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Plainly the training had not been that of a groom. I was obliged to send him to the stables for his coat, and remind him that his place was behind. He took the hint good-humoredly, with the nonchalance of a big boy condescending to be taught the rules of some childish game. As we were riding through the woods later, I caught the scent of tobacco. It was my groom smoking.
There had even, I fancied, been a dispute on this subject between her and our guardian, for he was at pains several times to insist upon telling me incidents which it was plain she desired left unmentioned, and to rather pointedly yet good-humoredly laugh at her as a little puritan, who did not realize that young gentlemen had their own particular ways, as proper and natural to them as were other habits and ways to young foxes or fishes.
"She may wear it forever, for the matter of that, if she likes," he said, good-humoredly. "I make her a present of it." But the bride drew back as before in speechless terror, as he held out his hand, and seemed just on the point of bursting out into tears again at this untoward incident. The Shadow intervened with fortunate perception of the cause of the misunderstanding.
She did not sit down, but leaned against a desk opposite Wilkinson. "Why did you ask Bob out to the range?" Wilkinson did not like her look. It hinted that she was in a dangerous mood, but he answered good-humoredly: "I thought he wanted a change. You hold him too tight, Mrs. Charnock. Bob won't stand for being kept busy indoors all day; he won't make a clerk." "He won't," said Sadie.
"We are not the first, after all," said the preacher as he saw the number of conveyances in and about the barnyard. He smiled good-humoredly as he led the way he could afford to smile when he was with Phœbe. All about the big yard of the farm were placed articles to be sold at public auction. It was a miscellaneous collection.
The latter bore it good-humoredly, and made a sign of recognition when Courthorne glanced at him. He was a big man, with pleasant blue eyes and a genial, weather-darkened face, though he was known as a daring rider and successful breaker of vicious horses.
"Le cheveu!" one brazen youngster shouted, running his hand through his own hair by way of demonstrating Thatchy's most conspicuous characteristic. Thatchy poked him good-humoredly. "La route, est-belle bonne?" he asked.
"You were always one of the straight-laced sort, Joyce," cried Wilson, laughing good-humoredly. "But now that I have had my say out, I shall stop; and you need not fear I shall be such a simpleton as to go prattling of this kind of thing to the servants." Now just fancy this conversation penetrating to Lady Isabel! She heard every word.
H. replied, "The interest taken in the German language is now great, so that there is now scarcely a young Englishman of good family who does not learn German." "We Germans," said Goethe, good-humoredly, "have, however, been half a century before your nation in this respect.
"Not quite that: but the nation has tasted liberty; and now every man assumes to do what is right in his own eyes." "That mean's what is wrong in his neighbor's." Sir Charles thought this neat, and laughed good-humoredly: he asked the rector to dine on Sunday at half-past seven. "I shall know more about it by that time," said he.
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