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She got up and began to move about as though her thoughts scourged her to action, even if futile. He shook the ashes from his pipe. "Do anything you blame please," he said, more by way of humoring her than from faith in her stratagem. He felt strong enough to face his destiny, to meet it in a way worthy of his mother’s people. Alida seemed under a spell in her preparations for the night.
Then he took them into his house, where they saw an object crawling on the floor with a handful of sulphur matches. He began to remove the matches, but stopped in alarm at the vociferous result; and his wife looked in from the kitchen to caution him about humoring little Christopher.
I think I remember Monsieur Gaston Cheverny a little perhaps because he is nearer my age." "Then," said I, humoring her as a child, "we shall stop and dine with you on our way to Paris, for, of course, I can not go anywhere unless my master, Count Saxe, be asked, too." "He will be asked, never fear. Good fortune will attend us all, no doubt.
And while small harm has ever come from humoring one's mother, yet I wonder at you, Manuel, that you should sit here sleeping in the sunlight among your pigs, and be giving your young time to improbable sculpture and stagnant water, when there is such a fine adventure awaiting you, and when the Norns are foretelling such high things about you as they spin the thread of your living."
When they asked him how he had done it, he said: 'Well, I just thought what I'd do if I was a horse, and then I went and did it." "I see," I said, humoring him. "You don't see. Now, what are we trying to do?" "We're trying to find a body. Do you intend to become a corpse?" He leaned over and tapped on the table between us. "We are trying to prove a crime.
Ah, Kemp, I can get up now; I am quite well, you know." "Wait till morning," he resisted, humoring this inevitable idiosyncrasy. "But it is morning now; and I feel so light and well. Open the shutters, Ruth; see, Esther; a beautiful day."
Which was Barney's way of humoring a maniac. "And they might even shave off your beautiful beard." Which was the girl's way. "Do you think that you would like me better in the green wastebasket hat with the red roses?" asked Barney. A very sad look came into the girl's eyes.
He uttered a tentative and rather incredulous "Come in" as one just awakened speaks, humoring the illusion of a dream. But the door opened and the Dumb Princess stood there, pallid, wistful, just as she had looked before her true lover climbed the precarious ivy to her tower and tore away the spell that veiled her.
A capable woman, she had no sympathy with his exquisite points of honor, and yet loved him all the more because of what seemed to her his surpassing folly. She smiled, somewhat as mothers do in humoring an unreasonable boy. "We will go to my nephew's court at Montferrat," she said. "He will willingly provide for his old aunt and her husband.
"Why, of course!" she answered, joyfully humoring his feint. "Shall I put my card in for the man to send home to her with them?" "Well no. No. Not your card exactly. Or, yes! Yes, you must, I suppose."
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