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And anything funnier than Agatha, prim and angular with never a hair out of place, stiffly hopping "Money Musk" and "Turkey In The Straw," or the "Blue Danube" waltz, anything funnier than that, never happened. But the two Adams, Jr. and 3d, watched with reverent and adoring eyes, for she was MOTHER, and no one else on earth rested so high in their respect as the inflexible woman they lived with.
Rowcliffe had seen women made bitter, made morbid, driven into lunatic asylums by fathers who were as funny as Mr. Cartaret. "You wouldn't, you wouldn't," she said. "He's funnier than you've any idea of." "Is he ever ill?" "Never." "That of course makes it difficult." "Except colds in his head. But he wouldn't have you for a cold in his head. He wouldn't have you for anything if he could help it."
"Funny, him comin' here a stranger, an' gettin' to run our whole family, ain't it?" Buddy said. Allie nodded. "Funnier thing than that is your working for him." Buddy was surprised, so she asked him: "Aren't you sore at him for what he did? For breaking up that affair?"
"We thought you were calling Dick." The joke was on me. When I explained that I wanted some fresh bread to toast and was not allowed to go to their house in Couilly for it, it ceased to be a joke at all. It was useless for me to laugh, and to explain that an order was an order, and that Couilly was Couilly, whether it was at my gate or down the hill. Père's anger was funnier than my joke.
Couldn't you go on a lark without telling the Captain about it, and getting us all into trouble?" To make this all the funnier, that very night three horses stabled in a rickety barn at Voisins, kicked their door down, and pranced and neighed under the Captain's bedroom window. The Captain is a nice chap, but he is not in his first youth, and he is tired, and, well he is a bit nervous.
Goes down sessions to see that they don't get too gumptious and kick off the swaddlin' clothes." "And was that his wife?" Wetherell asked, hesitatingly. "Aunt Listy, they call her. Nobody ever knew how he come to marry her. Jethro went up to Wisdom once, in the centre of the state, and come back with her. Funny place to bring a wife from Wisdom! Funnier place to bring Listy from.
"It would be such fun, you know." "Well, it would be odd, I must confess. What is your aunt's name?" "Oh, such a funny name! much funnier than Judy: Ethelwyn. It sounds as if it ought to mean something, doesn't it?" "Yes. It is an Anglo-Saxon word, without doubt." "What does it mean?" "I'm not sure about that. I will try to find out when I go home if you would like to know." "Yes, that I should.
But at the thought of facing that battery of laughter we fled in haste. Feeling unutterably small and ridiculous, we crept down-stairs and out of the front door, past numbers of people who were arriving. Once out on the sidewalk we leaned against the ornamental iron fence and laughed until we cried. The more we thought about it the funnier it seemed.
'There's a jelly-fish just where you're going to sit, said Wilton. 'I don't care. 'It will. I speak from experience, as one on whom you have sat so often. 'I'm not amused. 'Have patience. I can be funnier than that. 'Please don't talk to me. 'Very well. She seated herself with her back to him.
It is a sort of playing at real life without the cares and the sense of responsibility that real life is sure to bring. Rose was an adventurous housekeeper. She was still new to the position, she found it very entertaining, and she delighted in experiments of all sorts. If they turned out well, it was good fun; if not, that was funnier still!
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