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Folks wuz in a full snicker and a giggle by this time. "Oh, no," sez he, loud and strong, "you don't want to part with me till I git you a fashionable dinner, and we both cut style. "Tenderloin of beef a-tryin' on" a-tryin' on what, I'd love to know? style, most probable, this is such a stylish place." "Will you be still, Josiah Allen?" sez I, a-layin' holt of his vest.
Did you ever hear a whole house, a great big theater full of a peevish vaudeville audience, just rise at you, give one roar of laughter they hadn't expected at all to give, and then settle down to giggle at every move you made? Girl alive, I just had 'em! They couldn't take their eyes off me. If I squirmed, they howled.
He was brimming over with talk, and told me some stories about my friends in the land of delight, interspersing them with imitation of their manner and gesture, which made me giggle Amroth was an admirable mimic. "I had hopes of Charmides," he said; "your stay there aroused his curiosity. But he has gone back to his absurd tones and half-tones, and is nearly insupportable.
The fair Nunaga fell into a tremendous giggle at this joke, for although our hero's Eskimo was not very perfect, he possessed all an Irishman's capacity for making his meaning understood, more or less; and truly it was a sight to behold the varied expressions of face the childlike surprise, admiration, curiosity, and something approaching to awe with which those unsophisticated natives received the explanation of the different parts of that clasp-knife!
He had frequently "raised" twenty or thirty pounds in this way in New Zealand. Once or twice he had borrowed a few pounds from a doctor by telling him a pitiful tale, but most doctors recognized his symptoms and refused to help him to hurt himself. Suddenly Marcella gave a little giggle of sheer amusement. "I don't see much to laugh at," he growled.
But as soon as James reached for the little screws that adjusted the electrodes, Martha started to giggle and squirm. He stalked away and sat through another session between Martha and her mother. Late in the afternoon James succeeded in getting her to the machine; Martha uttered a sentence without punctuating it with little giggles, but it came as elided babytalk. "Again," he commanded.
"Yes, and see the white caps. Oh, we shall have a fine sail. Are you ever seasick?" "No; never! Are you?" "No; I have crossed eighty-seven times, so I'm used to it. Did you know there's a case of diphtheria on board?" "No, is that so?" "Yes. Somebody in the steerage, I believe. That's why we're stopped at Quarantine." This struck both girls so funny that they had to stop and giggle at it.
It caused a peculiar clicking sound, as though he had something between a giggle and a gas-meter at work in his neck. His literary admirations were not precisely Mr. Mr.
The corners of Tim's mouth dropped, and his face became grave. "Is it, miss?" he asked soberly. "Now, listen to me, Tim, and I will teach you logic. Of course you know what logic is?" "Is it a pain here?" asked Tim, pointing to the region below his waistcoat, the twinkle returning to his eye. Molly sternly repressed a tendency to giggle. "No, logic is the art of reasoning," she replied, gravely.
She meant this assertion to be very impressive, but it did not seem to affect the man in the least. She sighed, and Flo, with a giggle, broke an awkward pause. "Well, why don't you get busy. Maud?" she asked. "I in what way, Flo?" asked her sister, catching at the suggestion implied. "Captain Carg would make a splendid motion picture actor," declared the younger Miss Stanton, audaciously.
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