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"But Ned said last night that he had lost so much in the bond subscription, that he didn't feel like spending any more money for an entertainment, that wouldn't do one bit of good about the taxes or bonds or anything. The baby was beginning to fret, so I don't think I understood it exactly." "I don't think you did," answered Aunt Augusta, witheringly, "That is not the point at all, and " "But Mr.
"Yes, he was," interjected Rector. "You were an easy mark!" jeered Stacy. "At least I didn't stop two bullets," answered Ned witheringly. "The fellow caught Ned looking at me and knowing instantly that something was wrong he whirled and shot at me. He missed, then I shied a stone into his solar plexus," said Tad. "That sounds like astronomy," ventured Stacy.
I did not see the joke at first; but on application to that autocratic beggar Quartermaster King was his tally he fully explained things to me in that witheringly sarcastic manner peculiar to sergeant-majors and quarter-blokes. "'Defaulter's milk? echoed he. 'Why, you lop-eared leper, you've got corpuscular fool wrote as plain as a motor lorry number all over your ugly face.
The silence which pervaded the chamber was broken by a general laugh, greatly disconcerting Randolph, but seeming to inspire McDuffie, who went on in a strain of vituperation witheringly pungent, in the midst of which Mr. Randolph left his seat and the House. Here was a triumph few had enjoyed.
She is devoted to Madeleine, evidently, and cried after she had told it, but well, I suppose it was too good for any mere female to keep." "Servants' gossip," replied Mrs. McLane witheringly. "I should think it would be beneath your self-respect to listen to it. Fancy gossiping with one's cook." "I didn't," replied Mrs. Abbott with dignity.
I examined it hastily when I girt up my saddle. It said: "Your budget got off safe, old fellow." He had given Kenty some old journals that were of no value to anybody. When we were mounted and about to start, the Lieutenant looked witheringly upon his persecutor "Allow me to say, sir," he exclaimed, "that you are the most unblushing liar I ever knew."
'Yes, yes, you want a commanding officer, and that I have seen, and that has caused me to meditate on your proposal, she interrupted him; while he, studying her countenance hard, with the painful aspect of a youth who lashes a donkey memory in an examination by word of mouth, attempted to marshal her signs of younger years against her awful confession of the extremely ancient, the witheringly ancient.
She turned upon him witheringly. "Well, what are ye goin' to do about it? Set 'round and wait till some girl asks ye?" Her voice had a fine sarcastic sting in it. Parker whipped his brown overalls with a green barley-head. "No; I ain't such a bloomin' idiot as I look." "I don't know 'bout that," answered the young woman coolly. Parker faced about.
Time passed slowly and witheringly on: a man of the name of Terry having been included in the suspicion, and indeed committed, it appeared that the prosecutor could not procure witnesses by the customary time, and the trial was postponed till the next assizes.
"I suppose you'll go in an' honey round Lafe in a minute, thinkin' he'll help you keep 'em," said Mrs. Grandoken. "But this time it won't do no good." "Peggy!" blurted Jinnie. "Shut your mouth! An' don't be Peggyin' me, or I'll swat you," vowed Peg. The woman glared witheringly into a pair of beseeching blue eyes. "Get into your clothes, kid," she ordered immediately, "then you "
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