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"It is all your doing," said Carmen, snappishly, when Mavick joined her in the drawing-room. "What is?" "You insisted upon having him at the reception." "Burnett? Oh, stuff, he isn't a fool!" There was not much said as the three drove home. Evelyn, flushed with pleasure and absorbed in her own thoughts, saw that something had gone wrong with her mother and kept silent. Mr.
"Better let me go first, sir," growled Tom. "I'm harder than you, and had better take the first hits." "Don't talk," cried Mark, snappishly. "Now then, can you get it open?" "No, sir," grumbled Tom, after a good deal of trying, thrusting and dragging at it. "Tight as a hoyster." As he spoke, he and Bannock heaved and thrust at the door, and a heavy blow was struck upon it outside.
"One may be unconventional," remarked her father, "without escaping the penalty of stiffness. Go away, sir! go away!" he added snappishly, to one of the slaves, who was attempting to pour water over his hands. "Your servant, Ventimore, appears to imagine that I go out to dinner without taking the trouble to wash my hands previously. This, I may mention, is not the case."
I then snappishly ordered food of some sort, any sort except chocolate, and having, after a blank interval, obtained enough bread, cheese, and ham for at least ten persons, I divided the rations with Joseph and Innocentina, who had now come up. We had a short halt for rest and refreshment, taken simultaneously, and presently set out again, with a vague idea of plodding on as far as Orsières.
"I am not happy in it" she answered snappishly "but I could be I dare say, if it only assumed an authority over me; if it commanded where it counsels; if it exacted where it approves only, if it bound me under pain of grievous sin as yours does." "Ah! if it did! if it did, it would be no longer the same religion. It would lose nine-tenths of its present advocates.
"Why, I saw you yesterday." "Yes, and I told you it was me. Can you read, Jenny?" "Why, what a question!" "Because, if you can't, it wont do me any good to wear a label." "Dabney Kinzer," exclaimed Jenny. "There's another thing you ought to get?" "What's that?" "Some good manners," said the little lady, snappishly. "Think, of your stopping me in the street to tell me I can't read."
Here is Ellenora, too good to marry Phoebus, the sailor man, too poor to marry anybody else; now, if Milburn had married her and taken her son Levin into his business, it would have been reasonable; but to take you and pervert your happiness, almost makes me " Sniffle from Rhoda. "Yes," said the old lady, snappishly; "almost! But I never did do it yet." "Did you ever see Gineral Washin'ton, mem?"
Gibbs, snappishly, as he turned at the sound of their footsteps. "It'll be all right, Joe," said Mr. Kidd. "We've sowed the seed." "Sowed the wot?" demanded the other. Mr. Kidd explained. "Ho!" said Mr. Gibbs. "An' while your precious seed is a-coming up, wot am I to do? Wot about my comfortable 'ome? Wot about my bed and grub?" His two friends looked at each other uneasily.
"If that bum actor stole your play, Ruth, he's got clear way with it," Tom said bluntly. "I'm awfully sorry " "Does that help?" demanded his sister snappishly, as though it were somewhat Tom's fault. "You go home, Tom. I'm going to stay with Ruthie to-night," and she followed her chum into the bedroom to which she had fled at Tom's announcement of failure.
Boyce had been formally asked in Miss Raeburn's best hand to the Court ball, but he had at once snappishly announced his intention of staying at home. Marcella sometimes looked back with astonishment to his eagerness for social notice when they first came to Mellor.
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