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'With anybody in particular? I asked, humoring the joke. 'Yes, sir, with the housekeeper. She's teaching him how to brush his hair, so as to show off his good looks to the best advantage. Make up your mind, my friend, to lose Mrs. Mozeen especially if she happens to have any money." "Nonsense, Rothsay! The poor woman is old enough to be Joseph's mother."
A fortnight of more inactivity followed, and then we ventured out into the fields once more. But I went with the guard this time, not with the women, thanks to a whim the men had for humoring me. "Arrah, and beant he a man all but two feet," said Terence, "wid more brain than me an' Bill Cowan and Poulsson togither? 'Tis a fox's nose Davy has for the divils, Bill.
My benefactor, humoring my curiosity and enthusiasm, which seemed to please him very much, suggested that we take a short walk before dinner. We stepped out of the hotel and turned to the right into the rue de Rivoli. When the vista of the Place de la Concorde and the Champs Élysées suddenly burst on me, I could hardly credit my own eyes.
My attempt to seem at ease under these embarrassing conditions must have given a certain sharpness to my tone; for, instead of replying, he remarked, with well simulated concern and a fatherly humoring of my folly peculiarly exasperating to one of my temperament: "You are displeased, Miss Butterworth, because we did not let you find the rings." "Perhaps; but we were engaged in an open field.
Jones on his mind, Richard had thought proper to suggest the propriety of her humoring his mother felt no fears of Mrs. Markham, senior, whom she still associated in her mind with heavy black silk, gold-bowed spectacles, handsome lace and fleecy crochet-work.
It was now plain enough that my aunt proceeding on the wise plan of always cultivating the poor creature's sense of responsibility had given him some keys to take care of, and had put him on his honor to be worthy of his little trust. I could not doubt that she would find some means of humoring him in the same way at Frankfort.
It was really a strange sight to see that tall, overgrown boy playing with that little girl of eight, humoring her caprices, adoring her as he yielded to her, so that later, when he fell genuinely in love with her, no one could have said at what time the change began. Petted as she was in those two homes, little Chebe was very fond of running to the window on the landing.
"You seem pretty cheerful about it," said Hendricks, looking at her in astonishment. "Well, I wasn't responsible. I did it under compulsory hypnotism." "You owned up to it before, Aunt Abby," said Eunice, humoring her; "you said " "I know, Eunice, but that time it was to shield you. Now, I know for certain that I did do it, and how it came about."
We had but one idea, and that was to get away, though we could not forbear humoring our curiosity by peeping out upon the village. For the first time we saw the women and children of the Fire People. The latter ran for the most part naked, though the former wore skins of wild animals. The Fire People, like ourselves, lived in caves.
Valentine, humoring the caprice of the demented man, said, in the most enticing tone she could assume: "You have guessed aright, oh! mortal! I am, indeed, Juno, the Queen of the goddesses of Mount Olympus! By the direct command of Jupiter I have sought you out this night!" She came closer to him and took his hand. He raised hers to his lips and devotedly kissed it.
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