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As Octavia cried out, all looked, and all distinctly saw a tall, dark figure moving noiselessly across the second bar of light far down the hall. "Is it some jest of yours?" asked Sir Jasper of Mrs. Snowdon, as the form vanished in the shadow. "No, upon my honor, I know nothing of it! I only meant to relieve Octavia's superstitious fears by showing her our pranks" was the whispered reply as Mrs.
Ned rose and left the room, scarcely believing that his uncle did not jest. As he shut the door, old Mr Shirley took up the paper, pulled down the upper pair of spectacles an act which knocked the lower pair off his nose, whereat he smiled more blandly than ever and began to read.
"I don't see how such an expedition as this can fail to get through to Pittsburgh," he said. "I'd like to go on jest ez we're goin' all the time," said Shif'less Sol with lazy content. "I could curl up under a rail and lay thar fur a thousand miles. Jest think what a rest that would be, Paul!" Henry Ware said nothing.
Hit made me plumb sick. 'N' that's jest the same with varmints." They mounted their horses and turned down the road. Colonel May and Bob, being for the moment together, the old gentleman whispered; "Interesting sort of fellow." Bob nodded. "Nervy to try fire, wasn't he?" "Dale," the Colonel called, "ride up with us!
In this way, when I was at Bale, I baffled the celebrated Imhoff, the landlord of the "Three Kings." M. Ote complimented me on my waiter's disguise, and said he was sorry not to have seen me officiating, nevertheless, he said he thought I was wise not to repeat the jest.
The new life he had led during the last few months had brought many revelations. He had come to realise that there are several sorts of happiness, but that all may be divided into two kinds: the happiness of doing good to ourselves, and that of doing good to others. It opened out clearly to him now as he thought of Carterette in the light of Richambeau's coarse jest.
Say, Dale, you showed up soon. Or did you jest happen to run acrost us?" "I've trailed you. Wilson, I'm after the girl." "I knowed thet when I seen you!" The cougar seemed actuated by the threatening position of his master, and he opened his mouth, showing great yellow fangs, and spat at Wilson.
The great walking monster that does the great wrong to women is, depend upon it, Eusebius, the "brute of a husband," called, by courtesy, in higher life, "Sir John Brute." Horace says wittily, that Venus puts together discordant persons and minds with a bitter joke, "sævo mittere cum joco;" it begins a jest, and ends a crying evil.
Jeanie's last chance-hit, however, obliterated the ill impression which had arisen from the first; for her Majesty had not so lost the feelings of a wife in those of a Queen, but that she could enjoy a jest at the expense of "her good Suffolk." She turned towards the Duke of Argyle with a smile, which marked that she enjoyed the triumph, and observed, "The Scotch are a rigidly moral people."
Violet and Peony stood laughing at this pretty sight: for they enjoyed the merry time which their new playmate was having with their small-winged visitants, almost as much as if they themselves took part in it. "Violet," said her mother, greatly perplexed, "tell me the truth, without any jest. Who is this little girl?"
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