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Ladies, you have done a great injury to your country you have made this gentleman too happy in domestic life." Lord Oldborough spoke this in a tone of raillery, and with a smile but the smile was succeeded by a deep sigh, and a dark gloom of countenance. At this moment one of his secretaries, Mr. Shaw, came in with papers to be signed. The minister reappeared.
Who can answer that question? Write to me kindly, my dearest Matilda; but when did you otherwise? Yet, again, write to me soon, and write to me kindly. I am not in a situation to profit by advice or reproof, nor have I my usual spirits to parry them by raillery.
What right's that kind of man to come ogling after a decent white girl whose father and mother were married in the Presbyterian Church?" Susan did not take it so much to heart. What was the good when Lucy obviously didn't care? As for Zavier, she felt sorry for him, for those keen observing faculties of hers had told her that the voyageur's raillery hid a real feeling. Poor Zavier was in love.
'M. Nevil, you are a preux of the times of my brother's patronymic. And there is my Roland awaiting us. Is he not handsome? 'How glad you are to have him to relieve guard! Renee bent on Nevil one of her singular looks of raillery. She had hitherto been fencing at a serious disadvantage. 'Not so very glad, she said, 'if that deprived me of the presence of his friend. Roland was her tower.
Perhaps she was protesting that Julia Tavish was a very, very old friend. To an observer this admirable woman seemed to be on the defensive her most alluring attitude. It was not, one could hear, exactly sober talk; there was laughter and raillery and earnestness mingled. It might be said that they were good comrades. Carmen professed to like good comradeship and no nonsense.
There is a pretty picture of that ancient supper-room at No. 2 Bulfinch Place, Boston Miss Fisher's kitchen as it appeared when William Warren sat behind the mound of lobsters, at the head of the table, while the polished pewters reflected the cheerful light, and wit and raillery enlivened the happy throng, and many a face was wreathed with smiles that now is dark and still forever.
Continuation of Clarendon's Life, p. 168. Among the men were Francisco de Melo, brother to the Countess de Panetra; one Taurauvedez, who called himself Don Pedro Francisco Correo de Silva, extremely handsome, but a greater fool than all the Portuguese put together: he was more vain of his names than of his person; but the Duke of Buckingham, a still greater fool than he, though more addicted to raillery, gave him the additional name of Peter of the Wood.
He had no time to lose: Fogg must be detained at Hong Kong, so he resolved to make a clean breast of it. "Listen to me," said Fix abruptly. "I am not, as you think, an agent of the members of the Reform Club " "Bah!" retorted Passepartout, with an air of raillery. "I am a police detective, sent out here by the London office." "You, a detective?" "I will prove it. Here is my commission."
Through all this raillery there was something indulgent in the lady's eye which made me suppose there might be better coming. "You take a pleasure to torment me," said I, "and I make a very feckless plaything; but let me ask you to be more merciful. At this time there is but the one thing that I care to hear of, and that will be news of Catriona." "Do you call her by that name to her face, Mr.
The jest is well known of my poor countryman, who, driven to extremity by the raillery of the Southern, on the small denomination of the Scottish coin, at length answered, 'Aye, aye! 'Better pray for it than drink for it, Robin, said Mr. Trumbull. 'Yours is a dangerous trade, Robin; it hurts mony a ane baith host and guest.
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