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"But, aside with joking, Grey, I really think, that if any man of average ability dare rise in the House, and rescue many of the great questions of the day from what Dugald Stuart or Disraeli would call the spirit of Political Religionism, with which they are studiously mixed up, he would not fail to make a great impression upon the House, and a still greater one upon the country."
I laid my hand on her arm, holding her a while, and we looked at each other through the dusk. "You couldn't do more if he were my son." "Oh if he had been your son he'd have kept out of it! I like him for himself. He's simple and sane and honest he needs affection." "He would have quite the most remarkable of mothers-in-law!" I commented. Mrs. Pallant gave a small dry laugh she wasn't joking.
"Curly," says her pa to me "why, Curly, it can't be! She's hiding she's just joking; she wouldn't do this with her old pa. She's scared me awful. Come on, let's find her, and tell her she mustn't do this way no more. There's some things a man can't stand." "Colonel," says I, "we got to stand it. She's gone and it ain't no joke." "How do you know?" He turned on me savage now. "Damn you!
If anything's going to happen, on this night of the fifteenth of April, we'll put nothing in our friends' way. They shall have full and entire liberty. It's up to them, this time." Though joking, Don Luis was nevertheless singularly impressed, as he himself said, by the terrible recollection of the two crimes which he had been unable to prevent and by the haunting vision of the two dead bodies.
After her aunt and Helen Brabazon between them had put her to bed, and he had come in, alone, to see how she was, she had said abruptly: "I wonder if it's true that doctors can keep a secret better than most men?" And when he had made some joking answer, she had asked, in a very serious tone: "You're a great friend of Lionel Varick, eh?"
Fortescue spoken less gravely and not been so obviously in earnest, I should have thought he was joking. "You don't mean Was it a paper-chase?" I said, rather foolishly. "No; it was not a paper-chase," he answered, grimly. "There were no paper-chases in my time. I mean that I was once hunted, just as we have been hunting that fox." "With a pack of hounds?" "Yes, with a pack of hounds."
"I'm waiting to have some one tell me that our team is going to wipe up the ground with both Allandale and Belleville when we come to grips. Is your news of that sort, Limpy?" Of course he was only joking when he said this.
Sydney Smith, with his incorrigible habit of joking, questioned the existence of Quaker babies a position which, if proven, would, of course, at once account for the diminution of adult members of the sect.
"John Freake joking in money matters?" said he, smiling. "Tell it not when you get to town, Oliver, or you'll be the ruin of a hard-won reputation. I sent you sixty guineas odd." "Yes, sir." "Which is, to be precise, slightly less than two per cent of what you saved me when you snatched me out of the dirty grip of Brocton's rascals.
Old Green was tolerable shrewd, and along with a passion for natural history and its wonders, he didn't leave human nature out of account. He was going on with his own life very clever, unknown to all but one person, and among his varied interests was a boy-like love of practical joking.
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