Mrs. Pendomer retorted.

" "You'll have a long wait, then!" retorted Grady, with a sarcastic laugh.

But Inspector Chippenfield, with a fierce stare, merely remarked: "And you consented?" "I didn't at first," Hill retorted earnestly, "but when I refused he threatened methreatened that he'd expose me and drag me and my wife and child down to poverty.

" "You women are all fools," the man retorted.

" "I don't want any woman in the place," retorted Kemp.

"But you say that he did commit the murder," retorted the detective.

" "Then she'd better go to the workhouse," retorted Inspector Chippenfield brutally.

"That may be so, but these things come out," retorted Gabrielle.

"Not under the present circumstances," retorted the mourner; he and the ghost both coughing with the colds which they had taken from standing still so long in such a damp place"not under the present circumstances," he repeated, wildly, making a fierce pass at the spectre with the skeleton, and then dropping the latter to the ground in nerveless despair.

he retorted, eagerly.

"It was true," retorted the elder woman, stubbornly.

" "Nonsense." retorted Uncle John.

" "You're a humbug," retorted Mr. Merrick.

" "You are not very respectful, sir," retorted Mr. Merrick stiffly, as he ate his salad.

" "I have no betters," he retorted.

"You've a sharp tongue, Miss Doyle, and it's liable to lead you into trouble," he retorted, losing for the moment his suave demeanor.

" "That's nothing," he retorted.

" "You're building your own coffin just now, Dan'l," retorted Tobey, in baffled rage.

Lodge, Sidney and the other defenders of poetry retorted that poetry had a noble functionthe teaching of morality, and that an occasional poem which did not serve this purpose did not invalidate the claims of poetry as a whole.

he retorted in his most savage tone.

The charge of encouraging vice and tolerating drunkenness, with which the defenders of this bill have been so liberally aspersed, may be, in my opinion, more justly retorted upon those that oppose it; who, though they plead for the continuance of a law, rigorous, indeed, and well intended, own that it has, by the experience of several years, been found ineffectual.

"There are two in every marriage," Piero retorted sullenly, for he was angry now.

" "Fret not the lad needlessly with those fanciful notions of thine," Fra Gianmaria had retorted with much asperity.

"It was none other than Fra Paolo himself who carried the tale," the Superior retorted in scorn of the old man's weak affection.

"I don't accuse you of any thing," she retorted.