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"You can't refuse to do this much for a comrade in a tight corner! I'd do the same for you and more. And remember, it isn't my happiness alone that hangs in the balance! We've got to think of Stella!" Monck moved at that, moved sharply, almost with violence. Yet, when he spoke, his voice was still deliberate, cuttingly distinct. "Yes," he said.
I find that I address a relative, Mr Anthony Chuzzlewit and his son Mr Jonas for they, my dear children, are our travelling companions will excuse me for an apparently harsh remark. It is not MY desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a Hypocrite, said Mr Pecksniff, cuttingly; 'but I am not a Brute. 'Pooh, pooh! said the old man.
Couldn't you get him to stay to dinner and talk over the way they've invested your legacy?" "Do you think he would care to meet you?" asked Millicent, cuttingly. "Perhaps he mightn't. You could have the Nelsons over, and press of business might detain me. Anyway, you'll have no time to settle all about that money and your English property if he goes out on the Atlantic train.
By this time the space was brilliant with the confronted bodies of troops, those about to be relieved of guard duty, and those come to relieve them, and our guide got us excellent places where we could see everything and yet be out of the wind which was beginning to blow cuttingly through the gates and colonnades.
If you'll be kind enough to look for the key, Miss Street, and see if it's been taken away " "How could it be? From my room?" demanded Polly, angrily. "Are you going to hold an inquest over it?" asked Mrs. Van, cuttingly. "I see the jury coming along." Johnson, O'Grady and Hard were coming across the street. Polly drew her blanket closely around her and tucked one bare foot behind the other.
He fidgeted about for an answer. "No," he replied, cuttingly, at last, "and I don't believe they ever will." "Oh, I beg your pardon," cried Laura in quick contrition. "I didn't know that it was a tender spot with you, or your family." "It isn't," Bert rejoined hurriedly. "It simply amounts to this, that the reward will never be paid to a pair of cheeky, brazen-faced "
On the piazza I found Clara J., her face shrouded in the after-glow of a wintry sunset. She handed me a telegram minus the envelope and asked me, with a voice that was intended to be cuttingly sarcastic, "Is there any answer?" I opened the message and read: New York. John Henry, Jiggersville, N. Y. The two queens will be out this afternoon. They are good girls so treat them white. Bunch.
"Who are you calling 'that feller'?" demanded Miller, dropping a heavy hand on Dick's shoulder. "I referred to you," replied Prescott, pushing the man's hand from his shoulder. "If you get too funny with me I'll hit you a crack that will carry your head off with it!" snarled the saloon keeper. "Pshaw!" Prescott answered cuttingly. "You aren't big enough, or man enough, either!" "What's that?"
'It sounded like a felon's heart in skeleton ribs, he said. 'Or a proser's tongue in a hollow skull, said she. He bowed to her conversible readiness, and at once fell into the background, as he did only with her, to perform accordant bass in their dialogue; for when a woman lightly caps our strained remarks, we gallantly surrender the leadership, lest she should too cuttingly assert her claim.
Then he paused again and eyed the mountains. "The right path," he said at last, in a guttural whisper. "Then start." The words rang out cuttingly upon the night air. Lablache fixed his eyes upon the distant peak of the mountain which was to be his guide. He advanced slowly. The Breeds followed, Jacky and Bill bringing up the rear. The ground seemed firm and the money-lender moved heavily forward.
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