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Great-uncle Thomas and Uncle Tom were persons to be avoided, stout, heavy, bullet-headed, bull-necked, throat-clearing men, loud nose-blowers, loud soup-eaters, who reeked of tobacco when it was my horrid duty to kiss them, and who addressed me in jocular terms when they remembered my existence, of which I was always loth to remind them. With these two horrors, whom she loved, Aunt Emmy lived.
There was a step, and a throat-clearing cough behind him. "Monsieur de Tressan," said a woman's voice, a rich, melodious voice, if haughty and arrogant of intonation. On the instant he turned, advanced a step, and bowed. "Your humblest servant, madame," said he, his hand upon his heart. "This is an honour which " "Which necessity thrusts upon you," she broke in imperiously. "Dismiss that fellow."
And then, with a little throat-clearing pause to come between: "Damn it, suh; an own brotheh couldn't have done'mo'! I I've been misjudgin' you, Caleb, all these yeahs, and now I'm proud to shake you by the hand and call you my friend. Yes, suh, I am that!"
The intermittent sounds now a cough, now a horrible wheezing or throat-clearing, now a little patter of conversation were just, he declared, what you hear if you stand in the lion-house when the bones are being mauled.
Take it for any extra trouble you may have to satisfy me." A pause the clinking of coin. I reckon that would be about fair. 'Tain't every man ez hez your grip. He! he! Ef ye hadn't took me so suddent like he! he! well! how about that ar whiskey?" Steps, silence, coughing, spitting, and throat-clearing from the stranger. Steps again, and the click of glass. Ye know what I mean! Thar now don't, Mr.
Before we were far gone with food the attention of this tactful person was torn from me by our hostess, whose voice was heard above the other voices: "Oh, Mr. Slicer, do tell us your experience. I want all our friends to hear it." Mr. Slicer, identifiable by the throat-clearing look which suffused his bleached, conservative face, was not deaf to her appeal.
Skinner's calm cold features refused to thaw, however, under the heat of his employer's enthusiasm, seeing which Cappy slid out to the edge of his chair and gazed contemplatively at Skinner over the rims of his spectacles. "Hum-m-m!" he said. The very tempo of that throat-clearing should have warned Mr.
Dressed in his night kimono of light blue silk, he passes along the veranda in the direction of the morning ablutions. Soon the rending sounds of throat-clearing show that he has begun his wash. Three maids appear as by magic in the vacated room. The bed is rolled away, the matting swept, and the master's morning clothes are laid out ready for him on his return. Mrs.
No one listened to Babbitt's bulletins about the February weather or to his throat-clearing comments on the headlines. He said furiously, "If I may be PERMITTED to interrupt your engrossing private CONVERSATION Juh hear what I SAID?" "Oh, don't be a spoiled baby! Ted and I have just as much right to talk as you have!" flared Mrs. Babbitt.
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