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He could not help doing so. That naïve avowal from the one whom he considered his chief enemy tickled his fancy. And presently Menocal, catching the humour of it, himself began to smile. "I shouldn't be surprised if we have had a misconception of each other," Lee stated. "Ah, cielos! That is nothing less than the truth.
My pride, my darling pride, was tickled at the triumph of my talents; and as I wiped away the perspiration from my forehead, I related my difficulties, my trials, and my success, with a degree of self-complacency that in any other person I should have called egregious vanity.
I had intended to send you about some years ago; but I was lonely, and there was something in your spirit which amused me. You tickled my fancy. But now, I am weary; the pastime palls; you no longer amuse." The Chevalier stood in the midst of chaos. He was experiencing that frightful plunge of Icarus, from the clouds to the sea. He was falling, falling.
"Yes, and I hope you gave them something to remember it," said the boy, with his eyes fixed upon the stout crook upon which the new-comer leaned. "Oh yes, I made them feel this," said the man, with a chuckle; "and old Lupus tickled them up a bit and made them squeak." "That's right," cried Marcus; "but where is he?" "On guard," said the man. "On guard?" "Yes," said the man, with a chuckle.
My uncle Toby and Trim sought comfort in each other's faces but found it not: my father clapped both his hands upon his cod-piece, which was a way he had when any thing hugely tickled him: for though he hated a monk and the very smell of a monk worse than all the devils in hell yet the shot hitting my uncle Toby and Trim so much harder than him, 'twas a relative triumph; and put him into the gayest humour in the world.
"You seem tickled to think they're after you," Johnny observed, rolling a cigarette by way of manifesting complete unconcern. "What's the next move?" "Get me across without letting them see where we come from. Can you fly at night?" "Sure, I can fly at night. Don't the Germans fly at night all over London? I won't swear I'll light easy, though." "There'll be a moon," said Cliff.
Now Zelda could not have done more than the inviting and so many could invite. He rose and stood near her. "Katie, you don't mean to marry Prescott, do you?" She clapped her hands above her head and laughed like a child immensely tickled about something. He laughed, too, and then asked to be informed what he was laughing at. "Oh, you're just laughing because I am," laughed Katie.
And the mornin' we started she met us at the Jonesville Depot in good sperits and a barege delaine dress, cream color, and a hat of the same. I hadn't seen her for some weeks, and she seemed softly tickled to see Josiah and me, and asked a good many questions about Jonesville, kinder turnin' the conversation gradually round onto bread, as I could see.
But she lay awake telling off the reasons she would put before him in the morning; and in the dark allowed herself a tender, tickled little smile at his expense. "What a man he is for loading himself up with the wrong sort of people!" she reflected. "And then afterwards, he gets tired of them, and impatient with them as is only natural." At breakfast she came back on the subject herself.
Pantin doubled her fist and smote the davenport. "I doubt very much if she'd come, even if you ask her," said Pantin. It was a stroke of genius. "Not come!" The eye which Mrs. Pantin exposed regarded Mr. Pantin scornfully. "Not come? Why, she'd be tickled to pieces." But of that Mr. Pantin continued to have his own opinion. Mrs. Pantin sat up and winked rapidly in her indignation.
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