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Then I felt better and ready to excuse the poor chap, for I said, half-laughing like, to Dick Dellow here: `Jem aren't used to going out to dinners. Let him sleep it off. He'll have a bad headache in the morning, and then I'll bully him. He won't want to go to any more dinners just before leaving port, setting a bad example to the men."
Lintzow opened the carriage-door with a formal bow, Consul Hartvig looked at his wife and she at him, the Pastor advanced and renewed his invitation, and the end was that, with half-laughing reluctance, they alighted and suffered the Pastor to usher them into the spacious garden-room. Then came renewed excuses and introductions.
"I stand a pretty good chance of getting the ring, then," answered Cecile, half-laughing, half-serious; but at that moment Mrs. Sherrar hustled down the stairway, with the two children in her wake, and the merry group set out for town. "This is the corner, mamma," said Frances, as the car came to a standstill at one of the busiest streets; "and, oh, if there aren't Mrs. Tate and Lucy!
"Ergo, it is indifferent whether a thousand or one be killed. I defy you to answer that." "Nothing could be better argued, Doctor-dagger," said Fontrailles, half-laughing, "I see you will be a good travelling-companion. You shall go with me to Spain if you like." "I know you are going to take the treaty there," answered Jacques; "and I will guide you through the Pyrenees by roads unknown to man.
"Oh, come to see the folks, and get some peaches," said Nancy; "come to help along, to be sure." "Ain't your Grandma coming?" "No, Maam, she ain't. I knew she wouldn't be of much use, so I thought I wouldn't ask her." Miss Fortune immediately ordered her out. Half-laughing, half serious, Nancy tried to keep her ground, but Miss Fortune was in no mood to hear parleying.
"What, my little Caillette is weeping!" he muttered, half-laughing. "Child, you probably thought I was dead?" "Oh, God be praised and thanked!" cried Caillette, springing up and falling upon her father's neck. Bobichel almost sprung to the ceiling, and Schwan, between laughing and crying, exclaimed: "What a fright you gave us, old boy.
And she had been very pleased with the idea, and enjoyed his behavior happy in the belief that everything he said had a stout string to it very much. Even John admitted that he was amusing, and certainly he was good-looking and clever. But she smiled up at John. "It is very nice of you to feel that way," she said. "I appreciate it." "You annoying little person!" he replied, half-laughing.
Fanny, half-laughing half-weeping, hid her head in her friend's bosom, and embraced her tightly; and then they kissed each other, and laughed at the facility with which they also had fallen into the scandalizing ways of the world. Carriage after carriage rumbled into the courtyard of Kárpáthy Castle.
And half-laughing, half-vexed, but wholly frightened at the charge laid upon me, I sprang into the carriage, to hold hands with mother all the way down to the crowded dock. One day I received in London this note from Mr. Augustin Daly: "MY DEAR MISS MORRIS: I find no letter here. Impatiently, A. D." And straightway I answered: "MY DEAR MR. DALY: I find no actor here. Afflictedly, C. M."
She had her chance, for Sir John Ormerod brought matters to a crisis at the next ball; and though she thought, as she said, "she had settled him," he followed it up with her guardian, and Adela was invited to a conference in the library. It happened that as she ran upstairs, all in a glow, she came on Torwood at the landing. She couldn't help saying in her odd half-laughing, half-crying voice
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