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"No, thank you," he said, nodding amiably to the cowman, "I don't drink." An incredulous murmur passed along the line, mingled with sarcastic mutterings, but the cowman did not stir. "Well, have a cigar, then," he suggested patiently; and the barkeeper, eager to have it over, slapped one down on the bar and raised his glass.
He laughed contemptuously, and slapped the relaxed palm on the desk with a noise which made his sister start. Apparently the diversion recalled something to her mind. "There was a man in here asking about you today," she remarked, in a casual fashion. "Said he was an old friend of yours." "Oh, yes, everybody's my 'old friend' now," he observed with beaming indifference.
Tell me at once, or I shall flog every one of you!" On investigation, a peasant named Sidor was pointed out as the guilty one, and his face was roundly slapped. Michael also severely punished Vasili, because he had not done sufficient work, after which the master rode safely home. In the evening the serfs again assembled, and poor Vasili said: "Oh, what kind of people ARE we, anyway?
Who meeting Cæsar's self would slap his back, Call him 'Old Horse' and challenge to a drink." Mr. Lowell bore no resemblance to this brown-fisted rough. He would not have slapped Cæsar on the back, and he would have resented being himself greeted in such an unconventional fashion.
Finally, toward midnight, as they were going to separate, Loiseau, who was unsteady on his feet slapped him suddenly on the stomach and spluttered: "You are not in a gay mood to-night, you don't talk much, citoyen?" But Cornudet raised briskly his head and casting a swift and terrible look at the company, fairly shouted: "I tell you all, that you have behaved infamously!"
Seeing that, she rose up, and stretched her arms, and spread open the palm of her hand, and slapped Kadza on the cheek and ear a hard slap, so that she heard bells; and ere she ceased to hear them, another, so that Kadza staggered back and screamed, and Feshnavat was moved to exclaim, 'What has the girl, thy favourite, offended in, O my daughter?
The camels, very tired, had lain down close by, and, quietly creeping to Jenny, I slapped her nose, which awoke her with the desired result, viz., a loud roar. The sound of rapidly retreating feet was heard, and their owners troubled us no more.
"We've got none too many friends to stand by us when the pinch comes, and we were losing them every day you held out against Judson." "I'm still holding out on the original count. Judson can't run an engine for me until he has proved conclusively and beyond question that he has quit the whiskey. Whatever other work you can find for him " McCloskey slapped his thigh. "By George!
"You're right there," he answered. "I can't nail myself down to it. It seems like a sort of joke." She looked him over again. "It is a joke," she said. It was as though she had slapped him in the face, though she said it so quietly. He knew he had received the slap, and that, as it was a woman, he could not slap back.
I opened my eyes and saw Stanley, his face pale with the thrill of battle, his chin jutting forward in a berserk line, his eyes snapping with eager, wary fires. I grinned up at him and he slapped me on the back almost completing the choking process started by the salt water I'd inhaled. "That's better. Now at it again!" I don't remember the rest of the tumult.
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