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She then smiled; and declared she never was in such a taking; and to prove this, sat down and panted, and screamed good-humoredly to the youthful O'Calligans, not to go near that pretty horse; and then asked Mr. Jinks if he would'nt take something. Mr. Jinks said, with great dignity, that he thought he would.
"But you'd have a so much better time buying, than selling or rather, trying to sell," said one of the rich men, smiling good-humoredly. "I'll have a better time working, than in either buying or selling," said Peter, and looked at his uncle with uncompromising eyes. Mr. Chadwick Champneys sighed, face to face with Champneys obstinacy.
And I've learned geography and history, and Master Swift gave I lessons in mechanics, and I be very fond of poetry and painting, and" The master was painfully familiar with the inventive and boastful powers of street boys. He pushed Jan before him into the kitchen, saying smartly, but good-humoredly, "There, there! Don't make up stories, my boy.
"So that's where it pinches." He smiled good-humoredly, and moved as though to sit down, but she made no room for him, and he remained standing. "I can certainly explain. If there have been women " Frona had been clinching her hand nervously, but at the word burst out in laughter. "Women?" she queried. "Women?" she repeated. "Do not be ridiculous, Gregory."
While he sat thus alone in his room, and as his wife lay upon her sofa, Durward entered the parlor and began good-humoredly to rally his mother upon her wobegone face, asking what was the matter now. "Oh, you poor boy, you," she sobbed, "you'll soon have no mother to go to, but you must attribute my death wholly to your stepfather, who alone will be to blame for making you an orphan!"
"Which shall I do?" asked the Picture, smiling good-humoredly. Stuart looked at the beautiful face and at the reclining figure of the woman to whom he was to turn for sympathy for the rest of his life, and felt a cold shiver of terror, that passed as quickly as it came.
You'll come across John Trevethick, if you want him, young man, over at Dunloppel, though I doubt whether you will find him much of a customer unless you are in the iron and steel line." "I am in the knife-and-fork line just at present," answered Richard, good-humoredly; "and, if you will be good enough to move aside, I should like to order my dinner."
Jane's chief thought probably was how bony and sickly this poor woman was: her own solid white limbs seemed selfish to her for the instant. She took the twitching, ringed fingers in her hand. "Play out your own play," she said good-humoredly. "You will not hurt anybody very seriously, I fancy." They walked in silence to the house.
The landlord sat calm and indifferent, his hands in his pockets, exhibiting all the phlegm of a Pennsylvania Dutchman. His fat, notable spouse was trotting round, now stopping to scold about some one who, "burn his skin!" had fallen short in his duty; now laughing good-humoredly until her sides shook, at some witticism addressed to her.
At vespers nearly all Buckeye, hitherto virtuously skeptical and good-humoredly secure in Works without Faith, made a point of attending; it was alleged by some to see if Jovita's glossy Indian-inky eyes would suffer aberration in her devotions.
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