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"Why now, Waggey, do you know I wouldn't have done such a thing for the world! no, not even to have been made a Markiss!" a horse-laugh follows this denunciation, at which the newly created marquis bites his livid lips. The Baron, who appears to have no taste for walking, still sticks to the punch mare, which Mr. Jorrocks steers to the newly formed ring aided by the Baron and the furze-bush.
I don't advertise myself for no circus-horse, but I knew dat trick better than most, an' dey was good to me in de stables, fer I saved time on de Belt an' time's what dey hunt in N' York." "But the simple child o' nature " the yellow horse began. "Oh, go an' unscrew yer splints! You're talkin' through yer bandages," said Muldoon, with a horse-laugh.
"What, here! come out, lad," roared the smith, with a great horse-laugh, swinging Nick forward and thwacking him jovially between the shoulders with his brawny hand; "come out, and go along o' the master here, 'tis for thy good, and ho-ome wull keep, I trow, till thou dost come again." But Nick hung back, and clung to the blacksmith's grimy arm, crying in despair: "I will na oh, I will na!"
A railroad can ask for public aid; but fancy him asking public aid to open and settle up his private lands! He could almost hear Susie's horse-laugh in reply. Why should she not laugh? He recalled with what sweet unboastful tone his father had always condemned every scheme and symptom of riding on public shoulders into private fortune.
Upon your knees, ye pauper scum, and do him reverence!" He followed this with another horse-laugh. The girls began to plead timidly for their brother; and Nan said "An thou wilt but let him to bed, father, rest and sleep will heal his madness: prithee, do." "Do, father," said Bet; "he is more worn than is his wont.
"You are much more charitable than most women, Miss Dawson," he said gravely; after which he left abruptly, and went back to his desk in the Crow's Nest. As we have seen, this bit of confidential talk between the superintendent and Faith Dawson fell in the period of the jesting horse-laugh; fell, as it chanced, on a day when the horse-laugh was at its height.
The deer, for instance, has been observed to shed tears in the extremity of terror, and the hard-pressed hare cries like an ill-regulated child; but not one of them indicates any emotion analogous to the laughter of Man, excepting Dog. True it is, that we hear of a "horse-laugh." There is a beast, too, called the "laughing hyena," and a dismal beast he is.
Brilliana answered him with the dignity of a gracious and benevolent queen. "Do not withdraw, sir; you have the liberty of Loyalty House, and I would not have you avoid any part of its gardens." Evander bowed. Sir Blaise broke into a horse-laugh which grated more on Brilliana's ears than on Evander's. Brilliana was at heart rather angry that for once Puritan should show better than Cavalier.
Upon your knees, ye pauper scum, and do him reverence!" He followed this with another horse-laugh. The girls began to plead timidly for their brother; and Nan said "An thou wilt but let him to bed, father, rest and sleep will heal his madness: prithee, do." "Do, father," said Bet; "he is more worn than is his wont.
You're puttin' on too many scollops, I tell you. You knowed all 'bout mud in the Wabash bottoms. You had 'nuff of it there, the Lord knows." "Yes, we had," replied Shorty; "but we was too well raised to track it into anybody's parlor." "Parlor," echoed Sol, with a horse-laugh. "Lord, how fine we are, just becaze one o' us happens to be a measly little Corporal.
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