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Think what it would be to her to have this battered old vaurien thrown on her hands, to be the stock subject for all the righteous tongues. Besides, as she coughed, 'the English climate would make an end of me outright. I'm in a bad way enough here, where I can sit among the lemon trees half the days in the winter, but the English fireside in a stuffy parlour and she shuddered.
He laughed outright, throwing out both hands toward us. "Eenglis sportmen!" he said simply. "What's that got to do with it?" Will retorted. He has the unaccountable American dislike of being mistaken for an Englishman, but long ago gave up arguing the point, since foreigners refuse, as a rule, to see the sacred difference. "I am, too, sportman. At Zeitoon there is very good sport. Bear. Antelope.
The king's daughter in that certain kingdom had been so serious that the king had offered her to any one who would make her laugh; and when she saw Dumbling with the goose under his arm and the maids and the parson and all the rest following after, she laughed outright. She didn't mean to, but she couldn't help it. And now Dumbling is a prince, and is living happily ever afterward.
The woman continued to gaze at her, as if tempted to laugh outright; then the pleasant blue eyes hardened as their vision swept beyond toward Hampton. "It is extremely kind of you, I 'm sure," she said at last. "Why is it I am to be thus honored?" The girl backed partially off the doorstep, her hair flapping in the wind, her cheeks flushed.
No one but Ester knew how much these sentences cost her; but the swift, bright look telegraphed her from Abbie's eyes seemed to repay her. Ralph laughed outright. "Four against one," he said gaily. "I've gone over to the enemy's side myself, you see, on account of the pressure.
"Come, little gal, let me lift you out; harnsome is as harnsome does, you know. I hope you ain't tired, nor nothing." Mary began to weep outright. She tried to smile and force the tears back with her eyelids; but the woman's kind words had unlocked her little grateful heart, and she could only sob out "Thank you thank you very much; but I suppose I'm not to stop here, it's only Isabel."
How little you know me!" said John, tenderly. "It was at Peter that I was presuming to smile." "Is it a laughing matter?" she said wistfully. "I think it will be, Mary." "I tried so hard to tell him," said Lady Mary, "but I couldn't. Somehow he made it impossible. He looks upon me as quite, quite old." John laughed outright. A laugh that rang true even to Lady Mary's sensitive perceptions.
Scarcely had he spoken these words, when a cannon-ball tore through his staff, killing one general outright, wounding another, and shattering the frame of Duroc, Duc de Friuli. Napoleon was deeply affected by this occurrence. He dismounted, went into the cottage where Duroc was taken, and for some time pressed his hand in silence.
Some blushed, some assumed an air of pride and dignity, some looked straight forward, and essayed to seem utterly unconscious of what was going on, some drew back in alarm, which was perhaps affected, some endeavoured to forbear smiling, and there were two or three who laughed outright.
And the others agreed to treat Dan Baxter in the same manner. But the boys were not so considerate, and Tom laughed outright when he caught sight of Baxter swabbing up some dirt on the rear deck. This made the bully's passion arise on the instant and he caught up his bucket as if to throw it at Tom's head. "Don't you dare, Baxter!" cried Tom. "If you do we'll have a red-hot war."
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