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The first time I saw him two years ago, I'm hanged if he wasn't bigger than he is now guess he grows backwards. Have a banana?" He offered one to Nulty, who refused it. "You pay for those bananas, you big stiff!" squealed Toddles belligerently.
"You've rung me up an extry nickel. What's the idea?" "Fifteen cents for meringue, sir." "Huh? Who had meringue? I had apple pie, plain apple pie. It's ten cents. This feller" indicating Tunis "ordered apple-meringue; not me." He held out the check for correction belligerently. "You ordered apple-meringue, sir, and I brought it. You ate it. The check is correct."
The woman was in a tearful rage, the man in a dry one. "You're a peach of a dog man, you are," he announced belligerently. "Here's where you get yours." "You keep away from me, or I'll lay you out," Wilton Davis responded desperately, brandishing a short iron bar in his right hand. "Besides, you just wait if you want to, and I'll lay you out afterward.
But, after all, you are just a baby in the claws or hands of a designing creature like that hideous Sanchia. And 'And, my dear, maintained Longstreet belligerently, the stubbornness now rampant in his soul, 'you are mistaken, that is all. You and I disagree upon one point; you condemn Mrs. Murray outright, because of certain purely circumstantial evidence against her.
The Mope, purple-faced with rage, little black eyes glittering, mouth working under a flattened nose that some previous encounter had broken and bent over the side of his face, advanced belligerently. Australian Ike, who had entered the room with him, pulled him back. "Ferget it!" he flung out. "Clarie's dealin' the deck. Ferget it!"
"But you know those other chaps banged away at us and they didn't bother their heads a cent whether they upset our whole business or not," objected Andy, belligerently. "Two wrongs never make a right, Andy."
"Shut up, you ignorant hound!" warned Bayliss belligerently. "Too bad," retorted Dick tantalizingly. "Of course, I understand what ails you. You were left off the High School team, and I was not. But that is your own fault, Bayliss. You could have made the team if you hadn't been foolish." "Don't insult me with your opinions fellow!" cried Bayliss, growing angrier every instant.
"Get out of the way," he stormed angrily. To vent his disappointment upon even so small an offender was a relief. The infant smiled maliciously. "Johnny an' Louise, Johnny an' Louise," he chanted, reviving the cry of the autumn before. "Well, what about it," demanded John belligerently. "Louise had a soda with Sid. Saw her, saw her!" "When?" Had Louise, too, forsaken him in this hour of grief?
"All very well," said Percy negligently, "but you weren't here," and he laughed softly. "Do you mean to say that I couldn't have handled the burglar?" demanded Joel belligerently, and advancing on Percy, "say? Because if you do, why, I'll try a bout with you." "I didn't say anything what you could or couldn't do. I said you weren't here, and you weren't.
"It's a queer streak!" muttered Dalton, as he turned back into the little office room, which had never looked so dim and dingy before. "For a girl that's rich and handsome " "Don't see what there is so queer in being good!" returned Ellen belligerently. "Just 'cause she's got a heart and sense beyond her years folks calls her a freak.
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