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"And, pray you, which were better to have a stone or a butterfly to your wife?" asked Hugh, laughingly. "The stone, in good surety," said Bertram. "Very well," responded Hugh, rather drily; "but the stone might hurt thee." The summer passed very quietly at Cardiff, except for one incident.
"It is quite a venture for you, old fellow, isn't it?" he said, laughingly, and yet his voice sounded exceedingly kind and touched. "Not with that child, Arthur," replied the other man, simply. "Well, Ina is a good girl," assented Carroll. "Both of them are good girls. She will make you a good wife."
Seeing this, her father proposed to carry her, but she laughingly declined the proposal. Whereupon Nigel offered to lend her a hand over the rougher places, but this she also declined. Then Moses, stepping forward, asserted his rights. "It's my business," he said, "to carry t'ings when dey's got to be carried.
"In our home," smiled Hsiang-yuen, "there exist, it is true, at present several halls and structures, but as I don't live in either, there'll be no fun in it were I to borrow the name of any one of them!" "Our venerable senior just said," Pao-ch'ai observed laughingly, "that there was also in your home a water-pavilion called 'leaning on russet clouds hall, and is it likely that it wasn't yours?
The clay Eros, who with bent knee was aiming at a victim visible to himself alone, was also his work. Antony, when paying his second visit, had laughingly laid the garland he wore before "the greatest of human conquerors," while a short time ago his son Antyllus had rudely thrust his bouquet of flowers into the opening of the curved right arm which was drawing the string.
"Certainly," she replied laughingly. "It will be less embarrassing if there is no witness of my gluttony." Stane once more left the camp, taking with him a hatchet, and presently returned dragging with him branches of young spruce with which he formed a bed a little way from the tent, and within the radius of the heat from the fire.
"Yes, you might fetch me a piece of soap," answered Butler laughingly. "I reckon you'll use sand, young man," answered Orell witheringly. The Pony Rider Boys made their way back to the camp, wet but happy, the only dissatisfied one in the crowd being Stacy Brown. But their troubles for the night were not wholly over yet. Their initiation was not yet complete.
I left you making your way on the stage, and now I find you a songstress. Faith, my dear, are you thinking of going back to your early days when you did nothing but sing songs?" he added laughingly. "Not quite that, sir, but I always did love singing, as you know. And so do you, sir, or you would never have persuaded the good duchess to spend so much money on me."
In the West we don't use anything like so much slang as you seem to use in New York." "Oh, come now!" he exclaimed, laughingly, and apparently not the least out of countenance, "you made him think he was the only pebble on the beach. I have no idea what you were talking about." "Literature," she said. "Perhaps that was the reason why you couldn't understand it."
Walter complimented M. La Tour so heartily upon his good taste that he laughingly reminded Walter of our first acquaintance at the Bon Laboreur, and asked him if he still had a poor opinion of the French cuisine. "Not when you have anything to do with the ordering, my dear fellow!" was the response.
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