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Richard at first received her gentle remonstrance with good-natured banter, and generally turned it off with a playful witticism.
He has just said so himself. And I suppose all men feel that. All the nice ones, I mean. It is one of the drawbacks of being rich, is it not?" "I suppose it is," answered Turner, stolidly, without turning an eyelash in the direction of Colville. "Perhaps that is why no one has ever asked me to marry them." Mrs. St. Pierre Lawrence laughed jerkily at this witticism.
And again, "the playfulness of Chopin attacked only the superior keys of the mind, fond of witticism as he was, recoiling from vulgar joviality, gross laughter, common merriment, as from those animals more abject than venomous, the sight of which causes the most nauseous aversion to certain sensitive and delicate natures."
After any witticism of hers, she would give me an inquiring glance, as if she had sought to please me alone by it. She would soothe me if I was vexed; and if she pouted, I had in some sort a right to ask an explanation. Before she would pardon any blunder, she would keep me a suppliant for long. All these things that we so relished, were so many lovers' quarrels.
I remember I used to tell him, when he answered my invitations, that I should have imagined that a fly dipped in ink had crawled over the paper." He laughed for a moment at his former moss-encrusted and ducal witticism, and continued reading Sydney's letter: "However, I have become resigned.
"I hate last days," says my companion, hitting viciously at the iron balcony rails with his stick, and scowling. "'The Last Days of Pompeii," say I, stupidly, and yet laughing again; not because I think my witticism good, which no human being could do, but because I must laugh for very gladness. Another longer pause.
She was new to her position, and forgot his name, and being asked who had arrived, stumbled upon this bon mot: 'Un monsieur, Madame le monsieur de la petite dame, and, being repeated and tossed lightly from hand to hand, it has become at last an established witticism, albeit bandied under breath."
His brother alone could see how he would check the witticism on his very lips lest it should hurt. It was in virtue of his tenderness toward everything that had life that he was able to give such narratives of what he had seen, such descriptions of persons he had met.
Oh, 'tis your only chivalry now, your modern substitute for tilt and tournament; true, Count, as I am a soldier!" "I fear my Dulcinea differs from the herd, then; for she quarrelled with me for supping with St. John three nights ago, and " "St. John," interrupted Fielding, cutting me off in the beginning of a witticism, "St. John, famous fellow, is he not?
What was hinted at home was openly expressed abroad, and in Paris Mary Stuart ventured a cruel witticism that Elizabeth was to conserve in her memory: "The Queen of England," she said, "is about to marry her horse-keeper, who has killed his wife to make a place for her."
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