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Then, fixing his eyes on it, he threw it aside, and broke into loud, merry laughter. "Well," asked Bonaparte, "what does the letter contain?" "A mystery, my general nothing more than a mystery," cried Junot, presenting the letter to Bonaparte. The letter contained but these words: "Macbeth, you will be king. Junot laughed over this mysterious note, but Bonaparte shared not in his merriment.
When the girl observed that her endeavours had been overheard, she joined her merriment with that of her teacher, and Werner then and there taught her a bugle-call. A few weeks later the nobleman, hearing of a rising of the peasants, hastened to Säckingen to restore order, leaving his daughter and Werner to guard the castle. That night an attempt was made upon the stronghold.
Pyecroft was again in the second maid's room. Mary eagerly sprang forward and caught his hand. "I waited to thank you you were simply superb!" she cried enthusiastically. "I've been telling your sister how wonderful you are. She's got to forgive you I'll make her! And Jack will die laughing when I tell him." She herself burst into excited merriment that half-choked her.
"This intelligence was the cause of much mirth and glee to Mr and Mrs Stanhope; the latter actually cried with delight, and I took care to join heartily in the merriment. As soon as it had subsided, Mrs Stanhope said "`But Mr Selwyn, you said that my daughter was married. How is that?
'Would you rather explain it as magic? Or as the work of fairies? Or do you believe in ghosts? Your muse has fascinated you, you mystic! And I laughed and trilled a line from 'The Mascot, which we had seen the evening before at the Lyric. "But my merriment did not seem to strike an answering note in Lucien.
Brooke to the group at large. "She always makes men laugh so." Emily Fox-Seton felt an interest herself, the merriment sounded so attractive. She wondered if perhaps to a man who had been so much run after a girl who took no notice of his presence and amused other men so much might not assume an agreeable aspect. But he took more notice of Lady Agatha Slade than of any one else that evening.
And when the Sultan of those most distant lands knew that the Creator of All had contrived a device so vastly to his delight his merriment knew no bounds.
Happy was it for us, in the interim, if we did not begin to look at each other and make up faces, or slyly slip off and on our shoes, or some other incipient attempts at roguery, which would gradually so undermine our gravity that there would be some sudden explosion of merriment, whereat Uncle Phineas would look up and say, "Tut, tut," and Aunt Kezzy would make a speech about wicked children breaking the Sabbath day.
I think he dwells a shade too much on her small asperities and acidities, and on that "ton de critique mesquine", which he puts down to her provincialism. No doubt there were moments of suffering and of irritation, as well as moments of uncontrollable merriment, when Charlotte lacked urbanity, but M. Dimnet has almost too keen an eye for them.
"Won't you shake hands with my boy, Amabel?" said Lady Adelaide. "Oh, you must make friends with him, and he'll give you a ride on the rocking-horse after dinner. Surely such a big girl can't be shy?" Goaded by the old reproach, Amabel made an effort, and, advancing by herself, held out her hand, and said, "How do you do, Bogy?" D'Arcy's black eyes twinkled with merriment.
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