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"But this is excellent, and the style is so new I have to thank you, Mr. De Burgh, for a delightful evening." "The same to you," he returned. "Seeing you enjoy it so much woke me up to the merits of the thing." The supper was bright and lively. Three men besides himself, and a cousin, a pretty, chatty woman of the world, completed De Burgh's party. There was plenty of laughing and chaffing.
Seven years before, he had seriously answered, "Next month, I think," to the chaffing attempt to secure his custom made by that distinguished local wit, the Colebrook barber, who happened to be sitting insolently in the tap-room of the New Inn near the harbour, where the captain had entered to buy an ounce of tobacco.
"Absolutely," Lord Saxthorpe declared. "The idea seems to be that the fellow was brought to one of the houses in the neighbourhood, and we were all rather chaffing one another this morning about it. Inspector Yardley the stout fellow with the beard, you know was just starting off in his dog-cart to make enquiries round the neighbourhood.
"Go to the post-office, bank, and so on." "You're to be errand boy, then?" "Yes." "That's the way I started," said Mr. Wilbur patronizingly. "What are you now?" "A salesman. I wouldn't like to be back in my old position. What wages are you going to get?" "Five dollars." "Five dollars a week!" ejaculated Mr. G. Washington Wilbur, in amazement. "Come, you're chaffing." "Why should I do that?
'I shall like the next world better than this, he added, and his wife and daughter laughed; for papa was supposed to be very naughty. 'Olive, dear 'Oh, mamma, I wish you wouldn't call me Olive. I shall change my name. Captain Talbot was chaffing me about it yesterday. Everybody chaffs me about it. 'Never mind, my dear; it makes a subject of conversation.
Under cover of a storm General Couch, in command of Hooker's army, retreated across the Rappahannock. The blue and grey picket lines that night were so close to each other the men could talk freely. The Southern boys were chaffing the Northerners over their oft repeated defeats. Through the darkness a Yankee voice drawled: "Ah, Johnnie, shut up you make us tired!
The men trooped past him and into the store, talking and chaffing, their clothes toil-stained and ragged, their faces tanned nearly black by the sun. "Now, then, old brusher, where's your reach-me-downers?" one asked. "Sling out a pound of twist as a start," another demanded.
Not until the last hake lay on the top of its brethren in the hogshead did he take off his oilskins and prepare for his visit to the yacht. At his signal the boat rowed in and took him aboard. He received an uproarious greeting from his former friends. The first welcome over, he came in for more or less chaffing.
"What, to meet that missing Boy of yours?" asked Jack, in a chaffing tone, so tactlessly loud that it must have been distinctly audible to the ladies in the adjoining room, the door of which was open. "Isn't that rather a mad idea? You were vaguely engaged to meet your pal, I believe you said, on the night after your arrival, at the Hôtel de Paris, for dinner.
"Globe-trotters!" suggested Lance. "Or 'Piffers' devoid of reverence!" retorted Roy. "Hullo! Here come the others." Footsteps and voices in the quadrangle waked hollow echoes as when a stone drops into a well. Presently they sounded on the stairs near by: Flossie's rather boisterous laugh; Martin chaffing her in his husky tones. "Great sport!
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