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"But if you must have it in plain words: I shall dress up as a boy to go with you; to-morrow when we set out you will see, you will take me for my own brother." "Your own brother! With a little face like yours! Then the most impossible things will become possible," cried Rustem laughing, and he looked down good humoredly at the little girl.
"But if you must have it in plain words: I shall dress up as a boy to go with you; to-morrow when we set out you will see, you will take me for my own brother." "Your own brother! With a little face like yours! Then the most impossible things will become possible," cried Rustem laughing, and he looked down good humoredly at the little girl.
His voice came back more slowly than his color, but that was perhaps hurried by a sense of shame at his physical weakness. "What you want is a drop o' whiskey," said the stranger good humoredly, taking his arm, "and we'll find it in that shanty just behind the tree."
And after me he called out "Prosit, Sir Lieutenant-Governor." I had no desire to be angry with him. I felt too sad to quarrel with any one. Henrik was indeed slaving away at the table, and the candle, burnt to the end, proved that he had been at it a long time. "Welcome, Desi," he said good humoredly. "You come late; a terrible amount of 'labor' awaits you to-morrow.
"Oh, you can settle that with her at your next call," he said good humoredly. The jaded nerves of surprise refused to respond further. If I had received a telegram informing me that the dispute over the presidency had been settled by shelving both Hayes and Tilden and giving the unanimous vote of the electors to me, I should have accepted it as a matter of course.
"I'm not concerned in politics at present. We are lawyers, not politicians, Mr. Arlington and I." "Arlington? That's not a bad name. Where do you hail from, Arlington?" "From Richmond, Virginia," said the young man good humoredly. "This gentleman is a citizen of New York." "New York City? Porcupines and wildcats! You don't say!
He told her where to find an electric car and what transfers to make, and she was surprised at the distance she had wandered. "Thank you," she said. "And good bye." "Sure I can't do anything now?" "Sure." "Well, good bye," he smiled good humoredly. "And tell that husband of yours to keep in good condition. I'm likely to make him need it all when he tangles up with me."
"Do you understand it?" laughed he nervously, for her manner was disquieting. "Perfectly." "You stared at the paper as if it were a puzzle." "It is," said she. "Come into the library and we'll sign and have it over with." She laid the papers on the dressing table, took up her brush, drew it slowly over her hair several times. "Wake up," cried he, good humoredly. "Come on into the library."
Jeanne, pleased also without knowing why, replied: "The little comtesse is charming, I feel that I shall love her, but the husband looks like a brute. Where did you meet them?" He rubbed his hands together good humoredly. "I met them by chance at the Brisevilles'. The husband seems a little rough. He cares for nothing but hunting, but he is a real noble for all that."
"And you found him?" "Damn it! he found ME. The rascal got the drop on me regularly held me up and made me travel. It's God's mercy that he didn't go through me. Oh, he's a good one, and I fancy the half of that reward is enough for me if you're needy." Holker laughed good humoredly, and explained that his creditors were never more importunate.
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