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Can't a woman take a little exercise without her family and friends coming snooping round and acting as if she'd broken the Ten Commandments?" "Breaking the Ten Commandments!" I said witheringly. "Breaking a leg more likely.
Phyllis was indignant. "Let you!" she said, witheringly; and she turned on the hapless tyrant at her side. "Now, don't you go putting on airs, just because you happen to have been in the Legion a little longer than some people. Of course, I'm going to speak to my friends. I don't care where they are or what they happen to be at the time, or who happens to think himself over them."
"How did you find out I was behind Ogilvy?" "Intuition. Then I accused you of it, and you admitted it." "I suppose you're going to tell your uncle now," he retorted witheringly. "On the contrary, I am not. I greatly fear I was born with a touch of sporting blood, Mr. Cardigan, so I'm going to let you two fight until you're exhausted, and then I'm going to step in and decide the issue.
'And not since, rejoined the other, shaking her head and smiling. 'No, not since? 'Thank Heaven, no! 'Then you are not very well able to judge this case. I, on the other hand, can judge it with the very largest understanding. Don't smile so witheringly, Rhoda. I shall neglect your advice for once. 'You will bring this girl back, and continue teaching her as before?
Pshaw!" he finished up witheringly, "you fellers ain't got shut o' last century." "Maybe we haven't," Tresler retorted, with a good-humored laugh; "but your enterprise has carried you so far ahead of time that you've overlapped. I tell you, man, you're back in the savage times. You're groping in the prehistoric periods Jurassic, Eocene, or some such."
With his coat of blue cloth, starched linen collar, and white gloves, he reminded me of anything but the policemen of my town. I addressed him in Yiddish, making it as near an approach to German as I knew how, but my efforts were lost on him. He shook his head. With a witheringly dignified grimace he then pointed his club in the direction of Broadway and strutted off majestically
Later on, Christian, in the pride of her first introduction to Tennyson, had been inspired by his high shoulders and black tailed coat to entitle him "The many-wintered crow," and the name was welcomed by her fellows, and registered in the repository of phrases and nicknames that exists in all well-regulated families. "'Fie!" he repeated after Mrs. Dixon, witheringly. "I declare before God, Mrs.
This was a crusher in that company, where riding stood high above any literary attainment; for the other had been a failure as a jockey. He tried to rally. "I 'll bet you a hundred dollars I can " Robin gazed at him witheringly. "You ain' got a hunderd dollars; you ain't got a hunderd cents! You would n't 'a' been wuth a hunderd dollars in slave-times, an' I know you ain' wuth it now."
He may be restored to reason and usefulness " "He was so very useful before," interjected Anne witheringly. "He may be given a chance to make good and redeem the past. His wife doesn't know this. I do. It is therefore my duty to tell her that there is such a possibility. That, boiled down, is my decision." "Don't say 'decision' yet, Gilbert. Consult somebody else.
We were talking of Love, Constancy, the Ideal. "Who ever loved like the poets?" cried Lady Violet Lebas, her pure, pale cheek flushing. "Ah, if ever I am to love, he shall be a singer!" "Tenors are popular, very," said Lord Walter. "I mean a poet," she answered witheringly. Near them stood Mr. Witham, the author of "Heart's Chords Tangled." "Ah," said he, "that reminds me.
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