her teeth and sayingsaythis over and over again when she heardhearher mother comecomeout on the veranda with some one .
He had gotgetthe lad -- a pudding-headed fellow -- by the ear and was sayingsay, " What ?
Another time I rememberrememberhearinghearhim callcallthe village rat-catcher by sayingsay, " Come hither , thou three-days-and-three-nights , thou , " alludingallude, as I afterwards learnedlearn, to the rat-catcher 's periods of intoxication ; but I will tell no more of such trifles .
When I askedaskhim if he knew Count Dracula , and could tell me anything of his castle , both he and his wife crossedcrossthemselves , and , sayingsaythat they knew nothing at all , simply refusedrefuseto speak further .
On my sayingsaythat I did not understand , she wentgoon : " It is the eve of St. George 's Day .
" I want to write the kind of ad , " Jock was sayingsayexcitedly , " that you see 'em staring at in the subways , and street cars and L-trains .
And I was sayingsayto myself , fiercely , hissinghissit between my teeth , as they say in novels -- and really clenchingclenchthem together : I was sayingsayto myself : ' Now , I 'm in for it and I 'll really have a good time for once in my life -- for once in my life ! '
And I was sayingsayto myself , fiercely , hissinghissit between my teeth , as they say in novels -- and really clenchingclenchthem together : I was sayingsayto myself : ' Now , I 'm in for it and I 'll really have a good time for once in my life -- for once in my life ! '
By sayingsaythat you may send the child , Madame Duval aimsaimat conferring , where she most owes obligation .
Me , she had dispenseddispensefrom joining the group ; sayingsay, " She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance ; but that until she heard from Bessie , and could discover by her own observation , that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition , a more attractive and sprightly manner -- something lighter , franker , more natural , as it were -- she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented , happy , little children . "
The auctioneer commencedcommenceby sayingsaythat Miss Isabella was fit to deck the drawing-room of the finest mansion in Virginia .
I have turned very gray -- Liddy remindedremindme of it , only yesterday , by sayingsaythat a little bluing in the rinse-water would make my hair silvery , instead of a yellowish white .
And here Alice began to get rather sleepysleepy, and went on sayingsayto herself , in a dreamy sort of way , ‘ Do cats eat bats ?
All she now began by sayingsayto him nevertheless was that , having chanced to catchcatchhis enquiryenquiry, she was moved to askask, by his leave , if it were possibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecticut -- Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer .
" I 'm only sayingsaywhat mother . . . " " Be quiet ! "
Then he gotgetup , sayingsayhe had half a mind to go over to Klein 's hotel and play a game of billiards .