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The interview was filling Mannie with excitement and delight. He chuckled with pleasure. His fear of the great man was rapidly departing. Could this, he asked himself, be the "terror to evil-doers," the man whose cruel questions drove witnesses to tears, whose "third degree" sent veterans of the underworld staggering from his confessional box, limp and gasping?
After an hour of sailing in a strong breeze, it was seen that this other vessel was a small merchantman which shifted her course as though to shake off pursuit. "They take us for a pirate," chuckled Captain Wellsby. "I have no wish to scare 'em, poor souls. They will feel easy as soon as we bring the wind abeam."
She resisted her angry impulse, however, and only chuckled a little spitefully, saying, 'No offence, miss: it be a way we has in Derbyshire o' speaking our minds. No offence, miss, were meant, and none took, as I hopes, and she made me another courtesy. 'And I forgot to tell you, Miss Milly, the master wants you this minute. So Milly, in mute haste, withdrew, followed closely by L'Amour.
The grin on Dan Dalzell's face as he turned away from his chum was broader than usual. Dan was thinking that, this time, though his call must be a short one, he would be in no danger on his return. He could report unconcernedly just before taps. "No doughface need apply to-night," chuckled Dan. "But Davy was surely one awfully good fellow to get me through that other scrape as he did."
He poured coffee and made sure the boys were comfortable, then sank into an armchair and looked at them quizzically. "All right. Out with it." Rick chuckled. "You're too sharp," he accused. "We had a plan all cooked up. I was going to comment on the fishing and hunting, and then ask very innocently when the season for flying stingarees opened." The agent's eyebrows went up. "Flying stingarees?
The light-hearted fairy stories which I wrote to cheer, so to speak, the sick-bed of an innocent child, sir, they have recoiled upon my own head. Peccavi, mea culpi, an' all those jolly old expressions that you'll find in the back pages of the dictionary." "Oh, Bones, Bones!" chuckled Hamilton. "You mustn't think I'm a perfect liar, sir," began Bones, earnestly.
When the old slave-woman brought a large dish full of cakes which he had desired her to buy, and set it down by the side of the children's porridge, he chuckled so heartily that his fat person shook and swayed; and he had very good reason to be happy in his way, for Plutarch quite early in the morning, had sent a heavy purse of gold pieces for his ivory cup, and a magnificent bunch of roses to Arsinoe; he might give his children a treat, buy himself a solid gold fillet, and dress Arsinoe as finely as though she were the prefect's favorite daughter.
Now he came close to the monarch's side, and standing on tiptoe whispered hoarsely: "Hast any dragons here?" "Did you say wagons?" asked the King, opening his eyes with a terrible yawn. "Dragons!" hissed the Knight. "Never heard of 'em," said the King. The Cowardly Lion chuckled behind his whiskers, and Sir Hokus in great confusion stepped back. "What time is it?" demanded the King suddenly.
The Dominie then pressed forward, grinned, chuckled, made a diabolical sound in attempting to whistle, and finally, unable to stifle his emotions, ran away to empty the feelings of his heart at his eyes. We shall not attempt to describe the expansion of heart and glee of this happy evening. Count Basil
If it had been anything else, I'm inclined to think I couldn't have treated it." Nairn chuckled, as if this met with his approval; and his wife turned around as they heard a patter of footsteps on the stairs. "Yon bell has kept on ringing ever since we came up," she complained. "I left word I was no to be disturbed. Weel" as the door opened "what is it, Minnie?"
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