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Her voice had the shrewish tone it sometimes got. "It's not very lively, always going about with you. It's always do you love me, do you love me, till I just get about sick of it." He knew it was madness to go on asking her that, but he could not help himself. "Oh, I like you all right," she would answer. "Is that all? I love you with all my heart." "I'm not that sort, I'm not one to say much."
The dialogue was interrupted here by the arrival of Zoeth and, a moment later, Captain Shadrach. Breakfast was put upon the table in the dining-room and the quartette sat down to eat. Mary-'Gusta was quiet during the meal; she answered when spoken to but the only questions she asked were concerning David. "He's all right," said Captain Shad. "Lively as can be.
The captain watched him for a moment, his great jaw thrust grimly out. Then, as on a pivot, he whirled toward Jeff. "Come here, you! Step lively, Sport!" Farnum wondered whether he was about to undergo an experience similar to that of the sailor. "Do you want to know what kind of a ship this is?" "No, sir. I'm perfectly satisfied about that," smiled his victim.
As the "Yankee's" guns replied, a two-masted steamer made her appearance from within the harbor and vanished behind the keys. The fusillade was lively, we firing fully one hundred rounds, but there was little damage done. After a time, the launch retreated, and we went outside for the night. "It's the last of that scrap," remarked Tommy, the boatswain's mate, as he piped down.
A young girl of twenty is not a severe judge of a handsome, lively young man, who knows far more of the world than she does; and though Harry's conversation was a perfect Catherine-wheel of all sorts of wild talk, sneering, bitter, and sceptical, and giving expression to the most heterodox sentiments, with the evident intention of shocking respectable authorities, Rose rather liked him than otherwise; though she now and then took the liberty to stand upon her dignity, and opened her great blue eyes on him with a grave, inquiring look of surprise, a look that seemed to challenge him to stand and defend himself.
But don't forget, when the lecturer says, 'Bosco, Bosco, the armless wonder! play up lively, see? and when he says, 'Bites their heads off and eats their bodies; eats 'em alive, eats 'em alive! give it to her thumpin'!" Here Von Barwig drew a deep breath. He was tired, tired unto his very soul of the whole business; but he had to go on.
Her appeal was, however, indirectly acknowledged, for Sabina received another letter from Raymond in which he mentioned Miss Ironsyde's communication. "My aunt," he wrote, "does not realise the situation, or appreciate the fact that love may remain a much more enduring and lively emotion outside marriage than inside it.
Why was I lively and gay when I loved you as a friend? Why am I all changed since I love you as a lover? I do not know. Why have I waited so long to find you both handsome and good? to love you at once with my eyes and my heart? I do not know; or, rather, yes, I do know: it is because I have discovered how much you loved me without ever telling it; how much you were generous and devoted.
Ought not sublime matters be made to walk in majestic solemnity, the mild to keep in a gentle pace, the brisk and lively to bound with rapidity, and the nice and delicate to flow smoothly?
She gave him up altogether, and denied, or at least gave him grudgingly, that praise, which he eminently deserved for agreeable manners and conversational talents. Not a foible of his now escaped her quick observation and her lively perception of ridicule.
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