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The conversation afterwards turned upon plays, and Macready, who had ignored a half-joking question of Miss Mitford, whether, if she wrote one, he would act in it, overtook Browning as they were leaving the house, and said, 'Write a play, Browning, and keep me from going to America. The reply was, 'Shall it be historical and English; what do you say to a drama on Strafford?
Gemma began at once to wait upon her; she moistened her forehead with eau-de-Cologne, gently blew on it, gently kissed her cheek, made her lay her head on a pillow, forbade her to speak, and kissed her again. Then, turning to Sanin, she began telling him in a half-joking, half-tender tone what a splendid mother she had, and what a beauty she had been. "Had been," did I say? she is charming now!
"Look here, Charles," he said, in the half-earnest, half-joking tone which always used to make Charles laugh, "it will really be too absurd to advertise: 'According to an amicable agreement, from such and such a date the firm of " "I have been thinking," interrupted Charles, quietly, "that we will put: 'According to mutual agreement."
I rather like the half-joking way you do your kindest things. Here are the flowers! Oh, what beauties!" Priscilla turned from helping Huntter and began arranging the glorious mass of roses in the brass bowls. "What time is it, Miss Glynn?" "Eleven o'clock." "And my friend is due at eleven-thirty. She will be here on the minute. I feel like a boy, Miss Glynn.
"Well! so we wanted old snub-nose to carry us off?" said M. Lambert, in his half-joking, half-scolding way. "What the deuce of a hurry we were in! It was necessary to hold you back with both arms at least!" "Then you had given me up, doctor?" asked I, rather alarmed. "Not at all," replied the old physician. "We can't give up what we have not got; and I make it a rule never to have any hope.
The gentle, half-joking manner was very winning, and the play of his words was trembling with earnest. The older man's face shone as if lamps were lighted behind his eyes. "If I want you, Ted!" he said, and held out his hand.
"Look here, Charles," he said, in the half-earnest, half-joking tone which always used to make Charles laugh, "it will really be too absurd to advertise: 'According to an amicable agreement, from such and such a date the firm of " "I have been thinking," interrupted Charles, quietly, "that we will put: 'According to MUTUAL agreement."
Gleim expressed his regret at the circumstance, because they had meant to drink their wine in the garden: upon which Lessing in one of his half-earnest, half-joking moods, nodded to Jacobi, and said, "It is I, perhaps, that am doing that," i.e. raining! and Jacobi answered, "or perhaps I;" Gleim contented himself with staring at them both, without asking for any explanation.
"You have," said I in a half-joking way, "reconciled Frenchmen to God now reconcile them to each other. There have never been any real emigrants, only absentees; and the proof of this is, that erasures from the list have always been, and will always be, made daily." He immediately seized the idea.
There was a good deal of bargaining, half-serious, half-joking, between Mrs Moffatt and the very imposing- looking personage behind the counter, but fortified by the advent of another possible purchaser, the latter steadily refused to reduce his price, and once again Mrs Moffatt retired discomfited from the struggle.
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