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He still challenged his friend with a jesting air, but a deeper and stronger feeling of some sort trembled in his voice. Atherton would not reply to his emotion; he answered, with obvious evasion: "It's a good cause; in some sort the best sort it's a missionary work." "That's what my mother said to me." "And the change will be good for your health." "That's what I said to my mother!"
She started with surprise, for there was the ring of deep, earnest feeling beneath the jesting tone then following the direction of his glance, and perceiving that the group upon which it rested was composed of Adelaide and Elsie Dinsmore, with some half dozen gentlemen who had gathered about them, she looked greatly pleased. "And why hopeless?" she asked.
These two persons were the causes of all the persecutions which the Lutherans and those of the reformed religion underwent in France. Pere La Chaise, with his long ears, began this worthy enterprise, and Pere Letellier completed it; France was thus ruined in every way. Her habit was to treat things very seriously, and without the least appearance of jesting.
"Ah! that came too close for jesting; but I do want to watch the action of that solution on a more highly organized living body; there is that big white rabbit," he said, following me into the studio.
And so it fell out, some days afterwards, as these same thieves were drinking in an inn, a flight of crows came and lighted on the top of the house; whereupon the thieves, jesting, said to one another, "See, yonder are those who are to avenge the death of him we despatched t'other day," which the tapster overhearing, told forthwith to the magistrate, who arrested them presently, and thereupon they confessed, and were put to death. And so he went on, sustaining his position with strange narratives culled here and there from the wilderness of his reading.
Against these sayings of Aristo no one had anything to offer in reply, since it was quite evident he was jesting. I suggested to him to take a cup and treat it as a lyre, tuning it to the harmony and order he praised. At the same time a slave came offering him pure wine. But he refused it, saying with a laugh that he was discussing logical not organic music.
Hope, 'to sit by and listen to a man speaking on one's side, and always missing the point! Mr. Hope-Scott was a man run away with by good sense. A constant fire of puns was kept up when he, Bishop Grant, and Mr. Badeley were together, though the Bishop always sought a moral purpose in his jesting. After having heard Mr. Hope-Scott's and Mr.
The one was composed of Filipinos, cowed, melancholy, sullen, gazing through hopeless eyes at the final scene in the life of their great countryman the man who had dared to champion their cause, and to tell the world the story of their miseries; the other was blithe of air, gay with the uniforms of officers and the bright dresses of Spanish ladies, the men jesting and laughing, the women shamelessly applauding with waving handkerchiefs and clapping palms, all alike triumphing openly in the death of the hated 'Indian, the 'brother of the water-buffalo, whose insolence had wounded their pride.
I have read your letter; she thought that she had Jon Hatlen or some other fool to deal with, and not one whom school-master Baard had trained; but now she is in a dilemma. However, you have been too severe, for there are certain women who take to jesting in order to avoid weeping, and who make no difference between the two.
He put his hand to his mouth and whispered a name. An incredulous expression came into Barnes's eyes. "Are you jesting with me, O'Dowd?" "I am not." "But I thought it was nothing more than a make-believe, imaginary land, cooked up by some hair-brained novelist for the purpose of " "Well, ye know better now," said O'Dowd crisply. "Good-bye. I must be on my way.
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