rejoinder

'Do you know that you take a great deal too much upon yourself?' is the angry rejoinder, 'and that in the part of the world I come from, you would be called to account for it?'

I made an appropriate rejoinder, and he smiled wanly.

Her eyes darkened, and he expected an indignant rejoinder. But she sat silent, as if thinking over what he had said, and he grew frightened lest she should answer that she wondered too.

"I neither want any thanks, nor merit any," was the careless rejoinder. "It was nothing to do, in the first place; and I don't know why I did it, in the second.

"Show me how you accomplish these results," was Tars Tarkas' only rejoinder.

She made no rejoinder, she was so lost in staring at me, and I exclaimed, "You don't mean to say you are also by chance American?"

I don't like him," she added in a tone admitting of no rejoinder and raising her eyebrows.

Feeling probably that the conversation was taking a tone too serious for a drawing room, Vronsky made no rejoinder, but by way of trying to change the conversation, he smiled brightly, and turned to the ladies.

In rejoinder to this sally, old Arthur again raised his hands, again chuckled, and again ejaculated 'What a man it is!' which done, he dragged the low chair a little nearer to Ralph's high stool, and looking upwards into his immovable face, said,

was the impulsive rejoinder from a score of clubbed voices.

The next morning brought a line of rejoinder. Miss Garth had written to secure the cottage at Shanklin, and Mr.

"If he had been, you would not have loved him, my dear lady," was the rejoinder. "Women love us for our defects.