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She rode by again, this time with an angry coloring of her cheeks and shook her lazy beast into a trot. Behind her trotted the two. Eventually the girl drew rein, squarely and belligerently confronting the troublesome though inoffensive looking pair.
Fade away!" the enemy ordered, belligerently. And Mr. James Gollop, crestfallen, faded. At exactly three-thirty o'clock on the following day in the Engineers' Club the taciturn Mr. Martin, after some further questioning, took from his pocket a contract and duplicate that assured Mr. James Gollop employment. "I've been in a peculiar situation in this affair," said Martin.
Their mothers had been inseparable, the boys were born within a few days of each other and seemed to be marked with a passion of loyalty for one another. Only in their love for music were they alike however. Frank was a big, square, burly man who went his way surely, confidently, though a little belligerently. Jim was little and fair and ever so gentle.
"I can't help folks talking to me, can I?" demanded the boy, belligerently. "Especially the ladies!" snorted Foley. "Regular village cut-up, you are! Well, just mind what I say," find he strolled on, followed by Seaton. "He'll never be hung for his beauty," said Seaton. "But, Foley, I'll wager you'll find that lad breeds back to Plymouth Rock!" Foley nodded. "Thought you'd be interested.
Men usually made themselves extremely agreeable to her, and she reacted belligerently under the stiff unfriendliness which had come over her companion in the last few minutes. "He told me all about himself." "And you found that interesting?" "Why not?" "Well..." A frigid half-smile came and went on Bruce Carmyle's dark face.
His arms, bowed belligerently, hung tense at his side, his great hands opened and closed, a little to the fore; he licked his lips and in the brief silence that followed ere Mr. Daney got up and started fumbling with the combination to the great vault in the corner, old Hector's breath came in short snorts.
His tongue failed him, however, when he tried to embark upon the most ordinary form of greeting. Their appearance gave him again a most unpleasant shock, a fact which he found it extremely difficult to conceal. "Well, can't you say you're glad to see us?" Ellen demanded, belligerently. "If I had not wished to see you," he replied, tactfully, "I should not have asked you to come."
So far as Connors is concerned, he was to have the carriage here for us at two o'clock. Is that all, Mr. Sergeant Hamlin?" "You better make it all," threatened the Captain belligerently, "before I lose my temper at this infernal impertinence." Hamlin surveyed the two calmly, confident that the woman knew more than she would tell, and utterly indifferent as to the other.
"Well, if that . . ." began Killigrew belligerently. "Dad, either mother and I act as we please, or you may attend to the home-bureau yourself. Mother, it was agreed and understood that I should select any employee we might happen to need." "It was, my dear." "Very good. I want some one who will attend to the affairs honestly and painstakingly.
A tinge of acerbity was noticeable in the comments of those who were unaccustomed to the sensation of being excluded, among them Mrs. Abe Tutts, whose quick recognition of slights led one to believe she had received a great many of them. Mrs. Tutts, who was personally distasteful to Mr. Symes, went so far as to inquire belligerently of Mrs. Symes why she had not been invited.
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