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The lady's nose grew deeper of tint, and the look she shot at him had quite a killing vindictiveness. With evident difficulty she forced a smile. "Oh, you MUST have heard of me!" she declared, with a ponderous attempt at playfulness "You read the papers, don't you?" "Some of them," returned Villiers cautiously "Not all. Not the Sunday ones, for instance."
If you'll try to rouse yourself " And he reached over and caught her hand with an attempt at playfulness. "Cheer up, Mary! You're coming away from North Valley." She turned and looked at him. "Am I?" she asked, impassively; and she went on studying his face. "Who are ye, Joe Smith? What are ye doin' here?" "Working in a coal-mine," he laughed, still trying to divert her.
"And I thank you, my fair friend," he continued, turning more familiarly to Fluella. "I hope to come, some time. But why do you speak of the first snows?" "O, the birds take wing for a warmer country about that time, and perhaps some who have not wings may be off with them," replied Fluella, in the same tone of playfulness and emotion.
Those who had enjoyed the easy grace of Lamb, the swift lightnings of Carlyle, the eloquence, playfulness and tenderness of Ruskin, the lucid suavity of Newman, were sure to conclude in their haste that the prose of Johnson was a thing pompous, empty and dull. But against all these indictments a reaction has now begun. Like other reactions its first utterances are apt to be extravagant.
He marked her, he looked, with eyes rendered clear from jealousy, for some sign, it mattered not how small, to say she preferred the society of others to his own; ready as he was to look on the darkest side of things, he felt the hesitating glance, the timid tone with which she had latterly addressed him, contrary as it was to the mischievous playfulness which had formerly marked her intercourse with him, was dearer, oh, how much dearer than the gaiety in which she had indulged with others.
Gowlasher liked to show me the funny little tricks of this animal; but if Freddie had attempted to touch the arm of an English groom, he would have been promptly struck across the muzzle, because his playfulness would have been misunderstood.
I drank seven cups; as I was beginning the eighth, I heard a crash, and the next moment a man leaped into the room through the broken window. The crash startled me from my self-control. The housekeeper bent toward me and whispered, "Don't be excited. It's Mr. Rawjester, he prefers to come in sometimes in this way. It's his playfulness, ha! ha! ha!" "I perceive," I said calmly.
There is no history of events below the surface. She shook off her briny blindness, and settled to the full sweep of the arms, quite silent now. Some emotion, or exhaustion from the strain of the swimmer's breath in speech, stopped her playfulness.
The thought shot across his heaven what a lovely wedding present it would make! and the meteor drew a long train of shining fancies after it. When he called, as he had said, in the evening, she looked much better, and there was even a touch of playfulness in her manner. He could not but hope some crisis had been passed. The money she had received for the ring had probably something to do with it.
Somebody's, whose son's tutor you were likely to be; and would to God the dancing demon may conduct you at last in peace and comfort to the "life and labours of a cottager"! You see from the above awkward playfulness of fancy that my spirits are not quite depressed.
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