" "Let's go, Alec," said Cynthia, not unkindly, yet just a little pettishly.

" Kitty took Jack's arm pettishly, but glanced over her shoulder with such an inviting smile that Fletcher followed, feeling very much like a top, in danger of tumbling down the instant he stopped spinning.

" "Haven't I told you?" said the gray cat, pettishly; "it's her temper:

I pettishly asked her why she did not call a domestic to do it.

'Why didn't he go on the Stock Exchange and make his fortune?' thought Lesbia, pettishly, 'instead of talking vaguely about politics and literature.'

' 'Rilboche is always passing people on the stairs,' answered Lesbia rather pettishly.

" "Of course not," replied Patience, pettishly; "at such a time it would be highly improper.

"Sister Olivia," she said pettishly, "let's go up to the parlor.

she answered pettishly.

Insensibly, too, she became a very little unamiable, speaking pettishly to her grandmother, disrespectfully to Mrs. Jeffrey, haughtily to Anna, and rarely to Mr. Carrollton, who after the lapse of two or three weeks began to talk of returning home in the same vessel with Anna Jeffrey, at which time his health would be fully restored.

"I think it is a perfectly natural thing for him to do," said Constance, pettishly.

" "Do not go on like that," said Marian, pettishly.

"Yes, we were delayed," said Mrs. Fielding pettishly, "by those little fiends of children.

"Why shouldn't you know?" said Mrs. Fielding pettishly through her falling tears.

But Montagu took no notice of his sardonic harshness, and seated himself by his side, though Eric pettishly pushed him away.

For Teresita twitched her shoulders pettishly and her reins dexterously, and so removed herself some distance from the kissing zone.

cry I, pettishly; "what is the use?

I ask, pettishly; "not far off, I hope!

"Well, Madoc then," replied Aunt Maria rather pettishly, for she was dreadfully tired, and moreover she didn't like Thurstane.

"I didn't suppose you did," said Aunt Maria pettishly.

"It was outrageous to bring us here," she went on pettishly.

"I was going," she answered pettishly, and darting out a moment after we heard her.

Eugénie was bending over her, and Mrs. Welby was pettishly answering.

he exclaimed, pettishly.

The young man lost temper, and pettishly replied, "I'm going to the devil."