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"And if I got to know more poetry I might be able to help Owen with his articles," she said, smiling happily, reassured by his friendly counsel. "Of course they were quite right I am stupid and ignorant, but if I work hard I think I ought to be able to make myself useful to Owen, oughtn't I, Mr. Herrick?" "Don't work too hard," he said, half jesting, half in earnest.
The beautiful ballet- girls will soon dance before empty benches." "But do not let me die with curiosity, your excellency. Tell me at length what has occurred." "A surprise, prince. The Emperor Alexander will reach Berlin within an hour!" "Are you not jesting? Do you speak in earnest?" "In dead earnest, prince.
Will you have some water—some brandy? I daresay they have some in the public-house down there, if you’ll let me run.’ ‘Have done with this nonsense!’ cried I, sternly. She looked confounded—almost frightened again, for a moment. ‘You know I hate such jests,’ I continued. ‘Jests indeed! I wasn’t jesting!’
M. de la Marche could see me, and, in fact, did see me, as I intended he should. I was burning to have a quarrel with him. Edmee started and turned red; but immediately assuming an air of indolent playfulness, she said: "Really, Bernard, you are as gallant this morning as a court abbe. Do you happen to have been composing a madrigal last night?" I was peculiarly mortified at this jesting.
Blyth's kind heart, quick intelligence, and devoted affection for her adopted child, had long since impressed it on her, as the first of duties and pleasures, to prevent Madonna from feeling the excluding influences of her calamity, while in the society of others, by keeping her well informed of every one of the many conversations, whether jesting or earnest, that were held in her presence, in the invalid-room.
"At the convocation of these miserable peasants who, in their parricidal folly, have dared to dream of the overthrow of the best of princes!" Martial's face betrayed successively profound surprise, and a more violent desire to laugh. "I think you must be jesting, Monsieur," he replied. The young man's words and manner reassured the duke a little, without entirely dissipating his suspicions.
A jest book it certainly is, and the most prosperous of jest books, but undoubtedly never meant for such by the author. A man whose lips are livid with anger does not jest, and does not understand jesting. Still, the Edinburgh Reviewer is right about the proper functions of the book, though wrong about the intentions of the author.
Was this Eugene who was always moving about quietly when he was near her, getting angry at times, but always feeling sorry and apologizing? She had boasted to some of her friends, and particularly to Marietta, in a friendly, jesting way that she could wind Eugene around her little finger. He was so easy-going in the main, so quiet.
I know nothing about letters, not I. Jesting then about the right hand, which was vehement in action, he said with a smile to Michelangelo: 'That statue of yours, is it blessing or cursing? To which the sculptor replied: 'Holy Father, it is threatening this people of Bologna if they are not prudent." Michelangelo's letter to Fattucci confirms Condivi's narrative.
"Of course I said 'Yes'; but then he turned on me in a rage, and reproached me bitterly for deceiving and cheating him, and jesting with things that to him were sacred, though I might think them a subject for sport. "I assured him that my answer was as earnest as it was accurate, and that every word of my story was true. "This only made him more furious.
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