" "And I hate to disappoint YOU," answered Telly, quite tartly, "but you might wish to look behind you.

"I don't want any boy pawing over my belongings," she informed him tartly.

"What is the matter, Desdemona?" asked the chaplain, a little tartly, by no means pleased at having his natural history startled by sounds so inapplicable to the subject.

"Never mind about the trouble," she exclaimed tartly.

"It's no good," she said, tartly.

"Let everybody look after their own business," said Mr. Smithson, tartly.

" "Speak for yourself," said his wife, tartly.

" "Everybody is a leear, then," rejoined the woman tartly.

"Don't you trouble about me," said the voice, tartly.

"Nothing," she said a trifle tartly.

"My house is always in order, professor," answered the supremely ignorant one tartly.

"I hope you feel repaid," she said, a little tartly.

"New clothesand not before they wanted'em," she replied, tartly.

" "Richard never remembered anything in his life," said his mother tartly.

" "You have the usual masculine idea of what might concern a woman," Lillian retorted tartly.

"But won't Dicky resent" "Dicky won't dream what I'm doing," she retorted tartly, "and when he does wake up I'll take care of him.

"It strikes me there isn't much left to leave to him after an order of that kind," she said, tartly.

" "How about Henrik," the mother suggested a little tartly.

"Well, why should not it be?" (rather tartly).

"I see," say I, tartly, "that you have still your old trick of asking questions.

cry I, tartly, venting the crossness born of my desolation on the only person within reach; "if they had, should I be sitting moping here with nobody but Vick to talk to?" "You forget me!

she said tartly.

Haven't you found that out yet?" "I have found out," said Mrs. Ingleton tartly, "that Sylvia is a most wilful and perverse girl, and I think you are very unwise to put up with her whims.

But of course you submitted the draught to counsel?" "Certainly I did," said Richards tartly.

"He need not fear for his money!" exclaimed Sharpe tartly, "the captain will, I fear, be rich enough before another week has passed over our heads.