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He eats too much anyway, that's why he has such awful dreams." "Dream nothing," shouted Dick, half angry, half puzzled. "Do you mean to stand there and tell me that you didn't turn the camp upside down last night by shooting some sort of an animal?" "Absolutely," declared Garry firmly. "That must have been some dream that you had last night," chimed in Phil, carrying out the joke.
But the first blaze of her wrath and indignation had passed away; and now fear was coming uppermost. "Surely, Keith, you cannot be dreaming of such a mad thing! Oh, it is impossible! It is a joke: it was to frighten me; it was to punish me, perhaps. Well, I have deserved it; but now now you have succeeded; and you will let me go ashore, farther down the river." Her tone was altered.
I could now account for his dying smile, the only one he had ever given me. He had been a grave man all his life; it was strange that he should die in the enjoyment of a joke; and it was hard that that joke should be at my expense. The lawyer and the parson seemed at a loss to comprehend the matter. "Here must be some mistake," said the lawyer, "there is no will here."
"Faith and it will prove the best joke of our lives, over which we will often laugh at our fireside hereafter. Come now, cousin, make the best of it; it is the best for you as well as for me. You know I always intended to marry you, and I have the hearty sanction of all the high contracting powers."
To my relief he had laughed, appearing to treat the matter of her annoyance and suspicion as a joke, though the sending of the telegram he looked upon, naturally, as a very grave matter.
This was as near to a quarrel as these two had ever approached. Bob, listening around the corner of the house, was holding his sides to keep from bursting into laughter, though my own opinion is that he should have felt sorry for his "joke." It might have resulted disastrously, for either Susan or the hired man might have broken a leg or an arm. But Bob never thought of that.
I looked at him significantly and said: "Ah, yes, of course for your business you must find it very inconvenient," and laughed. He saw he had been caught and laughed too. It was a very old joke, but he had not expected it at that particular moment, and on the top of such an innocent remark. The Return of the Jews to Palestine
"Madam," he said, "I thank you for your kind invitation, but it will be impossible for us to accept. I had intended to break the good news earlier, but this little game of burglar-in-a-corner prevented me. The fact is, your Jap has been discovered to have nothing more serious than chicken-pox, and if you will forgive a poultry yard joke, there is no longer any necessity for your being cooped up."
I was about to order the sentence to be carried out when the innkeeper flung himself again upon his knees and cried out loudly as much to my astonishment as to the regret of the bystanders, who were bent on seeing so strange a shoeing feat "One word, my lord! One word! I can give you no joke! But I can do a service, a service to the King! I can disclose a plot, a wicked conspiracy against him!"
Don't go without me; I'm alone; I want to go up to the house." Silence still; another pause and then a deliberate walk onwards, which roused Jack to veritable anger. This was evidently not Ruth but Mollie, and Mollie must be taught that there was a point when a joke ceased to be a joke, and that, bound or free, Jack Melland must be obeyed.
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