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Then he added vindictively, "The old fool!" although, of course, the drive was not his personal concern. Only Orde seemed to see the other side. And on Orde the responsibility, uncertainty, and vexation had borne most heavily, for the success of the undertaking was in his hands. With a few quick leaps he had gained the old man's side. "Look here, Reed," he said kindly, "you can't break this jam.

"Never mind, Betty," she added soothingly. "You will get used to it in time." "Amy, you're the only sane one in that crowd," cried Grace in desperation. "Will you kindly explain what those two lunatics are talking about if they know themselves!" This last was uttered so vindictively that the girls came down from rhetorical heights with a bounce.

He went on vindictively snatching up to drive home his thrust the sharpest and cruelest weapon he could conceive, "Perhaps you find you are too old?" At this she looked away from him for an instant, up to the lower branches of the oak under which they stood. She seemed to reflect, and when she brought her eyes back to his, she answered, "Yes, I think that is it. I find I am too old."

My sincere and unchangeable opinion is, that few men ever lived, who, if they had been masters of the same boundless power that Napoleon was, would not have made much more cruel and more arbitrary tyrants than he ever did, and have exercised it more vindictively against the liberties of mankind than he did.

There's no accountin' for these vi'lent affections, but they're human natur', and they have to be 'umoured." "I'll talk to your master," rejoined the colonel, restraining his indignation and turning away. Turner looked after him vindictively. "He'll talk to my master, like as if I was a nigger! It'll be a long time before he talks to Fetters, if that's who he means if I can prevent it.

Oh, Beale, don't say that Edwin has been hurt? Where is he? Oh, poor Edwin!" "Having something to say to the missis " "If Bob has bitten him I hope he had his nose well scratched," said Mrs. Ukridge vindictively. "Having something to say to the missis," resumed the Hired Retainer tranquilly, "I went into the kitchen ten minutes back. The cat was sitting on the mat."

She felt Carmela dragging her onward, irresistibly, vindictively. She saw, as through a mist, David Verity's fiery-hued face, and heard his harsh accents. Yes, there was no mistake. Here was Bootle transported to Brazil, Linden House to Las Flores! "By gum, lass," he was bellowing, with a touch of real sentiment in his voice, "you've given us a rare dance afore we caught up wi' you.

Often a grassy plain in California, is what it should be, but often, too, it is best contemplated at a distance, because although its grass blades are tall, they stand up vindictively straight and self-sufficient, and are unsociably wide apart, with uncomely spots of barren sand between.

"Oh, perhaps you've got his yarn already?" "It all depends what he said to you." "Well, he hinted things. Unless I'm greatly mistaken, you'll soon be making an arrest." "I believe I could put my hand on the murderer this very minute," said Robinson vindictively. Elkin laughed, somewhat half-heartedly. "Lay you fifty to one against the time," he said.

He started to his feet, loosed the sword in its scabbard; but the Lincolnshire man had his halberd across the gateway. 'Pass! Shew thy pass! he said vindictively. 'I go but to meet him, Poins snarled. 'A good lie; thou goest not, Hogben answered. 'No Englishman goes into the French lands without a pass from the lord controller. An thou keepest a shut head I can e'en keep a shut gate.

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