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Each man went furtively out that night before he slept and took a new look at the sky to see if he could understand. The Boy was planning so the night would be but brief. He knew the girl was afraid. He kept the talk going enthusiastically, drawing in one or two of the men now and again. Long Bill forgot himself and laughed out a hoarse guffaw, then stopped as if he had been choked.
"Here, what are you grinning at, Joe Cross?" cried Rodd, who, after many months of intercourse with the crew, was fully acquainted with all, and knew a good many of their peculiarities. "Oh, not at you, Mr Harding, sir. It was a little bit of a snigger at your boots." "What!" cried Rodd. "Just a little guffaw, sir.
"Sure ye don't misdoubt me word, Maryann," said Larry reproachfully; "isn't it true, Bunco?" "Yoos a norribable liar, Larry," answered Bunco with a broad grin. Richards the coachman, who had been for some minutes too busy with the buttered toast and bacon to do more than listen and chuckle, here burst into a loud guffaw and choked himself partially.
The blending of rigid propriety, of the severest 'dignity, with the sudden guffaw and outburst of wildest spirits and comic humour, is beyond description, and is only to be met with amongst these ebullient children of the sun. On our arrival at Golden Grove, there was a great turn-out of the natives to welcome their young lord and 'massa. Archy was touched and amused by their frantic loyalty.
"Bless my soul!" said the member for Meadowshire, putting up his eye-glasses; "what on earth is all this?" "I think you have seen them before, papa," says the bride, demurely, whilst uncle Tom bursts into a loud and hearty guffaw of laughter. "Good gracious me!" says Mr. Miller, turning rather red, and looking bewilderedly from his daughter to his wife: "I don't really understand.
Here Tommy uttered a brief, wholly involuntary guffaw. "What's the matter with you?" said Ralston. "Nothing." His gloom dropped upon him again like a mantle. "Have you been at Khanmulla all day?" "Yes; a confounded waste of time it's been too." Ralston took a deep drink and set down his glass. "You always think it's a waste of time if you can't be doctoring somebody," muttered Tommy.
"I've just heard the youngster's sad story. Do you know what really ails him? Cigarettes!" "Him? Cigarettes!" observed Ferrers disgustedly. "The miserable little rascal!" "You see," smiled Tom, turning to the boy, "just what men think of a lad who tries to look manly by smoking cigarettes." "Cigarettes? Manly?" exploded Jim Ferrers, with a guffaw. "Men don't smoke cigarettes.
B., and these officers, acting for the hotel and the State Bank, have been instructed to detain you pending an investigation." Mr. Githens was vindicating himself. He may have been a trifle disconcerted by Miss Fowler's musical laugh and Brock's plain guffaw, but he managed to preserve a stiff dignity. "It's no laughing matter. Officers, this is your man. Take him in charge.
"Coming?" he asked, holding back, while the red-haired man gave a loud guffaw and dug him in the ribs. "Now, now, Freddy vat's his great weakness a little bit o' skirt," he explained to the others, who laughed loudly. "Coming where?" asked Marcella with pleased interest, though she wished his face was not so appalling. "Is it tea-time?" "No. Come an' 'ave a drink," he said. "Oh, can we get one?
She heard Eben's whistle from the barn and the guffaw of the hired men, to whom he was telling pleasant tales, and there were women's voices from the kitchen, and the fragrance of frying ham.
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