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I was no longer that timid, and rather bashful than modest man, who neither dared to present himself, nor utter a word; whom a single pleasantry disconcerted, and whose face was covered with a blush the moment his eyes met those of a woman. I became bold, haughty, intrepid, with a confidence the more firm, as it was simple, and resided in my soul rather than in my manner.
That was a mere pleasantry of Mr. Potts', doubtless. How did the suggestion strike you, Mr. Allan?" Allan looked at him in silence. "I mean, did the suggestion strike you unpleasantly, or how?" "I don't think it made any impression, Sir. I knew it was a joke." "A joke!" groaned his father. "Good Heavens! What do you think ?" "Once more permit me," said Mr.
A woman cannot help fearing that this pleasantry may some day become a very serious matter, for in these crimes of impulse there is a certain proof of love; and then women who know better than any one else how to say true things laughingly at times suspect their husbands of this feminine trick.
"Don't let them little devils of French girls fall in love with my dude in his uniform." Her pretense at pleasantry was almost more than he could bear. "Hear! Hear! Our mother thinks I'm a regular lady-killer! Hear that, Esther?" pinching her cheek. "You are, Leon only only, you don't know it." "Don't you bring down too many beaus while I'm gone, either, Miss Kantor!" "I won't, Leon."
I will send my head to see, in the basket, if it is true that they cheat the condemned, and put sawdust in, instead of bran, which the government allows us." "It is true; the guillotined has a right to his bran. My father was cheated, I recollect," said Nicholas Martial, with a ferocious chuckle. This abominable pleasantry made all the prisoners laugh loudly.
"Renny," said Adrian Landale, returning the glance with one of comfortable friendliness, "you will have to make your peace with Margery; she considers that you neglect me shamefully. Why, you are actually twenty minutes late after three days' journeying, and perils by land and sea!" The Frenchman answered the pleasantry by a broader smile and a scrape. We shall have a grain, number one, soon."
Their sideboard was always stored with exquisite wines placed within their reach when at table, where they enjoyed themselves in agreeable conversation, and afterwards entertained each other with some pleasantry or other, which made them laugh more or less, as they had in the day met with something to divert them; and in the evenings, which they consecrated to mirth, they had generally some slight repast of dried sweetmeats, choice fruits, and cakes, and at each glass invited each other by new songs to drink, and sometimes accompanied their voices with a lute, or other instruments which they could both touch.
Though begun as mere pleasantry, with all the bombast of lyrical emphasis, the invocation terminated in a cry of ardent conviction, quivering with profound poetical emotion, and Sandoz's eyes grew moist; and, to hide how much he felt moved, he added, roughly, with a sweeping gesture that took in the whole scene around: 'How idiotic it is! a soul for every one of us, when there is that big soul there!
He laid the book aside and said, composedly: "Well, the wonderful tragedy is done, and it transpires that I am indebted to you for my late eloquence. What of it? What was all this for and what does it amount to after all? What do you propose to do about it?" "Oh nothing. It is only a bit of pleasantry. When I overheard that conversation I took an early opportunity to ask Mr.
If you have a lot of it, we might go into partnership in the gold business." Before the old man could answer to this pleasantry a whistle was heard up the track, and Pop was forgotten in the excitement attending the arrival of the train. Dislodged from the baggage-truck, the old man looked around for Mr. Monroe, but the superintendent had disappeared.
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