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In vain Cameron tried to put her at her ease. She simply sat and stared, now at the walls, now at the floor, refusing for a time to utter more than monosyllables, punctuated with giggles. "I want to thank you for the eggs and cream. They are fine," said Cameron heartily. "Oh, pshaw, that's nothin'! Lots more where they come from," replied Mandy with a giggle.
I almost feel I know him. I'll try his Cure. Don't you think it's a colossal idea?" He looked questioningly into three embarrassed faces. Emmy, in spite of her own preoccupation, suppressed a giggle.
What I'm putting you wise to," he added sharply, "is that you'd better get on to your job." There was a click as of a receiver hung up with a jerk, and a subdued giggle that testified to the innocent attention of the telephone operator. With but a pale reflection of his usual courtesy the harassed candidate left the bosom of his family. No sooner had he taken his departure than the bosom heaved.
Some of the scholars looked aghast; some of the class who had long envied her were rude and cruel enough to indulge in an audible giggle. As for Grace herself, hardly any one could have been more amazed.
'Ha! said Quilp. 'It will be our turn to giggle soon. And that reminds me you spoke of young Trent where is he? Mr Swiveller explained that his respectable friend had recently accepted a responsible situation in a locomotive gaming-house, and was at that time absent on a professional tour among the adventurous spirits of Great Britain.
Mary, but your parcel was stamped in Port St. Mary, wasn't it?" "Anything else?" "The handwriting inside the letter wasn't your own handwriting, was it? The address on the outside of the parcel wasn't your own address no?" "Is that all?" "Enough to be going on, I'm thinking." "What about Uncle Joe?" said Black Tom, with another giggle. "Your mistress is not in Liverpool.
This is the signal for a general settlement of the audience. The 'prentices giggle internally and nudge each other. Guster falls into a staring and vacant state, compounded of a stunned admiration of Mr. Chadband and pity for the friendless outcast whose condition touches her nearly. Mrs. Snagsby silently lays trains of gunpowder. Mrs.
"Do you think you could eat any more?" asked Milly with a grave, earnest look that made Aggy giggle for Aggy was a facile giggler! "No, I don't," said Junkie. "I'm stuffed!" "Well, then, you are at leisure to fill the cup again at the spring; so run, like a good boy, and do it."
"Yes," answered Diana, stifling a giggle with an apprehensive glance over her shoulder at the closed sitting-room door. "She was fairly dancing with rage, Anne. Oh, how she scolded. She said I was the worst-behaved girl she ever saw and that my parents ought to be ashamed of the way they had brought me up. She says she won't stay and I'm sure I don't care. But Father and Mother do."
Uncle Ventolera laughed with a childish giggle, enjoying these recollections of his youth, recalling the memory of shooting scrapes, stabbing affrays, and provocations in the night. Alas! No one challenged him any more! This was only for young bloods. His accent betrayed melancholy at being no longer mixed up in these affairs of love and war, which he judged indispensable to a happy existence.
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