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Flint's head clerk, Simon Rich, who had been absent when Andy made his first call. "What can I do for you, boy?" he asked, superciliously. "Is Mr. Flint in?" "No. You can tell me your business." "I have come here to work." "Oh!" This exclamation was long-drawn out. Mr. Rich then proceeded to examine Andy from head to foot in a manner which was extremely offensive.
Gilbert could hardly conceal his enjoyment of the situation, and indeed everybody within hearing that is, anybody who chanced to be on the right train looked at the bride and groom and the pretty girl, and tittered audibly. "Why don't people make inquiries?" thought Gilbert superciliously. "Perhaps they have never been anywhere before, but even that's no excuse."
"It is nothing!" answered La Roulante, superciliously. "It is only the girl waking up at last!" "But she will scream, I am sure!" "Let her, if she dare!" and the giantess clenched her enormous fist. "I would crush her to jelly if she did!" "And then you would lose the twenty thousand francs!" The woman nodded in a tipsy manner. "That's so!" she answered.
"Hear him talk!" said Roswell Crawford, with an unpleasant sneer. "If you are not trying to get the place, what are you here for?" "I came with a friend of mine," said Dick, indicating Fosdick, "who's goin' in for the situation." "Is he a boot-black, too?" demanded Roswell, superciliously. "He!" retorted Dick, loftily.
"It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry. Yes, the most poetical thing, more poetical than the flowers, more poetical than the stars the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick." "Really," said Gregory superciliously, "the examples you choose "
Beasley can see you now, call later," he began, superciliously turning round to the letter-rack and sorting out the mail and putting each guest's letters in the proper box. For a second an angry flush rose to Frank's face. The man's manner was enough to irritate any high spirited boy. But Frank Chester was not given to what Bill Barnes called "flying off the handle."
And ere the film actress lingeringly left him to rejoin her company, Louise was some distance in advance. His sisters were near her. Lawford could see them look at her most superciliously, and the saucy Cecile said something that made Prue laugh aloud. Just beyond the Tapp girls was approaching a group of women and men. Lawford recognized them as the Perritons and their friends.
After glancing at him once or twice, in an increased state of smouldering ferocity, I said, "Mr. Drummle, I did not seek this conversation, and I don't think it an agreeable one." "I am sure it's not," said he, superciliously over his shoulder; "I don't think anything about it." "And therefore," I went on, "with your leave, I will suggest that we hold no kind of communication in future."
Here, too, was the junction, with its labyrinthine interlacing of tracks that dazed the tired brain; the overburdened telegraph posts, that looked as if they really could not stand another wire; the long lines of empty, homeless, and deserted trains in sidings that had seen better days; the idle trains, with staring vacant windows, which were eventually seized by a pert engine hissing, "Come along, will you?" and departed with a discontented grunt from every individual carriage coupling; the racing trains, that suddenly appeared parallel with one's carriage windows, begot false hopes of a challenge of speed, and then, without warning, drew contemptuously and, superciliously away; the swift eclipse of everything in a tunneled bridge; the long, slithering passage of an "up" express, and then the flash of a station, incoherent and unintelligible with pictorial advertisements again.
Between the open sarcasm of Frances, and the ill-concealed disdain of the young man, Colonel Wellmere had felt himself placed in an awkward predicament; but ashamed to resent such trifles in the presence of his mistress, he satisfied himself with observing, superciliously, as Dunwoodie left the room, "Quite a liberty for a youth in his situation; a shop boy with a bundle, I fancy."
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