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He invited me to join him and when I refused seemed to find amusement in twitting me about my abstemious habits. "Come along now, just a nip of brandy, Roger. 'Twill make your blood flow a bit faster. No? Why not, old Dry-as-dust? Conscientious scruples? A dram is as good as three scruples. Come along, just a taste." "Brandy was made for old dotards and young idiots. I'm neither."
"Ben wanted it, and I don't. I hate it, and I don't want to go back." "Don't want to go back?" repeated Mrs. Fisher in dismay. "No, I don't. The fellows are always twitting me, and every one gets ahead of me, and I'm everlastingly staying in from ballgames to make up lessons, and I'd like to fire the books, I would," cried Joel with venom. Mrs.
"That was a rather hard thrust, my dear," remarked Edward, laughing, as he led the way into their dressing-room; "not quite polite, I'm afraid." "I don't care if it wasn't!" said Zoe. "She is always twitting me on my extreme youth." "Sour grapes," he said lightly: "she will never see twenty-five again, and would give a great deal for your youth.
"I don't like it," said Scrooge. "I thought you wouldn't. There are a great many people who don't like it. It's a twitting on facts that takes away a good deal of the pleasure of being generous." "I should say it did," grumbled Scrooge. "It makes you feel mean just when you are most sensitive.
"Where," she inquired politely, "is the money for all this to come from?" "Eileen," said Linda in a low tense voice, "I have reached the place where even the BOYS of the high school are twitting me about how I am dressed, and that is the limit. I have stood it for three years from the girls. I am an adept in pretending that I don't see, and I don't hear.
But the Amal, who, luckily for the students, had not understood a word of this conversation, seized her arm, asking if she were mad. 'No, no! panted she, inarticulate with passion. 'Give me gold every coin you have. These wretches are twitting me with what they gave me before before oh Amal, you understand me? And she clung imploringly to his arm. 'Oh!
Each man bore the stamp of competence on his face, and there was no cheap talk of the "well-informed" variety. When the members spoke seriously they spoke like experts; otherwise they were apt to joke very much like schoolboys let loose. The Right Hon. Mr. M was not above twitting Lord S with gunroom stories, and suffering in turn good-natured libel.
Shea had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention to the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the mentally defective a theory that is lightly ignored upon those rare occasions that I win.
"Perfectly," replied Mr. Pantin, calmly. "I've passed the stage when I talk to make conversation." "But think how she's been criticised!" Mr. Pantin got up impatiently. "Oh, you virtuous dames " Mrs. Pantin's thin lips went shut like a rat-trap. "Abram, are you twitting me?" Mr. Pantin ignored the accusation, and observed astutely: "I presume you've done your share of talking, and that's why "
And at another time, twitting me with my phrases, that the man was above controul, who wanted not either to borrow or flatter.
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