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"And if it had been the case," she asked, with a roguish smile, "would you not have every reason to be grateful to him as well as myself? But really you don't even know what I have brought for you. Aren't you the least curious?" "No military secret, I suppose?" He spoke jestingly, but she nodded seriously. "Yes a great secret. Chance helped me, or I should hardly have got hold of it. There it is!
A familiarity with Alec d'Urberville's presence which that young man carefully cultivated in her by playful dialogue, and by jestingly calling her his cousin when they were alone removed much of her original shyness of him, without, however, implanting any feeling which could engender shyness of a new and tenderer kind.
He continued to rail, half jestingly, half in earnest, at McNamara and Hills, where he had obtained work, thanks to a letter which Sommers had procured for him, at his companion's relations with the well-to-do, which he exaggerated offensively, and at the well-to-do themselves.
"But I found my way here alone, I seem to remember!" "I can go with the old man!" said Marie. "Yes, you come with the old man, then no one can say he has lost his youth!" cried Lasse jestingly, as he took her hand. "I think we two shall be good friends." Toward evening they returned. "There are folks enough here," said Lasse, panting, "but there doesn't seem to be a superfluity of work.
At dinner he affected to be smart, he inquired in a certain superior way about the affairs of the little town, and wondered, jestingly, whether Bertha was not thinking of marrying again. Agatha also took part in this bantering, although, at the same time, she occasionally glanced reprovingly at her husband, who was trying to give the conversation a frivolous turn. Bertha felt ill at ease.
"Hush!" whispered the princess. She turned and gave the prince a friendly welcome. Prince Henry was so happy in her presence, and so dazzled by her beauty, that he did not remark the melancholy of the count, and spoke with him gayly and jestingly, while the count mastered himself, and replied in the same spirit.
They were often silent during long intervals, and sometimes they became talkative and sprightly, but it was observed that, whether they conversed earnestly or jestingly, their converse ran, for the most part, on eating and drinking, and in their uneasy slumbers, during the intervals between the hours of work and watching, they almost invariably dreamed of food.
Counselled by him, the Ranger captain shares his confidence, and they proceed direct towards the point where the tributary stream unites with the main river the little Witchita, along whose banks they have been all that day tracking. Not but that Cully could take up the Indian trail. Despite the obscurity he could do that, though not, as he jestingly declared, by the smell.
It's agin the rules, too, to ask a pris'ner any question that'll criminate him, and on the whole you'd better go, M'liss," added the guard, to whom the appearance of the bottle had been the means of provoking a spasm of discipline. But M'liss refused to make over the coveted treasure. Bill arose half jestingly and endeavored to get possession of the bottle.
"I am thinking of the talisman," answered Jussuf. "Give it me to-day. Haschanascha lies at the point of death." "What of that?" asked she, jestingly: "if there be one such black creature more or less in the world, what consequence is it to you? Come, will you give me your talisman? It has served you well. Be polite for once, and say that you give it me."
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