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"Well, you mustn't let me keep you up," I said. "Oh, I'll let you know when I fall asleep," he replied, with a chuckle; and with this understanding I sat down again not at all unwillingly. At this moment Miss Oman entered with a small tray and a smile of which I should not have supposed her capable. "You'll take your toast and cocoa while they're hot, dear, won't you?" she said coaxingly.
At the end of three weeks, Hortense, with that display of temperament so often encountered in young ladies of her profession, announced in desperation that, if this thing kept on, she was going to forget herself and jeopardize her position by demanding to know outright what the trouble was. From the direction of Pop Henderson's inky retreat, there came the sound of a dry chuckle.
Coggs seemed to be last. He ran a little way himself just to encourage them, but, as the sound of their feet grew fainter and fainter, he felt that his last desperate ruse had taken effect, and with a chuckle at his own cleverness, turned round and ran his fastest in the opposite direction. He felt little or no interest in the result of the race.
Desire will have a car of her own as soon as she likes to try it. Aunt won't drive and I don't." This was the first approach to a personal remark the professor had made. No one was in sight yet and Mary began to hope again. Once more she tried the gently serious gaze. "Why not?" she asked, not too eagerly. Yorick, sunning himself by the door, gave vent to a goblin chuckle.
I looked through the gate and saw that it was indeed the general, who, having either seen us or been attracted by our voices, was hurrying down towards us. As he advanced he would stop from time to time and peer at us through the dark shadow thrown by the trees, as if he were irresolute whether to come on or no. "He's reconnoitering!" whispered my companion with a hoarse chuckle.
She herself was not at all disturbed by her mishaps but, with a grimace and a chuckle, picked up the food. But Cesca was annoyed. She was tending the fire which by a marvel of skill she kept always clear and all but smokeless. At each of Molly's mishaps, Cesca hurled a stone at her friend's back with a savage "Me-yah!" that disturbed Molly not at all.
And when Bennie would look shyly and questioningly into his face for permission to accept the proffered offerings, the big superintendent would chuckle delightedly. Bennie had a strangely mobile face for such a baby, and the whitest, smoothest brow I have ever seen. The comedy and tears and misery and laughter of the big, white-walled court room were too much for Bennie.
"Yes, the one which made you chuckle this afternoon," Rod suggested. "Oh, that one, ha, ha! Sure I know all about it, fer I was there myself. I was younger then than I am now, and fond of an occasional joke. I heard that two men were goin' to hunt fer gold right over there by the shore near that big rock I showed yez to-day.
He drew a small notched stick from his "possible sack," and desired us to count the notches upon it. We did so. There were one hundred and forty-five in all. "You have killed one hundred and forty-five, then?" cried we, astonished at the number. "Yes, i'deed," replied he, with a quiet chuckle, "that many dozen; for every 'un of them nutches count twelve.
Scarcely had he spoken when the dark objects receded, becoming less and less distinct, till they disappeared in the darkness. Tom very seldom indulged in a chuckle, but he did so on this occasion. "I thought as how it would have a good effect," he observed. "They expected to take us by surprise, and had no stomach for fighting.
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