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I 'lowed 't war the apple o' yer eye," he rejoined with a feint of banter. She held her face down, with her features drawn and her eyes half closed, rejecting the vision of recollection as if it were the sight itself. "I can't abide the name o' cor'ner's jury, I never wants ter hear it nor see it agin!
"About Ranald and and what you said." "What I said? About being fond of you? Indeed, I know all about that. The boys are all broke up, not to speak of myself." This was going a little too fast for Maimie. She knew nothing, as yet, of the freedom of country banter. She was new to the warfare, but she was not going to lower her flag or retreat. She changed the subject.
The derisive banter was an unintentional notification that he could expect to be murdered immediately after the finding of the lost lode. But until then he must continue to play the dupe. "I must confess I do not fancy your Western jokes," he said. "You have spoiled a perfectly good canteen."
"That's your idee of sport, is it?" demanded Hiram, stooping to wipe his bloody hand on the grass. "It's my idee of a rooster-fight," retorted Reeves. In his triumph he was not unwilling to banter repartee with the hateful Hiram. "You fellers with what you call sportin' blood" he sneered the words "come along and think nobody else can't do anything right but you.
And he admitted this, by ceasing to banter and by calling her attention to the various hazards and inconveniences the step would entail. Polly heard him out in silence. Enough for her, in the beginning, that he did not decline off-hand. They had a long talk, the end of which was that he promised to sleep over John's proposal, and delay fixing the date of the auction till the morning.
Of the subsequent incidents of the feast the banter of the younger women, the duenna's lachrymose confidences, the incessant interchange of theatrical jargon and coarse pleasantry there remained to Odo but a confused image, obscured by the smoke of guttering candles, the fumes of wine and the stifling air of the low-ceilinged tavern.
"Good sport, gentlemen, I trust to hear?" he began his quiet banter, and provoked a loud peal of laughter from Richard. "Ha, ha! I say, Rip: 'Havin' good sport, gentlemen, are ye? You remember the farmer! Your health, parson! We haven't had our sport yet. We're going to have some first-rate sport. Oh, well! we haven't much show of birds. We shot for pleasure, and returned them to the proprietors.
Seeing this, they filled my plate and let me be, turning their nimble tongues on our host What handsome whiskers la! la! He'd better be careful with those hirsute adornments and a cabin with a plank floor! He couldn't hope to remain a bachelor long! So the banter ran. What an assorted company it was!
He was glad, then, that Gertrude White was not at Castle Dare. But sometimes, when he could not forbear opening his heart to her, and pressing her for some more definite assurance as to the future, the ordinary playful banter in which she generally evaded his urgency gave place to a tone of coldness that astonished and alarmed him. Why should she so cruelly resent this piteous longing of his?
Augustin, with modesty and benignity, returns his compliments, but not without slipping into his reply a touch of banter: "Allow me to point out to you that your fifth line has seven feet. Has your ear betrayed you, or did you want to find out if I was still capable of judging these things?"... Truly, he is always capable of judging these things, nor is he sorry to have it known.
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