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Her study of a hill girl, begun half jestingly, as a contrast to Michael's flower of Western Maidenhood, had so grown and beautified under her hands, that it had been voted worthy of a Home Exhibition; and its case now stood against the wall, awaiting mail day. Three or four unfinished pictures leaned against the easel. Quita looked through them, aimlessly, in search of a congenial subject.
The morning was wet and gloomy; it was that drizzling and misty rain which is so especially nutritious to the growth of blue devils, and the jolly squire failed not to rally his young friend upon his feminine susceptibility to the influences of the weather. Clifford replied jestingly; and the jest, if bad, was good enough to content the railer.
Did some shadow of this destiny bear part in his sadness? Certain it is that, by a curious chance, he himself in Julian and Maddalo jestingly foretold the manner of his end. "O ho! Did no unearthly dixisti sound in his ears as he wrote it? But a brief while, and Shelley, who could not swim, was weltering on the waters of Lerici.
Stone," she said to me one day, half jestingly, "and that would get you out of some of your staid ways." I replied with a smile that, as she did not take young ladies to board, there was small chance of that, and had thought of her remark no more. But now, in the tender gloaming of an April day, I felt that I did love, and with as ardent a passion as any man ever owned.
That's just the way he looked in 'Stolen Sweets' last winter." "Well, he looks like a calf, I think," returned Gabriella severely. "I suppose you may keep it out until you get tired of it, but please try to be sensible, Fanny." Though she spoke jestingly, she was secretly disturbed by the discovery of the photograph.
There is any quantity of bosh let loose on poor, long-suffering humanity, and labeled Science." "That comes with bad grace from an embryo scholar. If I were you I would throw education 'to the dogs' and take things on trust like Thomas, or the Mill Road people," I said, jestingly. "I want to know for myself; and so not get cheated by every crank who airs his theories."
"I am going to have a look at the section on the way," he said; "just to see that the river has not come over the top," he added jestingly. "It's a whim of mine. But don't come if you'd rather not. I can join you at the steps." "Oh, I'll come," said Garstin without enthusiasm. The pair stepped out into the night, Trevannion locking the door behind him. It was pitch-dark on the wharf.
"I had an unpleasant dream last night about this very ring " "Ah!" ejaculated the King; "Did you dream that I had dropped it in the sea on my way to The Islands yesterday?" He spoke jestingly, yet with a kindly air, and Lutera gained courage to look boldly up and straight into his eyes.
From time to time a letter appeared in Mrs. Mayburn's favorite journal signed by the initials of the traveller; and these epistles she cut out and pasted most carefully in a book which Grace jestingly called her "family Bible." But as time passed, Graham occupied less and less space in the thoughts of all except his aunt.
"There's no help for it," the doctor said jestingly; "there must be somebody in hell, you know."
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