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"All right, Rennie!" the captain exploded. "If you want it straight, that’s the way you’re going to get it! You’ve been hiring Rebs again!" Once before Drew had seen explosive anger curbed visibly by a man who knew the folly of losing control over his emotions. It had been on a hilltop back in Tennessee, with the storm clouds of January overhead.
‘Which is your house—I understand,’ said Minns, wishing to cut short the visit, and the story, at the same time. ‘No, no, that’s not mine; that’s Grogus’s, the great ironmonger’s. ‘Very well—thank ye—good-bye.’ ‘Be punctual.’ ‘Certainly: good morning.’ ‘I say, Minns, you’ve got a card.’ ‘Yes, I have; thank ye.’ And Mr.
"The carriage stopped three hundred feet below the level of a roof-garden." "Nothing’s the trouble," said Jack, "everything’s fine and dandy. We’re going out now. Time of your life, Aunt Mary, time of your life!" They telephoned for a carriage and all got in. Then Clover slammed the door. "Now see what you’ve done!" said the parrot. "Is he going to keep saying that?" Burnett asked.
I’ve made a real good start.” “But, Lena, when did you come?” “Oh, I’ve been here all winter. Did n’t your grandmother ever write you? I’ve thought about looking you up lots of times. But we’ve all heard what a studious young man you’ve got to be, and I felt bashful.
“I ... I’m not crying.... Well, good evening!” He instantly turned round in his chair, and suddenly laughed, not his abrupt wooden laugh, but a long, quivering, inaudible nervous laugh. “Well, there you are again.... Come, cheer up, cheer up!” Grushenka said to him persuasively. “I’m very glad you’ve come, very glad, Mitya, do you hear, I’m very glad!
Our little faith is more pitiful than the cruel errands that bring us. I take it you, too, are going to my brother’s?" "I’m going there to see that you arrive safe and sound, but I had no intention of going when I left camp. You’ve brought me a good twenty miles out of my way, not to mention accusing me of ulterior motives. Now, aren’t you penitent?" He smiled at her, boyish and irresistible.
Weren’t you comfortable enough in the house? Whatever people’ll think of us—you throwing yourself like this on a Charity?” “My dear,” screamed the old woman earnestly above the noise, “you’ve been the best of daughters to me. As to Mr Verloc—there—” Words failing her on the subject of Mr Verloc’s excellence, she turned her old tearful eyes to the roof of the cab.
“He is a chicken to you, Rakitin ... because you’ve no conscience, that’s what it is! You see, I love him with all my soul, that’s how it is! Alyosha, do you believe I love you with all my soul?” “Ah, you shameless woman! She is making you a declaration, Alexey!” “Well, what of it, I love him!” “And what about your officer? And the priceless message from Mokroe?” “That is quite different.”
"I’d a heap rather be shet up ’tarnally than to ’long to anybody ’sides Marster Josh," said Bob. During breakfast Mr. Middleton suddenly exclaimed, while looking at Stanton, "I’ve been tryin’ ever since you’ve been here to think who you look like, and I’ve jest thought. It’s Dr. Lacey." "Who, sir?" said Stanton in some surprise. "Dr. Lacey. D’ye know him?" asked Mr. Middleton. "Dr.
I don’t mean to shoot you to-day. Why should I? This business is beginning; it ain’t done yet, Mr. Case. I’ve given you one turn already; I can see the marks of my knuckles on your head to this blooming hour, and I’ve more cooking for you. I’m not a paralee, like Underhill. My name ain’t Adams, and it ain’t Vigours; and I mean to show you that you’ve met your match.”
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