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He laughed like a schoolboy in anticipation of a prank, and held his scented handkerchief to his nose. My Lord Hastings chuckled audibly, and Tony punched him for this unseemly display of mirth. Armand watched the little scene in utter amazement. He had been in England over a year, and yet he could not understand these Englishmen.
You called. I came. What's up?" "It's going to sound a little mad at first, Greggy," chuckled Whittemore, lighting his pipe. "It's going to give your esthetic tastes a jar. Look here!" He seized Gregson by the arm and led him to the door. The cold northern sky was brilliant with stars.
"Nothing," said Mollie, with the same dryness of intonation, "except the bare possibility of dashing my own brains out in the transaction." "Oh, well, it could be fixed," said Amy with confidence. "Do you really think so?" Mollie's back once more betrayed a lively interest, and the girls chuckled. "Suppose you tell me about it." "And sign my own death warrant?" returned Amy plaintively.
It struck him that it was a funny, whimsical world, and he chuckled aloud and startled Mamma Achun from a revery which he knew lay deep in the hidden crypts of her being where he had never penetrated.
"Oh, ah!" chuckled the old man, "your ears is all right, John prize ears, ye might call 'em; I never seed a pair better grow'd never, no!" "A bit large, they may be," growled John, giving a furtive pull to the nearest ambush, "but " "Large as ever was, John!" nodded the Ancient "oncommon large! an', consequent, they ketches a lot too much.
The ladies still continued shouting remarks from carriage to carriage behind the backs of the drivers, who chuckled over their extraordinary fares. Occasionally one of them would rise to her feet to look at the landscape and, supporting herself on her neighbor's shoulder, would grow extremely excited till a sudden jolt brought her down to the seat again.
The old man nodded and smiled and chuckled as Sir Philip and Laura were presented to him, and pointed with a courtly grace to the chairs which his son set for his guests. "You want to see my pictures, sir? Ah, yes; to be sure, to be sure!
"Now let the rain come," chuckled Jane, after having taken a quick survey of their work. "Yes; it is nice and cosy in here," answered Miss Elting. "I almost believe I should like to sleep in here during a rainstorm." "Excuthe me," objected Tommy. "I'd be thure to get crampth in my neck."
The doctor chuckled as though at a private joke with himself, then added, "He's really quite weak physically, you know, even without the after effects of radiation and drugs." "Thank you, doctor." Back in his quarters, Elbertson was refusing to admit to himself the fact of his own weakness.
"Why, man alive, I haven't been asleep fifteen minutes." "You've been lying like a log for nine mortal hours," chuckled Bob. "Great Scott! Some sleep, isn't it? That's better than I do at Colversham." "Rather!" "Well, I need sleep. I'm worn out with over-study." "You are, like " "I am. I'm an intellectual wreck," moaned Van. "It's the Latin."
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