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He remained there for some moments without speaking, carefully examining every corner of the compartment. The two men on the seats drew their wraps about them and shivered, until at length one said rather testily "Get in, sir; kindly get in if you're coming on, please. This draught is most unpleasant!"
Vanna, blank and smiling, La Testolina with wandering, fearful eyes, followed. They found the prior sitting well back in his ebony chair and in meditation, his chin buried in his hand. He looked the prior's reproach, and was. "Now, women," said the prior, testily a fat and flabby old man with a sour mouth "now, women, which of you is at the bottom of this accursed business? Where is the baby?
"`But, ~nom du nom~, I cried testily, `you've just come from England, my boy. "`They SAID it was England, said my imbecile, conspiratorially. `They said it was Kent. But Kentish men are such liars one can't believe anything they say. "`Monsieur, I said, `you must pardon me. I am elderly, and the ~fumisteries~ of the young men are beyond me.
Henry, while he testily maintained to Alexander that he had done all he promised, and no further claim could be established against him, yet, as history shows, never to the last hour pardoned Hubert de Burgh for his marriage with the Scottish Princess, and most bitterly reproached him for depriving him of her whom he had intended to make his Queen.
"There will be only two weeks more and then I can begin to get about. When there is no head matters go loosely enough." "But I am sure Andrew is capable. He hath been trained under thine own eye. And Penn is steady and trusty." "But a dozen young things cannot supply the master's place," he returned testily. "And one almost feels as if the evil one hath gotten in his handiwork as he did on Job."
"Reddy, Reddy, smart and sly, Couldn't catch a buzzing fly!" taunted Peter. "Chug-a-rum!" said Grandfather Frog in his deepest, gruffest voice. "We know all about that. What we want to know is what Little Joe Otter has got on his mind." "It's news great news!" cried Little Joe. "We can tell better how great it is when we hear what it is," replied Grandfather Frog testily. "What is it?"
Darcy raised his small blue eyes with their thick lashes, and took a look at his judge. There was a gabbled interchange of Irish between him and the interpreter. "He says she could not, yer worship, nor as much as one perch." "Ah, what nonsense is this!" said Mr. Heraty testily; "didn't I see the woman meself at Mass last Sunday?"
"How can you know anything about it?" he asked, testily; "from your own account he has told you nothing except that he has been in a hospital and a casual ward they have plenty of cases of delirium tremens in both places. Good heavens! and I thought Dr. Luttrell was a sensible man. This is the way he takes care of his wife and child, harbouring a frozen-out tramp." "Dear Mr.
"What can Jud be thinking of?" he muttered somewhat testily, stepping along to slip the bolt in its place, but the next instant his eyes fell upon two dark bundles huddled at the horse's feet, and with a startled exclamation he bent over to examine his find, just as Faith burst in through the door behind him, crying, "They must have left the house, grandpa, because the back hall door is unlocked and the storm-door is swinging."
'Well, the editor went on, a little testily, 'be that as it may, I won't discuss the subject with your friend Le Breton, who's really a nice, enthusiastic young fellow, I think, as far as I've seen him. I'll simply let him write to-night whatever he pleases, and make the necessary alterations in proof afterwards, without talking it over with him personally at all.
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