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Little Sam growled, "Didn't!" apparently as a matter of habit. "Did!" reasserted Ike. "Just where I was comin' myself." Sam turned to him with a grin. "Was yer now? By ! Ain't that funny? I thought of it right off." "Sure. Same here!" They both burst into a guffaw and executed an impromptu double-shuffle of delight. They were at the door of a tenement house with steep stairs leading into darkness.
"'With a what-you-call cornet? I clapped my hand to my mouth over a guffaw; and, with that, She who had started laughing too came to a stop, with her eyes fastened on the back of it. I saw them stiffen, and the pretty round pupils draw in and shrink to narrow slits like a cat's, and her arm went back slowly behind her, and her bosom leaned nearer and nearer.
As he listened, it seemed to waver from place to place, now high, now low; and then in the pause he heard something like a chuckling noise; and then last of all a great guffaw. "There is Dirk, as I live," he said to himself, and plunged into the woodland to find him. He had not far to go.
Shtoppel began again, 'you can walk on your hands, your legs raised, so to say, in the air? Nedopyuskin looked round in agony: every face wore a taunting smile, every eye was moist with delight. 'Or perhaps you can crow like a cock? A loud guffaw broke out on all sides, and was hushed at once, stifled by expectation. 'Or perhaps on your nose you can....
"Offer a reward of a hundred dollars from your own purse for the discovery of the villain who has robbed the safe and abstracted the bonds." Phil Stark burst out into a loud guffaw as he uttered these words. "Hush!" said Gibbon, timidly. "I thought I heard some one moving." "What a timid fool you are!" muttered Stark, contemptuously. "If I had no more pluck, I'd hire myself out to herd cows."
"I don't want to talk to you at all, Kleiman," he replied; "and, anyhow, Kleiman, I don't know what you mean we are trying to do you! The shoe pinches on the other foot, Kleiman, when you just stop to consider you are stealing away from us that feller Harkavy, which all he knows we taught him." Louis Kleiman emitted a short, raucous guffaw. "Well, what are you kicking about?" he said.
Freddy and Lola hung upon Cecil, powerless with laughter, comparing her to the thin-legged aquatic birds in the Zoo; but the Colonel, with rather a suspicious guffaw, rushed to her aid, relieving her from her hose, and, as she afterwards recollected in deep confusion, a pair of knitted garters.
"Look here," said Dodger, bethinking himself of what had just happened. "Did you tell that young man who called here just now that I was crazy?" Julius burst into a loud guffaw. "I expect I did," he laughed. "Said you'd got a long carvin'-knife hid in de room." "What made you lie so?" demanded Dodger, sternly. "Couldn't get rid of him no other way.
But we must not repeat the story in all its meanderings, lest readers should grow as tired of it as Katy did; for Dave crossed one leg over the other, looked his hands round his knee, and told it with many a complacent haw! haw! haw! When he laughed, it was not from a sense of the ludicrous: his guffaw was a pure eruption of delighted self-conceit.
"It was the wrist; was it not, my own?" bending over his blade.... "Yes; he had a lovely wrist until she kissed it...." He shrugged. "But what would you? 'Calves! says he; and it was before the mess-tent d'you call those things? yours calves? 'And what d'you call em yourself? says I, mighty polite. 'Why, cows in calf! says he, and swaggers off with a silly guffaw.
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