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Pray do not jest on a thing so grave as honour." Again the door opened, and Leonard appeared. "Welcome," cried Harley, pleased to be no longer alone under the prince's penetrating eye, "welcome. This is the noble friend who shares our interest for Riccabocca, and who could serve him so well, if we could but discover the document of which I have spoken to you."
She had dropped his hands again, and drew back a step as she spoke. "It is not a jest. It is earnest. Do not start. I will tell you just what happened. It is best, after all. When I left you at the Termini, I saw that you had set your heart on liberating poor Faustina. I could not find any way of accomplishing what you desired, and I saw that you thought I was not doing my best for her freedom.
Natur's jest like a no'west squall; you can't do nothin' but tack ag'inst it; and no men is goin' to stan' still and see the wind taken out o' their sails, an' their liberty flung to sharks, without one mutiny to know why!"
"Oh, but it fits him so splendidly," said Lady Cressage. "He looks the part, as they say. I always thought it was the best of all the soldier names and you have only to look at him to see that he was predestined for a soldier from his cradle." "I wish the Sandhurst people would have a good long look at him, then," put in the mother with earnestness underlying the jest of her tone.
Unless it was taken by some one in jest only in jest, dear grandfather, which would make me laugh heartily if I could but know it " "Who would take money in jest?" returned the old man in a hurried manner. "Those who take money, take it to keep. Don't talk of jest." "Then it was stolen out of my room, dear," said the child, whose last hope was destroyed by the manner of this reply.
It was more than the result of mere physical repose. Not only had every sign of weariness and bodily languor vanished, but there was about her an air of solemn serenity and high repose that made her seem, as Miss Ruey afterwards said, "like an angel jest walked out of the big Bible." "Why, dear child, how you have slept, and how bright and rested you look," said Miss Ruey.
Josiah said he had a good mind to set up some such thing in Jonesville when he got back, sez he, "I wouldn't name it Feng Shui just like this, I might call it Fine Shue or sunthin' like that. And jest see, Samantha, how handy it would be if the meetin' house went aginst me I would jest git up and lift up my hand and say, 'Fine Shue has decided.
But she had delivered herself into my hands . . . " Interrupting his narrative Marlow addressed me in his tone between grim jest and grim earnest: "Perhaps you didn't know that my character is upon the whole rather vindictive." "No, I didn't know," I said with a grin. "That's rather unusual for a sailor. They always seemed to me the least vindictive body of men in the world." "H'm!
The devil proved to be of the dull species, and instead of answering with a lively jest, broke out into a torrent of hot abuse, and refused to be appeased. Fuseli, wishing to avoid a scene, literally turned and fled, leaving Mary and the others to save themselves as best they could. At this period a man, whose name, luckily for himself, is now forgotten, wished to make Mary his wife.
And we married Sisters, who wuz acestemed to the strange and mysterius ways of male men, we accepted the situation jest es we would any other mysterius dispensation, and didn't say nothin'. Good land! We wuz used to curius sayin's and doin's, every one on us. Curius as a dog, and curiuser.
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