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She wrote to me complaining about this, and on taking leave of the King to go and reign in Portugal, she said, with rather a forced air of raillery: "I shall hate you as long as I live, and if ever you do me the honour of paying me a visit some day at Lisbon, I'll have you burned for your pains."
For the verb vide D'Urfey's Madam Fickle , Act v, I, where Zechiel cries to his brother: 'Banter him, banter him, Toby. 'Tis a conceited old Scarab, and will yield us excellent sport go play upon him a little exercise thy Wit. cf. Swift, Apology , Talke of a Tub: 'Where wit hath any mixture of raillery, 'tis but calling it banter, and the work is done.
Then, when all is settled, the social style with which he asks you to take a "cutlet" with him at the "Clarendon," not to go home are only to be equalled by the admirable tact on the ground the studiously elegant salute to the adverse party, half a la Napoleon, and half Beau Brummell the politely offered snuff-box the coquetting raillery about 10 paces or 12 are certainly the beau ideal of the stoicism which preludes sending your friend out of the world like a gentleman.
It was as if she felt that she had already guided Blake into the straight and narrow way that leads up out of the primitive. They found Dolores industriously shocking her mother by a persistent heckling of Lord James, who was smiling at her quips and sallies and twirling his little blond mustache as if he enjoyed the raillery. "Oh, here's Vievie, at last!" cried the girl.
He scarcely looked at them, and went out when he had mended the fire, and left it purring. "Where is Andy Morrison?" asked Bartley. "Has he gone back?" "No; he is at the hotel over there. I told him to wait till I found out when the train went north." "So you inquired when it went to Boston," said Bartley, with a touch of his old raillery. "Come," he added, taking her hand under his arm.
All the army, in like manner, with boughs of laurel in their hands, divided into their bands and companies, followed the chariot of their commander; some singing verses, according to the usual custom, mingled with raillery; others, songs of triumph, and the praise of Aemilius's deeds; who, indeed, was admired and accounted happy by all men, and unenvied by every one that was good; except so far as it seems the province of some god to lessen that happiness which is too great and inordinate, and so to mingle the affairs of human life that no one should be entirely free and exempt from calamities; but, as we read in Homer, that those should think themselves truly blessed to whom fortune has given an equal share of good and evil.
Cecilia was still meditating upon this letter, by which her perplexity how to act was rather encreased than diminished, when, to her great surprise, Lady Honoria Pemberton was announced. She hastily begged one of the Miss Charltons to convey Fidel out of sight, from a dread of her raillery, should she, at last, be unconcerned in the transaction, and then went to receive her.
"You looked as mournful," said West, with that same little laugh, "as though you had lost your last friend. Now " "No, not my last one," said Sharlee. "Well, don't look so sad about it," he said, in a voice of affectionate raillery. "I am quite unhappy enough over it without " "I'm afraid I can't help you to feel happier not to-night. If I look sad, you see, it is because I feel that way."
With his bluff raillery he inquired of her how she had the conscience to grudge her husband the triumph of knowing that she had shed a tun of tears for his absence yesterday and had demanded of the commandant of the post that the whole strength of the garrison should instantly take the field to search for him. "For discipline," she answered, with placid solemnity.
This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice. Neither is it true that this fineness of raillery is offensive; a witty man is tickled, while he is hurt in this manner; and a fool feels it not. The occasion of an offence may possibly be given, but he cannot take it.
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