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"But how can it stay on that way?" she objected. "It'll come right off as soon as you use it." "It'll harden on tight enough." "Why?" she persisted. "Does it shrink much when it dries?" Senor Johnson stared to see if she might be joking. "Does it shrink?" he repeated slowly. "There ain't nothing shrinks more, nor harder. It'll mighty nigh break that wood."
"Ho, ho!" exclaimed he, in his usual, sarcastic tone, "what a hurry you are in! I suppose you have come to say the wedding-day is fixed at last?" "No!" replied Claudet, briefly, "there will be no wedding." Julien tottered, and turned to face his cousin. "What's that? Are you joking?" "I am in no mood for joking. Reine will not have me; she has taken back her promise."
I repeated in amazement; "you are joking!" "I am not given to joking, and don't like it." "Why, she is a year older than you are." "What of it? but let's drop the subject." "Let me ask one question," I said. "Does she know that you mean to marry her?" "Most likely." "But haven't you declared your feelings?" "What is there to declare? When the time comes I shall tell her. Come, that's enough."
Nothing would do, however, but that each of the twenty should empty out his basket, with much laughing and joking, and thereby prove his innocence of having plundered the plantation. As a peace offering, my mother directed me to give them some twists of tobacco and tins of salmon and biscuit.
But don't you see, dear old pet! his morals, at least, are safe on horseback. 'The horse has to be paid for, Louisa, said her mother, sternly; and then, for she had a lesson to read to the guests of her son, 'Ready money doesn't come by joking. What will the creditors think? If he intends to be honest in earnest, he must give up four-feet mouths.
I too have it in me to make sacrifices! There are forces in me, I feel, which Felipe has no use for; and if I am not to be a mother, I must be allowed to indulge myself in some romantic sorrow. I have just made this remark to my belated Moor, and it brought tears to his eyes. He cannot stand any joking on his love, so I let him off easily, and only called him a paladin of folly.
I answered, "Capt., you ought to be with me when I come down here to trade with them. You would then see the real thing. I will acknowledge that I get all the hand-shaking that I can stand up to, but as far as kissing and hugging is concerned, that the squaws save for their own if they give them to anyone." The Capt. laughed and answered, "Well putting joking aside, Mr.
This kind of domiciliary visit may appear a joking matter, but to live under a state of siege is no subject for pleasantry, as I shall show further on. Here is another instance of the comic side of annexation, if the adjective could be applied to such a subject. In the salon I noticed a sofa cushion, covered, as I thought to my astonishment, with the Prussian flag.
But let me ask you one question, how are you sure of your income of fifty crowns a month? You are laughing." "I laugh because I am such a silly little thing. I don't have any heed for my own business. My friend there will tell you all about it." "You have not been joking, have you?" said the worthy old man to me.
Buss declared that it meant that she should be three times married, and the last would be an Alderman, if not Lord Mayor; and Mrs. Royer was joking Miss Bridgeman on the I of her apple-paring, which could stand for nothing but a certain Incle among 'the Cockpit folk, who was her special detestation.
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