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Right here it is only proper that I should warn you of the consequences of laughing at any story in the Bible. When you come to die, your laughing at this story will be a thorn in your pillow.
"Excuse me for laughing if it was impolite," she said, and walked out of the room, leaving Miss Minchin struggling with her rage, and the girls whispering over their books. "Did you see her? Did you see how queer she looked?" Jessie broke out. "I shouldn't be at all surprised if she did turn out to be something. Suppose she should!" The Other Side of the Wall
The whole matter lay as clear in my mind, as little complicated, as the countryside which met my eye so openly. "Why!" I exclaimed to myself, "I need not envy my friend's lodges. I myself belong to the greatest of all fraternal orders. I am a member of the Universal Brotherhood of Men." It came to me so humorously as I sat there in my buggy that I could not help laughing aloud.
"Do they? Oh, Moses, do be careful. What if they should hurt you?" "Hurt me!" said Moses, laughing; "that's a good one. I'd like to see a fish that could hurt me." "Do hear that boy talk!" said Mrs. Pennel to her husband, as they stood within their chamber-door. "Yes, yes," said Captain Pennel, smiling; "he's full of the matter.
"Oh, Kitty!" cried Margaret, in laughing protest, as she stooped to pick up the litter of Kitty's letters, some of them still unopened, which lay scattered on the grass, as they had fallen unheeded from her lap. But the little figure in the trailing skirts was already out of hearing.
Just as I could never think of Duck-Eyed Joe as George Wilkinson, so you, James Marmaduke Trevor, will live imperishably in my mind as Doggie. I was making a sort of apology, old chap, for my habit of mind." "If it is an apology " said Marmaduke. Oliver, laughing, clapped him boisterously on the shoulder. "Oh, you solemn comic cuss!"
The creepers which twine up those stately trees are very sweetly scented; and how picturesque are the twinings of those vines upon the mimosas. I can not well imagine the garden of Eden to have been more beautiful." "And in another respect there is a resemblance," said the Major, laughing; "the serpent is in it" "Yes, I grant that," replied Swinton.
It seems to me an office about on a par with that of the Lord Mayor of London. For my part, I would rather be a baron of three or four hundred years' antiquity." "We talk in vain," said Redclyffe, laughing. "We do not approach one another's ideas on this subject.
Father told me you were here, Kate, and then we waited until now, to give you a little time, and then I could n't stand it any longer, I had to see you. Father's coming too, but I ran ahead." "Why, Philip," cried Kate, as soon as he gave her an opportunity, kissing him again and laughing light-heartedly as she has not done for days, "how you have grown! You are quite a man now."
"Your son Gerard is more like to be father of a family than a priest: he is for ever with Margaret, Peter Brandt's red-haired girl, and loves her like a cow her calf." Mother and daughter both burst out laughing. Ghysbrecht stared at them. "What! you knew it?" "Carry this tale to those who know not my son, Gerard. Women are nought to him." "Other women, mayhap.
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