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Sir, sack will make a cat sing, and speak too; so up with a merry stave, or trundle yourself out of my doors! Do you think you are to take up all my valuable time with your d-d declarations, and then tell me you cannot sing?"
By the way, whither wend ye, wenches?" "To a bonny, jolly fair," answered the sinister voice of Graul, "Where a mighty SHOWMAN dyes The greenery into red; Where, presto! at the word Lies his Fool without a head; Where he gathers in the crowd To the trumpet and the drum, With a jingle and a tinkle, Graul's merry lasses come!"
At nightfall, as things are beginning to grow wild and merry, Luzio appears, and sings an extravagant carnival song, with the refrain: Who joins us not in frolic jest Shall have a dagger in his breast; by which means he seeks to stir the crowd to bloody revolt.
But the beautiful merry eyes had deepened in expression, and it was, if anything, a still more attractive face than of old, although the fair unconsciousness of childhood had departed; and if mischief still lurked in the dimpled cheeks, that was because Betty's heart could never grow old; no matter what life might hold for her of joy or sorrow, she would always be to a certain extent a child.
The cake was cut, and the favors and bonbons distributed at the birthday supper, and it was then that my father’s kindly, genial nature overflowed in merriment. He would have something droll to say to everyone, and under his attentions the shyest child would brighten and become merry.
Only that we know Kenyon's errand, we could hardly forgive him for venturing into the Corso with that troubled face. Even yet, his merry martyrdom was not half over. There came along a gigantic female figure, seven feet high, at least, and taking up a third of the street's breadth with the preposterously swelling sphere of her crinoline skirts.
None of these fiercer moods did the boy know; what he knew was his uncle's merry side his sympathetic, loving side, and so, following up his advantage, he strode across the room, settled down on the arm of his uncle's chair, and put his arm about his shoulders. "Won't you go and see her, please?" he pleaded, patting his back, affectionately. "What good will that do? Hand me a match, Harry."
My own small place here, in the New Forest, has been known for centuries as "the Merry Gardens," and no doubt they were once grown here, as at other places in the south of England, called Merry Hills, Merry Fields, and Merry Orchards.
Tom, nevertheless, persisting in his intention, and opening his lips to speak again, Jonas set upon him like a savage; and in the quickness and ferocity of his attack would have surely done him some grievous injury, defenceless as he was, and embarrassed by having his frightened sister clinging to his arm, if Merry had not run between them, crying to Tom for the love of Heaven to leave the house.
The professor passed his hand, which trembled a little, over her shining hair, saying, with a paternal smile, "I shall kiss my daughter in the way that best pleases me. I am going to be a very strict and exacting father." She laughed gleefully, as if it were the best joke in the world, and her merry "Good-night, dear father," followed him as he went out into the darkness. He held Mr.
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