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He was walking about the room, muttering to himself, his lips protruding, his brow wrinkled with anger and disgust. "Too bad too bad!" Cynthia heard him say. "Westwood's daughter nursing Hubert too! Tut, tut a bad business this!" Cynthia resolved upon a bold stroke she would address him. "Sir," she said, taking a step towards him, "will you listen to me for a moment?
"I have him well in mind: his black silk breeches and white stockings and gold seals, and two eyes that twinkled with great humour when, as he stooped over me, I ran my head between his calves and held him tight. Four seasons at the breast? Tut, tut! what o' that? 'Tis but his foolery, his scampishness! Nae, nae! his epitaph's no for writing till you and I are tucked i' the sod, my Jeanie.
"O no! Look round and find a piece of rope and make it fast to something up there, and then drop your rope down here and come that way." "What, drop myself down like the rope?" said Wort, grinning. "Tut, tut, boy! come down the rope! Didn't I say so plain as day? and if I didn't, I will now."
You're at your old quarrelsome tricks, my boy! Really you ought to be wiser by this time! As he spoke, he entered panting, and with the rubicund glow beginning to return upon a face from which the message had evidently banished it. 'Tut! tut! he said again, half starting back as he caught sight of me with the weapon in my hand 'What is it all about, Mr Cumbermede? I thought you had more sense!
"I do, grandpa," she said, flashing an angry glance at Lulu; "but I can't keep him in sight every minute; and, if people will leave things in his way, I think they are more to blame than he is if he spoils them." "Tut, tut! don't speak to me in that manner," said her grandfather. "If your dog continues to damage valuable property, he shall be sent away."
"Tut, Travers, my good friend; this is playing too high a card about such a matter. Don't you know, devilish well, that these things are common, aye, and among gentlemen and honest men too, as you say?" "Well, that is a discussion upon which I shall not enter. Now, as you say, to business."
A turn, and all the strength of the man may flow toward good." "A fool and his doctrine!" snapped Major Edward. "I do not expect grapes from thistles, or a silk purse from a sow's ear." "Tut, tut, Ned! The man who carries this county may be a damned Republican, but he is not a fool," pronounced Colonel Dick. "Jacqueline, my dear, another cup of coffee."
All this time she had held the doughnut poised; she seemed to have forgotten her work. Suddenly the wooden fork holding the cake was taken from her fingers by the daft Dormy Jamais who had crept near. "Des monz a fou," said he, "to spoil good eating so! What says fishing- man: When sails flap, owner may whistle for cargo. Tut, tut, goose Carterette!"
"I know a good deal. Three times during your illness, you were light-headed you remember?" "I tell you, I'm not a thief. The money was mine mine! Her mother was my wife it belonged to me. Doesn't a wife's money belong to her husband?" "Tut, tut! Lie down and be quiet.
"Is this locked, my lord?" "I don't know," said Heyton; and, as if he had forgotten the Inspector's injunction, he tried the handle of the door before the Inspector could stop him. "It's locked," said Heyton. "Tut, tut!" said the Inspector to himself, as if he were much annoyed by something. "Come on," said Heyton. "I'll show you the window I found open."
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