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Her persistence and her indomitable courage were such futile weapons against the armor of the law that they seemed pathetic, but her droll faith in herself and her absurd comments about the persons with whom she had been talking made him want to laugh as one laughs at a precocious child. She left as abruptly as she had come, tucking Babiche under her arm in a deliciously matter-of-fact way.
There were other reasons why I should be very fond of Tulp. He was a queer, droll little darky as a boy, full of curious fancies and comical sayings, and I never can remember a time when he would not, I veritably believe, have laid down his life for me. We were always together, indoors or out.
And it makes a hold in the world for him." "What do you mean?" "Children make a home you have to have one. The man can't run away and forget it." She smiled with her droll expression of worldly wisdom. "Sam would be in mischief half the time, if it weren't for us.
You would be obliged to give your name, and you certainly don't care for the police to put their nose into your affairs." And as the intendant did not reply, the new comer continued: "That is right! You are becoming reasonable, I see. It is really droll that we should meet again after all these years in this way!" He seated himself, and drawing out a cigar, lighted it at the candle.
"Tell me, Senor Don Alvaro," said Don Quixote, "am I at all like that Don Quixote you talk of?" "No indeed," replied the traveller, "not a bit." "And that Don Quixote-" said our one, "had he with him a squire called Sancho Panza?" "He had," said Don Alvaro; "but though he had the name of being very droll, I never heard him say anything that had any drollery in it."
This is droll reading, when one considers that the "evolutionist" is the only sort of naturalist who has much occasion to employ his "capacity for generalization" upon "the accumulated facts" in their bearing upon the problem of the origin of species; since the "special creationist," who maintains that they were supernaturally originated just as they are, by the very terms of his doctrine places them out of the reach of scientific explanation.
When he had made a kind of dirt-pie under the direction of the mason, they brought a little vase containing coins, the which the member for the Gentlemanly Interest jingled, as if he were going to conjure. Whereat they said how droll, how cheerful, what a flow of spirits! This put into its place, an ancient scholar read the inscription, which was in Latin; not in English; that would never do.
"Many droll sights I've seen, But I wish the wars were over." "Now or never," said Joshua, producing and cocking his pistol. I leaped upon my legs in an instant, and, seizing the weapon, which was a small tool, manufactured for a gentleman's pocket, by the barrel with my left hand, and this amiable specimen of fraternity by the right, the struggle of an instant ensued.
Money-getting and cotton-spinning have left us little time for fun of any kind in England no one has a moment to spare, let him be ever so droll, and a joke seems now to be esteemed a bonâ fide expenditure; and as “a pin a day” is said to be “a groat a year,” there is no calculating what an inroad any manner of pleasantry might not make into a man’s income.
Count Victor, as you say, could understand about our fancies for the hills, and it would be droll indeed if he smiled at us for making a treasure of the tartan. Whatever my father, the stupid man, the darling, may be telling you of the tartan and the sword, Count Victor, do not believe that we are such poor souls as to forget them.
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