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Wish I'd got a gun of my own!" "You're always wishing for guns and watches, or something else you haven't got," I said, laughing. "Well, that's quite natural, isn't it?" cried Mercer good-humouredly. "I always feel like that, and it does seem a shame that old Eely should have tail coats and white waistcoats and watches, and I shouldn't. But, I say, Frank, he can't fight, can he?"
Young ladies and gentlemen have no occasion to make themselves very intimate or familiar with their servants; but everybody ought to speak civilly and good-humouredly, let it be to whom it may: and if I was a lady I should make it a point never to look cross or speak gruffly to the poor, for fear they should think I forgot I was of the same human nature as they were."
"Here, I say, Taloi," broke in Tom, good-humouredly, "just go easy a bit with Ted. As for him a-looking at any of the girls here, I knows better and so do you." Taloi's laugh, clear as the note of a bird, answered him, and then she said she was sorry, and the lines around Pallou's rigid mouth softened down.
It'll all go into your lifetime, darlin'," Jim replied, good-humouredly, taking hold of her hand, and extricating the tongs from them, and then drawing his arm around her waist, and forcing her to sit down in a chair, while he took one just beside her.
We have to get rid of the grubs in the old sod " "Grubs!" Max sat upright with a jerk. "There you are, at the first drop of the hat. Grubs pests not only after you get your plants out but two seasons beforehand." He eyed his friend, as if he had presented a conclusive argument against strawberry raising. But Jarvis only laughed good-humouredly. "That's part of the game," said he.
Lorrequer," said he, good-humouredly; "and now that I have told them your story, I don't care if they hear mine, though maybe some of ye have heard it already it's pretty well known in the North Cork." We all gave our disclaimers on this point, and having ordered in a fresh cooper of port, disposed ourselves in our most easy attitudes, while the Doctor proceeded as follows:
There might be danger in store for Isabel; but it was scarcely to be hoped that Miss Stackpole, on her side, would find permanent rest in any adoption of the views of a class pledged to all the old abuses. Isabel continued to warn her good-humouredly; Lady Pensil's obliging brother was sometimes, on our heroine's lips, an object of irreverent and facetious allusion.
"Nay, I should deem myself in disgrace with you, did you keep me at a distance, and not THOU me, as your little Stina," she fondly answered, half regretting her fond eager movement, as Ebbo seemed to shrink together with a gesture perceived by her uncle. "It is my young lord there who would not forgive the freedom," he said, good-humouredly, though gravely.
She smiled and held out her hand to him. "Will you send the chauffeur home!" "If you like," he replied good-humouredly. "But I'd much rather you'd wait here if you have nothing pressing." And as she hesitated, "It's not only your voice, you know I used to be quite a friend of Joe's." "Oh, yes, I remember his telling me. Over in Paris, wasn't it?" Soon they were talking easily.
Then: "Ah, well," he said good-humouredly, "you mustn't take me too seriously. It was only a suggestion, you know." He picked up his hat with the words. "A pity you can't see your way to fall in with it, but you know best. Good-bye for the present." Reluctantly, in response to his evident expectation, she gave him her hand.
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