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Oh, he had been giving his sister a ride on a donkey, and they had met with an accident. Mr. Talboys was in a humor for revenge, so he pulled up, and in a somewhat bantering voice inquired where was the steed. "Oh, he is in port by now," said David. "Do you usually ease the animal of that part of his burden, sir?" "No," said David, sullenly. Eve, who hated Mr.
Delightful as Jean Paul's humor is, how much more so would it be if he only knew when to stop! Ethereally deep as is his sentiment, should we not feel it more if he sometimes gave us a little less of it, if he would only not always deal out his wine by beer-measure?
When he was there he lost all self-control, and would whole-heartedly indulge his fantastic humor: he was not afraid of paradox: and he took a malicious delight in pushing his companions to the extreme consequences of their absurd and wild principles.
He was in no humor to be amused by the older man's talk, and a recrudescence of personal misery rose about him like an icy tide. "I believe I must take myself off," he said. "I'd forgotten an engagement."
But most of our jokes are of little continuance: though there be some so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their humor then but labor and sorrow: For a joke that is born of a humorist hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. It cometh up and is cut down like a flower. It fleeth as if it were a shadow and abideth but one edition.
The words did not sound like a joke, and there was little humor in the grim face. "'We' means Jondo, Banney, a young fellow from Kentucky " Uncle Esmond began. "Humph! Banney's father carried a gun at Fort Dearborn in 1812. I thought that young fellow came here for military service," the colonel commented, testily. "Rather say he came for adventure," Esmond Clarenden suggested.
I forget how it fell into my hands, but it fascinated me so "weirdly" that I am conscious of its having been one of the stepping-stones of my thinking ever since. It gives the essence of Blood's philosophy, and shows most of the features of his talent albeit one finds in it little humor and no verse.
He was now in great good humor, and she also affected to be gay, but there was a flush on her cheek which told of an interior flame that glowed, and when her father had departed, she walked up and down the floor of her bedchamber with the slow measured step of deep, anxious reflection. Four days later, the village of Pointe-aux-Trembles was startled by the approach of Arnold's men.
So we gave up the idea of any shooting. You must give us each a glass of hot wine, and then we'll get back to Paris." Seguin, who was in even a worse humor, stood before the fire trying to thaw himself; and while Marianne made haste to warm some wine, he began to speak of the cleared fields which he had skirted.
"And just how long would it take them to dismantle a big base?" that officer countered. "At least a month. If we shoot a team in there in a hurry " Millaird folded his huge hands over his barrel-shaped body and laughed, without a trace of humor. "Just where do we send that team, Kelgarries? Northeast of a coastal point in Britain is a rather vague direction, to say the least.
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