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"Why, Bob, where'd you come from?" she exclaimed, setting the kettle down and kissing him. "I looked for grandfather and Uncle Joe when I got off the bus in town, but I couldn't see them anywhere, so I walked out," he replied. "Why, I'm sure they expected to meet you, Bob," she replied, "but the roads are so rough, I suppose they were late.
"Where'd you get that rose?" inquired Mike, bending to inhale its fragrance. "Mrs. Brady give it to me." "Mother would think it was pretty," with a glance at his older brother. "And she shall have it," said Pat. "But them boards won't do. I've bought some cheap ones at the lumber yard, and they're on the way. And here's the nails.
"Half-hour slow!" cried Mandeville, reading it. "But have you heard noth ?" "Nothingg!" roared Mandeville. "Where'd you leave him?" sharply asked Kincaid. His cousin put on great dignity: "At his door, my dear sir, waiting for the cab I sent him." "Oh, sent!" cried half the group. "Steve," called Kincaid, "your horse is fresh "
Betty kept close to Amy, for she knew just how she must feel after the disclosure. "Ah, good afternoon, ladies!" greeted Percy. "Wonderful weather we're having. My word!" "Beastly beautiful!" mocked the irrepressible Mollie. "Horribly lovely, isn't it, what?" "Oh, I say now," began Percy. "I really " "Where'd you get the clothes?" broke in Will. "They're a London importation."
The key turned in the lock, and State Senator Nathaniel Billings appeared in the doorway, with a look of polite inquiry on his convivial face. This expression, when he saw Austen, changed to something like consternation. "Why, hello, hello," said the senator. "Come in, come in. The Honourable Hilary's here. Where'd you come down?" "Hello, Nat," said Austen, and went in.
"Sort of," was the answer. "That looks like stuff from home; doesn't it!" and he threw on the table some crumpled and rather stained thousand franc notes. "Suffering shrapnel!" cried Bob. "The prize money!" "Where'd you get it?" "Did Max have it?" "How'd you get it away from him?" "How is he?" "One at a time, please!" laughed Jimmy.
Ann gave a little scream and shrank closer to Rudolf. The creature opened a wide mouth that showed enormous, ugly, yellow teeth, and said in a rough but not unfriendly voice: "Hullo! Oats-and-Broadswords if it's not a couple of lost colts! Where'd you come from, youngsters?"
"Better row round to the west'ard a little, when you get to Fishback," said he, "it's kinder choppy on this side sometimes, an' if my boat got all stove to pieces on the rocks 'fore you got ashore, why, where'd I be?" "You would be right here," said Mr. Daddles; "where do you think we'd be?" "You? Oh, huh! Yes, that's so.
"Beat it!" rasped the officer roughly, "or I'll hullo, what you got here? Open your hand!" he gave a sharp twist as he spoke, the Flopper's fingers uncurled, and the money dropped into the policeman's other hand held conveniently below the Flopper's. "It's mine gimme it back," whined the Flopper. "Yours! Yours, is it!" growled the officer. "Where'd you get it? Stole it, eh?
"I began to suspect that, Tom, and I want to say that you are wrong. Mr. Hardley is a friend of mine a good friend. I have not known him long, but he strikes me as being all right. He had some good letters of introduction, and I believe he has money." "Where'd he get it?" asked Tom. "I don't know, exactly. Seems to me I heard him mention silver mines, or it may have been gold.
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