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The surprise of King Beder, at the sight of this purse, was not small. 'Good woman, said he, 'do you not perceive I have been bantering you all this while? I assure you my mare is not to be sold. The old man, who had been witness to all that was said, now began to speak.
Then in a bantering tone: "How much better was the old day when men might differ nobly foot to foot, with the fair lady to the victor and a funeral to the vanquished as the natural upshot. It is too bad! In the name of progress we have come too far and thrown away too much!" It was among the marvels how Richard changed.
'Nay, said Sir John, bantering him with a gay air; 'the wild gentleman, who died so suddenly, scarcely went as far as that, I think?
In the end he excited my pity, and I sent for my colleague Rivet, a bantering, but very sensible little man, to give us his advice. He advised me to see the Public Prosecutor, who was a friend of mine, and so I sent Morin home, and went to call on the magistrate.
When at last the lecturer came he sat down informally on the table with one foot hanging in the air and grinned, too, at her bantering but complimentary introduction.
Though Friedrich went upon the bantering tone with Voltaire, his private thoughts in regard to the surrounding scene of things were extremely serious; and already it had begun to be apparent, from those Britannic-Austrian procedures, that some new alliance with France might well lie ahead for him.
"Oh! it's all very well in you, old Blazes, to change the subject in that way, but I'm nettled at your implied objection to my getting married if I choose. However, we won't quarrel over it, so here goes for the point." Willie's bantering manner instantly left him. He walked in silence for a few seconds, as if he pondered what he had to say.
And when will you come back, Walter? 'I can't say perhaps never. 'And will it cost you no pang to turn your back on the land of brown heath and shaggy wood, which her children are supposed to adore? she asked, still in her old bantering mood. 'She has not done much for me; I leave few but painful memories behind, he answered, with a touch of kindness in his voice.
"Good!" said D'Artagnan, with a bantering air; "the king is disengaged." "For Heaven's sake, captain," said M. de Gesvres, in a low voice to the musketeer, "do not compromise yourself! these men hear you." D'Artagnan laughed aloud, and replied: "March! People who are arrested are placed between the six first guards and the six last."
Isn't this the very flat, Dick," addressing one of their number, "that I did so clean in Glasgow, and about whom I wrote you! The fellow whom I met in the show." "No! Possible!" exclaimed several voices, whose owners now crowded about me with a delighted curiosity, and began bantering me in those slang terms in which they could best express their witticisms.
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