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Mr. Sawyer dived absently into his coat pockets. "We'll miss that train as sure as Where in the nation's that pipe o' mine got to?" He rummaged despairingly. "Oh, I forgot! Susan Winters said I wasn't to take it, for fear the smoke might be bad for the orphant's eyes. D'ye think it would, Harriet?" he inquired, wistfully. "Tuts!" she cried, disdainfully, "not a bit.
"Then I am to understand," asked Gavin, slyly, "that your locket came into your possession in your pre-smoking days, and that you merely wear it from habit?" "Tuts!" answered the doctor, buttoning his coat. "I told you there was nothing in the locket. If there is, I have forgotten what it is." "You are a hopeless old bachelor, I see," said Gavin, unaware that the doctor was probing him.
The younger man looked at his friend with mingled admiration and impatience in his eyes. "Lookee here, John, you're far too easy. You take a warning in time, and don't let that sneak get his claws any further into your wool than you can help. I'd shut off every bit of dealings with him. He's as sharp as a weasel. Don't you forget that he's got a hold on you already." "Tuts! That's nothing.
"I hope," she said, "that you have not done anything hasty." "Tuts!" said Kezia, "I hope he has. He was far too slow before he went away. Make love in haste; marry at leisure that's the right way." "Can I have the essay that you read us last April, on the origin of woman?" asked Keren-happuch unexpectedly. "You won't want it any more, and I should like it."
"'Tuts, tuts, that will be all right, for I hef maybe got some six or five notes of my own that were profit on the beasties; but it iss a pity not to be taking anything that iss handy when a body happens to be in the south." "Capital." Kate laughed merrily, and her too rare laugh I used to think the gayest I ever heard. "It was the only opportunity left him of following his fathers.
Here Harrie laughed, and gave Dunce a lash that quite discomposed his pony faculties, and made Brian scream with delight. "And what did your husband say?" "Say? Nothing. "And what did you say?" "Likewise nothing. I just jumped on his knee, and took him round the neck, and But that isn't of the slightest consequence to anybody. Tuts! On with you, Dunce!"
She had got no invitation to the Sheriff's, and yet here was the hint of some convivial gathering such as she and her brothers had hitherto always been welcome to. "What do you think it will be, John?" she asked the Paymaster, telling him what she had seen. "Tuts," said he, "they'll just be out of dips.
If she takes to young Torode while I'm away it's because she likes him best." "And she, Carette, what did she say to it?" "She didn't say anything." "Tuts! How did she look, boy? A girl tells more with her face and her eyes than with her tongue, even when they say opposite things." "I'm not sure how she took it, Aunt Jeanne. How would you have taken it, now?" "Ma fé!
"Saw 'something'?" he repeated gruffly. "What do you mean?" "It looked like a man, sir, and it seemed to move into the trees almost as quick as we saw it!" "Tuts!" muttered Simon. "But there was two friends of ours meeting us in the road," she hurried on, "and they thought they saw a man going in at the gate!" Her master seemed a little more impressed. "Indeed?" said he.
Butter's Spellings nor Murray the Grammarian, but some trash of a novelle. Any exercise for your kind but the appointed task! I wish I wish Tuts! laddie, you are wet to the skin, haste ye home and get a heat."
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