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I know that I must have looked just like you when that old political gentleman took me in to dinner, and I made an exhibition of myself." "What was that?" asked Morris. So she told him the story of her unlawful slumbers, and so amusingly that he burst out laughing and remained in an excellent mood for the rest of the feast, or at any rate until the ladies had departed.

Violet's report of the glimpse she had had of Rose, together with what were felt to be the rather amusingly extravagant set of deductions she had made from it, spread in diminishing ripples of discussion through all their circle. And then, concentrically, into wider circles. Most of their own intimate group took Constance's attitude.

He described the annoyance of his incessant running about at her heels in all directions amusingly, and suggested that she must be beating the district to recover her 'strange cavalier, of whom, or of one that had ridden beside her carriage half a day on her journey to the Wells, he said she had dropped a sort of hint.

He tried shutting the curtain that slid around his "exalted tomb" but for an obvious reason that eluded him it only increased the odor. Deciding to relax there, and to be at one with the odor that no reticent grievance locked within his mind could rectify, it became him amusingly the way the peculiar smell of defecation would at last be agreeable to the noses of hounds.

She made no other allusion to food, but talked amusingly and made her visitor talk amusingly too. At the same time she cut the bread-and-butter with a masterly skill and produced red pepper and sliced lemon, where so many women would merely have produced reasons and regrets for not having any.

"We were all squirts once," said Dr. Lavendar, "and very nice boys we were, too at least I was. Yes, I hope the youngster will see what a sweet creature old Roberts's Philippa is." She was a sweet creature; but as William King said, she was amusingly old-fashioned.

And you instead of being amusingly whimsical and enttŽ are in danger of becoming merely bourgeois. I warn you now that if you plan to be uncivil to everybody I shall give you up." Markham and Hermia laughed. They couldn't help it. She was too absurd. "Oh, I hope you won't do that," pleaded Markham. "I'm capable of unheard of cruelties to those who incur my displeasure.

A water scene with a boat idly drifting, occupied by a solitary figure watching the play of variegated lights upon the tranquil waters. Then came a wild and rugged mountain scene with precipices and a foaming torrent. Then a concert of birds amusingly treated. The onyx marble mantel-piece contained but a single ornament an orchestra.

And they used to point to the family of the Turkins as the most highly cultivated and talented. This family lived in their own house in the principal street, near the Governor's. Ivan Petrovitch Turkin himself a stout, handsome, dark man with whiskers used to get up amateur performances for benevolent objects, and used to take the part of an elderly general and cough very amusingly.

A company of young men in masks with a piano in their boat, which one played while another led the singing in an amazing falsetto, were peculiarly successful in collecting their reward, and were all the more amusingly eager because they were, as our English friends believed, undergraduates on a lark. They were no better-natured than the rest of the constantly increasing multitude.