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He kept his weapon on, and sat down to eat with it close under his hand. Nine or ten of them sat in at the meal, with a considerable clashing of cutlery on tin plates and cups. It was evident to Lambert that his presence exercised a restraint over their customary exchange of banter.

Was interested in the things that interested you. No waist-squeezing here. No cheap banter. You even forgot she wore glasses. "I'm going to try to get over." "Say, you don't want to do that." "I certainly do. Why not?" "You're why, you're too young. You're a girl. You're " "I'm as old as you, or almost. They're sending heaps of girls over to work in the canteens, and entertain the boys.

One morning, when the three were together, Ferdy began, what he probably meant for banter, to laugh at Gordon for bragging about his plantation. "You ought to have heard him, Mr. Rhodes, how he used to blow about it." "I did not blow about it," said Gordon, flushing. Rhodes, without looking up, moved in his seat uneasily. "Ferdy, shut up you bother me. I am working."

Then he went on as before, but I knew I had caught his attention. "Of what rings do you speak, madam? Of those missing from Mrs. Van Burnam's hands?" I took a leaf from his book, and allowed myself to indulge in a little banter. "O, no," I remonstrated, "not those rings, of course. The Queen of Siam's rings, any rings but those in which we are specially interested."

But this looks more like 'Blind Man's Buff' than 'Ring-Around-A-Rosy, don't you think? Or are you trying to play 'Tag' with me? Well, you're 'It' anyway," he said, dropping all hint of banter in his tone. "I'd advise you to meet a few straight questions with straight answers. First, who is this Joe person you were expecting to do the canoeing for you?" "My husband."

Do not let it be surmised that I attach any great value to such banter as she had been indulging in. At the same time, however, I had an uneasy feeling that I had missed something which might have been to my advantage. It was in vain that I whipped my dull senses; but one conclusion was indicated by all this inference, and I don't care even to mention that: it was preposterous.

He cared nothing for books, and the only form of art that appealed to him was the musical comedy. She treated him as a rule with pleasant banter and refused to take him seriously. It required a good deal of energy to keep their friendship on a light footing, for she knew that he had been in love with her since he was eighteen.

Medlar beyond all sufferance; so that he started up in a mighty passion, and, forgetting that his mouth was full, bespattered those who sat next to him, while he discharged his indignation in a volley of oaths, and called Banter insignificant puppy, impertinent jackanapes, and a hundred such appellations; telling the company he had invented these false and malicious aspersions, because he would not lend him money to squander away upon rooks and whores.

"It isn't everybody who can travel at your pace in such a serious matter as this." My banter had no effect upon her. "Go away with your candle," she said. "The darkness makes no difference to me. I can see him in my thoughts." She nestled her head comfortably on the pillows, and tapped me saucily on the cheek, as I bent over her. "Own the advantage I have over you now," she said.

"To the which I would add, man," said Dick, "that if ye'd let yersel' drip into the lubricators you'd be worth siller to us; not to say onything o' the discoorse I micht verra weel preach on Satan from yer present appearance." The banter turned the man from his more meaning purpose.