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Together they took their way up the pleasant street and at the gates of the villa he made his farewells. "I shall drop into the club for a rubber, I think," he vouchsafed, "before going home like a good little boy." "Don't play high," cautioned Ann good-humouredly.
The friend a small, lively-eyed, black-bearded man, just returned from some theological work in a German university threw back his head and laughed good-humouredly.
I was knocked on to the wheel of Leslie Walker's buggy, from whence I was rescued by an old gentleman, himself minus his pipe and cap, but good-humouredly laughing "My word! aren't the other side dying hard?"
"Oh, we're Crutchfield strong," laughed the colonel good-humouredly, reaching for a toothpick from the glass stand in the centre of the table. "We think a man deserves something who hasn't missed a convention for fourteen years."
One of Lady Mary's partners came up with an open programme and a face full of reproach. "Do please forgive me, Captain Henderson," Lady Mary begged. "I have hurt my foot, and I am not dancing any more." "But surely I was to take you in to supper?" the young officer protested, good-humouredly. "Don't tell me that you are going to cut that?"
"Don't don't," she whispered, laughing good-humouredly. "My man will hear." She let him out of the house, and as she went back she said to herself: "Well! Weak women must provide for a rainy day. And if my poor fellow upstairs do go off as I suppose he will soon it's well to keep chances open. And I can't pick and choose now as I could when I was younger.
Then he turned to Ranulph in recognition. "Ranulph Delagarde, eh?" said he good-humouredly. "You've forgotten me, I see. I'm Philip d'Avranche, of the Narcissus." Ranulph had forgotten. The slight lad Philip had grown bronzed, and stouter of frame. In the eleven years since they had been together at the Battle of Jersey, events, travel, and responsibility had altered him vastly.
Plain as the meaning of this speech might have seemed to others, the squire only laughed at the effeminate appetite of the speaker, and inclined to think him an excellent fellow for jesting so good-humouredly on his own physical infirmity.
To this Ferdinand returned a firm refusal; and his advisers, Escoiquiz and Labrador, ventured to warn the Emperor that the Spaniards would swear eternal hatred to France if he tampered with the crown of Spain. Napoleon listened good-humouredly, pulled Escoiquiz by the ear as a sign of his personal regard, and added: "You are a deep fellow; but, I tell you, the Bourbons will never let me alone."
The history of his various promotions and his favour with his employers was absorbing to him; but the time came, when Julia was about twenty-two, when his determination to win her became a serious menace to her peace. His manner, which had once been boyish and uncertain, was in these days good-humouredly proprietary.
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