotel, I suppose?" "Good Lord!" he exclaimed testily. "In a city of three thousand people? A hotel? A dozen of 'em, but I don't know their names. What do you expect to find in Benton? You're from the East, I take it. Going out on spec', or pleasure, or health?" "I have been advised to try Western air for a change," I answered.
Gaston laughed, not wishing him to take the thing at all seriously. He continued airily: "It would be amusing if the property went with the title after all, wouldn't it, sir?" Sir William got to his feet and said testily: "That should never be while I lived!" "Of course not, sir." Sir William saw the bull, and laughed, heartily for him. They bade each other good-night.
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