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And as soon as she had no breath left with which to answer him, he said, "My little daughter got riches for soft words, but yours were always rough of the tongue. And it's not my fault, anyhow, for you yourself sent them into the forest." Well, at last the old woman got her breath again, and scolded away till she was tired out.
Not in a hotel, mebbe, but in one of these musical shows where no money has been spared. The lady had a glorious two days ordering these girls round as head waiter and seeing that everybody got a good square look at her, and so on. But the other girls got tired the second day.
Leonard was getting tired of waiting when he received his summons to Normanstand. But despite his impatience he was ill pleased with the summons, which came in the shape of a polite note from Miss Rowly asking him to come that afternoon at tea-time. He had expected to hear from Stephen. 'Damn that old woman!
Then, knowing that the bird of prey is to be feared when he occupies a more elevated position from which he can throw himself on them, they endeavour to remain always above him. They mount higher and higher. The enemy seeks to pass them, but they mount still, until at last the Hobby, heavier, and little accustomed to this rarefied air, grows tired and gives up the pursuit.
"I think I have a better suggestion than that," put in Mrs. Irving, speaking for the first time. "I think we had better wait for a short time before we do anything. The sheep will probably get tired in a little while and wander off of their own accord." "Oh, all right," said Mollie, with rather bad grace as she seated herself on a convenient rock.
But I was ill, am ill now, and here have I been running about all day on your brother's behalf, and dead tired and ill, and all and you won't let me have a rest in the carriage " "Well, as you put it in that way..." she said. So they walked to a motor-brougham, sat within, and as they commenced to talk again, the brougham moved.
I did not feel bound to defend our customs, and I knew very well that each woman there was imagining herself in our conditions with the curse of her plutocratic tradition still upon her. They could not do otherwise, any of them, and they seemed to get tired of such effort as they did make. Mrs.
"Please tell me, Thyrsis!" "He said my book wouldn't sell, because the public had got tired of that sort of thing." "That sort of thing!" "It seems that people used to buy 'historical romances', and now they've stopped. The man actually thought my book was one of that kind!" "I see. But then couldn't you tell him?" "I told him.
It was he who fairly dragged Lady Agnes aside and proposed the banquet, the dance, the concert everything and it was he who carried out the hundred spasmodic instructions that she gave. Late in the night, long after the dinner and the dance, the tired but happy company flocked to the picturesque hanging garden for rest and the last refreshment.
It was so pleasing to see them that the pieces of ice even danced about; and when they were tired and went to lie down, they formed themselves into the letters of the word which the Snow Queen had said he must find out before he could be his own master, and have the whole world and a pair of new skates.
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