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When it was over the old woman said, "Should you like now to hear how you do?" and, without waiting for an answer, phrased and trilled the last of the pieces, from beginning to end, exactly as her visitor had done, making this imitation of an imitation the drollest thing conceivable. If she had suffered from the sound of the girl's echo it was a perfect revenge.
This, however, he would not by any means consent to, so he remained all the evening with his helmet on, the drollest and oddest figure that can be imagined; and while they were removing his armour, taking the baggages who were about it for ladies of high degree belonging to the castle, he said to them with great sprightliness: "Oh, never, surely, was there knight So served by hand of dame, As served was he, Don Quixote hight, When from his town he came; With maidens waiting on himself, Princesses on his hack
'Children, with their total lack of humour, are the drollest of created beings, aren't they? 'Oh, I don't think it's droll. I know, all children have those desperate love affairs. But they seem to me pathetic. How did it go on? 'Oh, for two or three years we lived in Paradise. There were no other boys in the neighbourhood, so she was constant. 'For three years? And then?
"Sirs," she said, with a reverential bow, speaking slowly and in the drollest halting English, "the mother and the father yes, the father ask, will you feed?" We intimated that we would "feed" with much pleasure, and she led the way to the house, saying: "Be not astonished at them, for they are very happy too, and please forgive our unleavened bread."
I have had many dog friends huge mastiffs, soft-eyed spaniels, wood-wise setters and honest, homely bull terriers. At present the lord of my affections is one of these bull terriers. He has a long pedigree, a crooked tail and the drollest "phiz" in dogdom. My dog friends seem to understand my limitations, and always keep close beside me when I am alone.
Meanwhile he exchanged greetings with the star a clear-eyed man with the face of a scholar and the limbs of an athlete. The latter had studied for the law; he had the drollest legs in the business, and his salary exceeded that of Supreme Court Justice. They were talking when Mr. Regan returned to tell the interviewer that he would be received.
You're all delightful, and I'm very fond of you, I'm sure; but for a wife I think I like some one more like myself." "Of all the droll explanations that I ever heard, that is quite the drollest," said Elsie to her husband afterward. "The idea of a man's falling in love with a woman because she's duller than his own sisters! Nobody but Dorry would ever have thought of it."
Anything like nationality is dangerous to despotic governments, and Jesuit-beleaguered kings. The Theatre of Puppets, or Marionetti a famous company from Milan- -is, without any exception, the drollest exhibition I ever beheld in my life. I never saw anything so exquisitely ridiculous.
From the oldest masters down to Hokusai, it is constantly welling up in the drollest conceits. It is of all descriptions, too.
Together with Walter Heriot, Andrew Saddlebank, our best bowler, the drollest fellow in the world, John Salter, and little Gus Temple, were oftenest cited. They declared that they invariably uttered 'Amen, as Heriot did, but we none of us heard this defiant murmur of assent from their lips.
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