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Captain Hermann is a good business man, and there's no such thing as a friend in business. Is there?" He leaned forward and began to cast stealthy glances as usual. "But Falk is, and always was, a miserable fellow. I would despise him." I muttered, grumpily, that I had no particular respect for Falk.
"Could you tell me how you felt when you were out there in the worst of it?" he inquired. "Oh, hell!" said Marsh grumpily, stalking away. "Don't interview for a cent, does he?" grinned Orde. "Oh, Mr. Orde! Perhaps you " "Don't you think we'd better lend a hand below?" suggested Orde, pointing to the beach. The wild and picturesque work of rescue was under way.
Captain Giles explained in a conciliating tone that it had been only a friendly remark in reference to my abrupt leaving the ship for no apparent reason. I muttered grumpily: "Oh! leaving his ship," and mended my pace. He kept up by my side in the deep gloom of the avenue as if it were his conscientious duty to see me out of the colony as an undesirable character.
Pryor had reflected that housekeepers were hard to get and that there were many Milgrave homes open to Miranda also, that there was such a thing as a separation allowance. At all events, though he told her grumpily that she had made a nice fool of herself, and would live to regret it, he said nothing worse, and Mrs.
"Oh, very well," said Rodd grumpily, "I'll go and ask him, for I am about sick of this. I think there must be some volcanoes here, or something of that kind, for I never felt it so hot before." "You aren't used to it, sir; but I thought you would, sir, and the lads said they thought you would too. Thank you, sir."
He could be heard splashing; a sea came on board with a thump. "He's got his bath already," remarked a grim shellback. "Aye, aye!" grunted others. Then, after a long silence, Wamibo made strange noises. "Hallo, what's up with you?" said some one grumpily. "He says he would have gone for Davy," explained Archie, who was the Finn's interpreter generally.
He engineered it all, thought of it all, dragged me in." "You must have made a good thing out of it, Mr. Neil," suggested Palmer respectfully. The formidable old man eyed the speaker grumpily for a moment. "About a quarter million, cool, between us," he vouchsafed finally. He was, for some reason, willing to brag a bit. This statement was received in admiring silence by all but Terry.
This time she had not such good luck for she drew Whiskers-on-the-moon. "Is that Miranda? Oh Mr. Pryor! Well, Mr. Pryor, will you kindly ask Miranda if she can come up this afternoon and help me with some sewing. It is very important, or I would not trouble her. Oh thank you." Mr. Pryor had consented somewhat grumpily, but he had consented he did not want to offend Dr.
He listened to my story with grave attention. "It promises well decidedly so," admitted Indiman. "Confound it! If it were not for this unlucky accident of a sprained ankle " and he glanced ruefully at his injured limb encased in its plaster-of-Paris form. "I like the name," I went on, somewhat irrelevantly. "The Lady Allegra." "There are possibilities in it," assented Indiman, grumpily.
So both boys got as far as they could on the threshold of the big sweet-smelling barn, without stepping over the sill, and craned their necks to get a sight of the two black horses. "I can't see 'em! O dear me!" cried Joel, grumpily. "I wish there was a window we could climb up to." "We can hear 'em eating," said little David, taking great satisfaction in that. "Hoh what's that!
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