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For I saw one of the men who cried hatefully to the guard stumble on the slippery ice; and lo! or ever he had time to cry out or gather himself up, the men-at-arms were upon him. I saw the glitter of stabbing steel and heard the sickening sound of blows stricken silently in anger. Then the soldiers took the man up by head and heels carelessly, jesting as they went.
'And that it is likely we may come to know him, if not to visit and reside with him and I think his daughters. He HAS daughters, has he, love? 'A pair of them, Martin answered. 'A precious pair! Gems of the first water! 'Ah! You are jesting! 'There is a sort of jesting which is very much in earnest, and includes some pretty serious disgust, said Martin.
Bonaparte had put off Josephine with a laugh and a jesting word, but he nevertheless conversed earnestly and seriously with his most intimate personal friends on the subject of his assuming the crown.
Now he had a boy, of whom he used to say, when he was jovial among his guests, This boy is heir to the crown, or this boy shall be heir to the crown; and if I mistake not the story, for these words he lost his life.26 It is bad jesting with great things, with things that are God's ordinance, as kings and governors are.
For all that has taken place up to this, we might never fight I mean marry after all. The sages say that a girl should never believe a man means marriage till he talks money to her. Now, Kate, he talked money; and I believed him. 'I wish you would tell me of these things seriously, and without banter. 'So I do. Heaven knows I am in no jesting humour.
Then turning to Clara, he repeated the question, and she, having answered, received great praise. Now it happened that just at this time the ducal horse were led up to the horse-pond to water, and all the young pages and knights were gathered in a group under the window of her Grace's apartment, laughing and jesting merrily.
"Not going to be a why, Hugh said you were. There I go, giving him away again." "Hugh was jesting. I a missionary! How could you have believed him?" "Are you in earnest?" he cried. "Of course I am in earnest," she said, trying to look straight in those bright eyes, but failing dismally. Something in his glance dazzled her.
Next came the metropolitan of the church, Pitirim, an appointee of Rasputin, a feeble old man in a white cap and a black cassock, tottering in the midst of a crowd of laughing and jesting soldiers and workingmen, showing him, however, no other violence than with their tongues. One by one all the members of the old régime were brought in, or they came of themselves.
There was much jesting, some slappings of shoulders, some good story-telling, and so the afternoon waned into evening, and they went away. Aileen had created an impression in a street costume of dark blue silk with velvet pelisse to match, and trimmed with elaborate pleatings and shirrings of the same materials.
I'm not on jesting terms with my neighbors, and they had no business to come here, but I wouldn't have made any row if they hadn't insulted you." Her head bowed very low as she faltered, "They've heard everything." He came right to her and took her hand. "Didn't I hear everything before they did?" "Yes." "Well, Alida, I'm not only satisfied with you, but I'm very grateful to you.
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