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"I have your permission, I hope?" he said witheringly. "Certainly, certainly," said Puffin. "Now get your glass, Major. You'll feel better in a minute or two." Major Flint would have liked to have kept up this magnificent attitude, but the smell of Puffin's steaming glass beat dignity down, and after glaring at him, he limped back to the cupboard for his whisky bottle.
"We?" Matt reminded him witheringly. "Cappy, it's all right to use that 'we' stuff when you're talking to Skinner, but trot out the perpendicular pronoun when you're talking to me. I hate to say 'I told you so'; but " "Lay off me!" Cappy pleaded. "I'm an old man, Matt; so be easy on me. Besides, I don't make a mistake very often, and you know it." "I do know it.
Time passed slowly and witheringly on: a man of the name of Terry having been included in the suspicion, and indeed committed, it appeared that the prosecutor could not procure witnesses by the customary time, and the trial was postponed till the next assizes.
Down in Indiana, where I come from, they always look at your tongue. There's a lot of questions he don't ask," she ventured, looking around for either assent or information. "He asks all there's any need of," the first woman assured her. "I guess you aren't very sick," turning, witheringly, to Ernestine.
Mary gave a glance of disgust toward the blue-veiled figure in the surrey. "Oh, it's dead," she said, witheringly. "Mr. Craydock shot its head off to begin with, over at the orange-grove this morning, and I've killed it four different times on our way home. He gave it to me to take to Norman for his collection.
She gave one look at me and then rang the bell herself with a firm hand. "And I'll get behind you with a poker in One hand and a pitcher of hot water in the other. Speak when you need either." "You feel very funny when you don't have to do it yourself," she said, witheringly. "You'll never put it through.
I am not wholly ignorant of the ways of the world. And I know whom I can trust." "You trust me, for instance?" said Lord Ronald. She looked him up and down witheringly. "I should say you are quite the most harmless man I know." "And you don't like me in consequence," he drawled, meeting the look with eyes so intent that, half-startled, she lowered her own.
"An' pray who are you?" returned Stoker, in a tone that was meant to be witheringly sarcastic. "I am one who likes fair play," said Charlie, restraining his anger, for he was still anxious to throw oil on the troubled waters, "and if you call it fair play for a heavy-weight like you to attack such a light-weight as Zook, you must have forgotten somehow that you are an Englishman.
"Little Willie told a lie, and he's being stood in a corner." Arlie flushed angrily, opened her mouth to speak, and, changing her mind, looked at him witheringly. He didn't wither, however. Instead, he smiled broadly, got out his mouth organ, and cheerfully entertained them with his favorite, "I Met My Love In the Alamo." The hot blood under dusky skin held its own in her cheeks.
I sha'n't speak to you again. You may consider yourselves funny, but no one else does," said Sadie witheringly, as she flounced away to hang on to Geraldine's arm, and pour her woes into the head girl's not too willing ear. It was a good hour's walk from the cromlechs to Birk Water, the lake where they intended to pick the rushes.
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