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Tignonville held too good an opinion of himself to suspect the other of badinage; and thus encouraged, he pushed his way to the front of the circle. During his absence with his betrothed, the crowd in the Chamber had grown thin, the candles had burned an inch shorter in the sconces.
The market was alive with porters, who hailed our appearance with every profession of delight. Early hours would seem to lend a certain acidity to their badinage. By-and-by a more personal note crept into their facetious comments. Two guardsmen on the top step suddenly displayed, in return, a very creditable gift of repartee. Covent Garden market was delighted.
He glided here and there, reining his horse beside this senator or that lieutenant to utter a word of the safety assured to Rome and of the ruin that hung over the invader, or even calling back to the foremost of the escort some rough badinage upon their gloomy looks; for Minucius was a man of the people, scorning patrician pride of race, and wishing it known that, however high his rank, he held himself no whit better than any potter of the Aventine or weaver of the Suburra.
The hours that elapsed between luncheon and dinner were spent in the various styles of decoration suggested by Lady Douglas. The important Johnnie was under the direct supervision of Miss Cheenick, cutting off and preparing little twigs for garlands, with occasional sallies of good natured badinage. Miss Douglas was making illuminated mottoes and texts in a quiet corner of the apartment.
There had been a great deal of badinage between him and Zoe, but Lilly had finished her meal almost in silence. The day following, a toy piano of complete range and really excellent workmanship had arrived. She returned it without showing it to Zoe. These incidents lay between them now. "So this is where you live," he repeated, as if his long curiosity could not find satiety in fact.
There were laughter, profanity, play a continuous hum, but compared to Benton's usual turmoil, it was pleasant. The workmen talked in groups, and, like all crowds of men sober and unexcited, they were given largely to badinage and idle talk. "Wot was ut I owed ye, Moike?" asked a strapping grader. Mike scratched his head. "Wor it thorty dollars this toime?" "It wor," replied the other.
The charming De Ventadour! she had attraction for them all! smiles for the silent, badinage for the gay, politics for the Frenchman, poetry for the German, the eloquence of loveliness for all! Her dress of black velvet, and graceful hat with its princely plume, contrasted the alabaster whiteness of her arms and neck.
The majority of the company were as rowdy a set of good-humored Bean-Feasters as ever drank thin beer in a ramshackle tavern. But there was one of them this is twenty-five years ago, reader! a girl as fragile as a peeled Willow-wand and teased by the rude badinage of our companions we sheltered as the friendly mists rose under a great Tarpaulin at the barge's stern.
It was on the tip of Sydney's tongue to use some badinage such as he would have done, in his light and easy fashion, to a servant-maid or shop-girl. But something in her look caused him, luckily, to refrain. He went as near as he dared to the confines of love-making. "Give me the flower you wear," he said, leaning a little towards her. "Then I shall at least have a remembrance of you."
"The honour done is all conferred on me," and she bowed and curtsied with very stately grace. Each thoroughly understood the badinage of the other; and then, in a few moments, they were engaged in very easy conversation. "By the by, Sowerby, what do you think of this threatened dissolution?" said Tom Towers. "We are all in the hands of Providence," said Mr.
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