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A pleasant odour of onions and hot ham, mingled with fried fish and greens, greeted him at the bottom of the ladder; and then the steward came up with an oily smile, and said:"What can I get you, sir?""Get me out of this," was the feeble reply.
"Oh! you women, you make such a fuss over everything," Uncle Podger would reply, picking himself up.
I was told that, at the time of the Great Coram Street murder, it was promptly concluded by our street that Biggs's boy (for that period) was at the bottom of it, and had he not been able, in reply to the severe cross-examination to which he was subjected by No. 19, when he called there for orders the morning after the crime (assisted by No. 21, who happened to be on the step at the time), to prove a complete ALIBI, it would have gone hard with him.
man," expostulated my friend; "you don't mean to say you have covered over carved oak with blue wall-paper?""Yes," was the reply: "it was expensive work.
"Oh, it's of no consequence," the poor girls would murmur in reply, and covertly draw rugs and coats over themselves, and try and protect themselves with their lace parasols.
The only reply we made to this, however, was to pass him over the tow-line, and he took it, and stepped out.
" No," you reply, "it's all right; only go on, you know - don't stop."
"It's always in the same place my boy," was the stolid reply: "just behind you."
But as if in gruff reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room.
"Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have destroyed the peace they had only just gained.
His request was listened to with evident unwillingness, and, while yet unfinished, it was eagerly interrupted by the reply:"I can't say I like to give lodgings to a stranger in these ticklish times," said the female, in a pert, sharp key.
continued Mr. Wharton, still occupied with his daughter, yet suspending his employment, in expectation of a reply.
Harper made an assenting inclination with his head, but no other reply, to this remark; while Mr. Wharton, after lighting his pipe, resumed the subject.
The traveler listened to her with that pleased indulgence, with which virtuous age loves to contemplate the ardor of youthful innocence; but making no reply, he turned to the fire, and continued for some time gazing on its embers, in silence.
It was on a hot, sultry day that the three were in the parlor of Mr. Wharton's house, the colonel and Sarah seated on a sofa, engaged in a combat of the eyes, aided by the usual flow of small talk, and Frances was occupied at her tambouring frame in an opposite corner of the room, when the gentleman suddenly exclaimed,-"How gay the arrival of the army under General Burgoyne will make the city, Miss Wharton!""Oh! how pleasant it must be," said the thoughtless Sarah, in reply; "I am told there are many charming women with that army; as you say, it will make us all life and gayety."
To appearances, the reply was as courteous as the excuse; yet Harper wore a resignation in his deportment that was widely different from the uneasy manner of the father.
His visits to the Locusts had become less frequent, and his appearance at his own abode so seldom, as to draw forth from the disappointed Katy, in the fullness of her heart, the complaint we have related, in her reply to Harper.
The younger sister resumed her seat, apparently examining the state of the clouds, while the peddler, finding a reply was expected, answered,-"There is some talk, below, about Tarleton having defeated General Sumter, on the Tiger River."
asked Harper, looking steadily at the other, in expectation of his reply.
"So lately!" cried the other in surprise: then correcting his manner, by assuming a more guarded air, he continued, "Could you pass the pickets at so late an hour?""I did," was the laconic reply.
Harvey was about to utter something in reply, when the door opened, and Caesar made his appearance, attended by his delighted spouse.
Frances smiled faintly, and shook her head, but made no reply.
The brother made no reply; but returning the fondness expressed in her eye by a look of fraternal tenderness, he gently pressed her hand in silence; when Caesar, who had participated largely in the anxiety of the family, and who had risen with the dawn, and kept a vigilant watch on the surrounding objects, as he stood gazing from one of the windows, exclaimed with a face that approached to something like the hues of a white man,-"Run - Massa Harry - run - if he love old Caesar, run - here come a rebel horse."
"And what may they be, sir?" stammered Mr. Wharton, rising from his chair and waiting anxiously for the reply.
The officer listened to him with intense interest, his countenance gradually lighting into a smile of pleasure, and the instant Mr. Wharton concluded his laconic reply he turned on his heel and left the apartment.
The commandant read the reply, and put it in his pocket.
He listened to the warm reply of Captain Wharton with a supercilious smile, and then inquired,-"You would not have us retire, sir, before these boasted horsemen, without doing something that may deprive them of part of the glory which you appear to think they have gained!"
The group around the bed of Captain Singleton were too much accustomed to the manner of their surgeon to regard or to reply to his soliloquy; but they quietly awaited the moment when he was to commence his examination.
To this part of his speech, then, she directed her reply.
To this observation the physician did not deign to reply; but, deeming it necessary to his professional dignity that the conversation should continue, he added,-"Perhaps, in this instance, judicious treatment might have prolonged the life of the patient.
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