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The facial contortion which served him for a laugh, and at the same time as a symbol of unfathomable reserve, was repeated, accompanied by a jocose manifestation, in the nature of a sharp and taunting cackle, which seemed to indicate a conviction that he was getting much the best of it in some conflict of wits.
When this unlucky cackle had been several times repeated, it caused Lady Barbara, who had been sitting with her back to the inner room, to turn round. Poor Lady Barbara! It would not be easy to describe her feelings when she saw the young lady, whom she had brought delicately blue and white, like a speedwell flower, nearly as black as a sweep.
It was for some reason thought judicious for the society to hold its meetings in various places, now here, now there; but the most frequent rendezvous was the Café des Exilés; it was quiet; those Spanish Creoles, however they may afterward cackle, like to lay their plans noiselessly, like a hen in a barn.
Billy's only answer was to pass his finger slowly along the words "Five pounds reward!" "Well?" "I thinks I knows who took them pigeons." "What's that to me?" "Ho, ho, ho! that's a good un," was Billy's reply; and he continued to cackle as though enjoying a great joke. "Unless you gives me five pound, anyhow, I knows where to get 'em. I know who them evil-disposed persons be!
"My dear Anthony," replied the chairman, with a laugh which was almost a cackle, "the labourer is worthy of his hire." Which seems likely to become the dernier cri of the overpaid throughout all the ages.
Oh, my lord, though my head is in the wolf's mouth, I was not goose enough to place it there without settling how many carabines should be fired on the wolf, so soon as my dying cackle was heard. Pshaw, my Lord Duke! you deal with a man of sense and courage, yet you speak to him as a child and a coward."
"He always holds my hand when he is with me." "Does he, indeed?" exclaimed Mrs. Amsden, with a cackle. She added, "That's very polite of him, isn't it? You must be a great favourite with Mr. Colville. You will miss him when he's gone." "Yes. He's very nice." Colville and Imogene returned, coming slowly across the loose, neglected grass toward the old woman's seat. She rose as they came up.
And when they heard him crying that a skunk had knocked him off his roost they were as frightened as he was, and set up a wild cackle. All but Henrietta Hen! She knew there was no skunk there. "Don't be a goose er don't be a gander!" she hissed to the Rooster. "I'm the one that bumped into you." The Rooster quickly came to his senses. "Don't be alarmed, ladies!" he called to the flock.
When he had lighted it, he captured her wrist with elephantine playfulness. "Bridget," he exclaimed, as she laughingly freed herself, "suppose we cut the cackle and get to the bosses. I think I've been patient long enough." "I have never imagined that patience was your strong point," said Bridget.
To this course Pitt stands henceforth, heedless of the gazetteer cackle, "Hah, our Pitt too become German, after all his talking!" like a seventy-four under full sail, with sea, wind, pilot all of one mind, and only certain water-fowl objecting. And is King of England for the next Four Years; the one King poor England has had this long while; his hand felt shortly at the ends of the Earth.
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