I declined any interference with the minister's appointments, assuring her I had no influence whatever, and she took leave of me very icily.

" "When I want your advice, I'll ask for it," she retorted icily.

"I don't recall," she said icily.

" "Then why didn't you take the ten thousand and call it quits while the getting was good?" demanded his partner icily.

I never thought until then that a bow could be so profoundly executed and yet so icily cold.

"Well?" demanded the author icily.

A cutting wind struck her icily as she crossed the few steps of open between cabin and kitchen.

she asked icily.

And so the thing will go on until one day he asks, 'Have you no fuel at all?' when I can hear myself replying, 'Only two chairs and one wardrobe,' and he will reply icily, 'You are lucky to have that.

" "You're forgetting the wail," Geisha McCoy suggested, icily.

"Perhaps you may see something to laugh at," he said, icily.

I could see no tears then but my own, for I confess that suddenly to my eyes there came a mist of tears and I was seized with an emotion that made me shudder icily in the glare of the day.

"Next," she replied, icily, "you'll be taking your little pet to the dentist, I suppose.

Every morning when Tommy came to see her she asked him, icily how Alice was.

"In the pleadings of the late Chancellor d'Aguesseau," answered the councillor, icily.

"The Watch-dog of the Treasury!" said Steve icily.

"Be careful," I said icily.

"You will apologize for that language to me when I come back," I said icily.

"Don't trouble either to deny or affirm it," she said icily.

"Jeer at your old mother if you wish, Richard," his mother went on icily, "but let me tell you that Mr. Gordon is madly in love with Margaret and if you do not look out you will have a scandal on your hands.

"If you are too much occupied, Margaret," she remarked, icily, "I will go and tell Katie that Richard is here, and that she may serve dinner immediately.

Does he tell fortunes by tea-leaves or by the colour of your eyes?" "Laugh away, John Boxer," said Mrs. Gimpson, icily; "but I shouldn't have been alive now if it hadn't ha' been for Mr. Silver's warnings.

Would it not be much wiser of you either to submit to my authority or" "Or?" repeated Sylvia icily.

He was polite, but icily so.

and they would be dining alone together at Dover, and surely she would not be so icily cold; surelysurely he could get her to melt.