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You haven't exhausted the doctor yet!" "I almost never see him, and when he does remember me he chaffs me as if I were a silly child. No, I think I will go next week." But she did not wish to leave. The winter peace of the little village had been like an enveloping anodyne to her weary body and mind.
'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.
Course he tak up claim on nort fork of Grass River. But dat's yust for speculation some yet. Gaines an' Stewart go to Grass River settlement an' homestead. Oh, I scatter 'em like chaffs. Ho! Ho!" And again the laughter would bring tears to his watery little white-gray eyes.
Hsueh Heng-wu chaffs Pao-yue by composing verses in the same style as his on the crabs. After Pao-ch'ai and Hsiang-yuen, we will now explain, settled everything in their deliberations, nothing memorable occurred, the whole night, which deserves to be put on record. The next day, Hsiang-yuen invited dowager lady Chia and her other relatives to come and look at the olea flowers.
He chaffs his sister Christine, whose rheumatic pains had apparently become a kind of family joke, and says that, since they are the enemies of high kicking, her inability longer for this pastime "is partly the cause of her sounding a retreat to the peaceful shades and grottoes of Murray Bay."
"My dear girl," he said, "why is it that a woman can never understand that when a man feels most he chaffs, especially if he has cultivated the beastly habit. Your story stirred me powerfully; the more so because such things do not happen to every-day girls " "Harold!" "Do not wrong me; I am in dead earnest. As a plain matter of fact, I never heard of anything so horrible.
So he goes out with the young fellows, and all the way to the place where they are to fight, he chaffs and badgers them. This puts them more and more out of temper, so that when they reach the ground they are very much excited, while he is perfectly cool.
For one brief moment you must admire Rooney with me as he receives, seats, manipulates, and chaffs his guests. He is twenty-nine. He has Wellington's nose, Dante's chin, the cheek-bones of an Iroquois, the smile of Talleyrand, Corbett's foot work, and the poise of an eleven-year-old East Side Central Park Queen of the May.
"Oh, well, they will here," said Nancy. "Everybody chaffs everybody else in this house pretty freely. What you must do is to chaff back; but if you don't feel equal to that just at first, just grin, and let them think you don't care a rap." At that moment heavy footsteps were heard in the passage and Mrs. Danvers came into the hall. "Ah, here you are, Miss Carson.
You will let the worst fellow of the lot be the leader and give the tone to conversation because you have not the pluck to say boldly that it is wrong, and that you will not join in it. This want of moral courage makes a lad give up little by little his hold on what is right. Sunday school, Church-going, prayers given up because Jem chaffs so about them.
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