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Whereas at each encounter Dennison played directly into Cunningham's hands, and the latter was too much the banterer not to make the most of these episodes. What if he was worried? Hadn't she more cause to worry than any one else? For all that, she did not purpose to hide behind the barricaded door of her cabin.
Sometimes this ironical verbiage brings the blood to my face, and I am tempted to seize this cynical banterer by the throat and choke the life out of him. They would kill me afterwards. Still, what would that matter! Would it not be better to end in this way than to spend years and years amid these infernal and infamous surroundings?
He was too keen a banterer himself not to appreciate this gift in the poet. "What a lively lad you are!" he exclaimed. "But four affronts make a long account for a single night." "I am ready now and at all times to close the account." "Do you love Paris?" asked the vicomte, adding his mite to the bantering. "Not so much as I did." "Has not Rochelle become suddenly attractive?" "Rochelle?
He was a capital mimic, an incorrigible banterer, and in any other company than that of the woman he loved, and her family, the merriest and most jocular soul alive. Sometimes when alone with her, and with the "spooniness" which will attach to male courtship before twenty-five, fairly shaken off, he could be a gay, dashing and even a presuming lover.
Maurice got up and stretched himself. He rubbed his wrists, then sat down and waited for the comedy to proceed. "So you confess," said Madame, "that you sold the consols to the archbishop?" "I, confess?" Maurice screwed up his lips and began to whistle softly: "Voici le sabre de mon Pere." "You deny, then?" Madame was fast losing patience, a grave mistake when one is dealing with a banterer.
For the rest, he was a good banterer, drinking and laughing with his regular customers, hat in hand always before the persons furnished with plenary indulgences entitled Sit nomen Domini benedictum, running them into expense, and proving to them, if need were, by sound argument, that wines were dear, and that whatever they might think, nothing was given away in Touraine, everything had to be bought, and, at the same time, paid for.
"I give you no commission," replied D'Artagnan, with that calmness which never abandons the banterer; "I thought it would be easy for you to announce to his majesty that it was I who, being there by chance, did justice upon Menneville and restored order to things."
Spaulding were constantly together during the ensuing ten days, and so skilfully did I behave that the innocent pair regarded the flirtation which I was carrying on as a superb joke a case of a banterer caught in the toils, and Mrs. Spinney's manners suggested that she was agreeably flattered.
"O, Madame, and you will permit me to wear one of those gay uniforms of light blue and silver lace?" The Colonel looked thoughtfully at Maurice. He was too much a banterer himself to miss the undercurrent of raillery. He eyed Madame discreetly; he saw that she had accepted merely the surface tones. "And you will wear one, too, Jack?" said Maurice. "No, thank you.
It was even whispered, that, in the agonies of his fears, the worshipful Master Maulstatute mistook the kitchen-wench with a tinderbox, for a Jesuit with a pistol; but if any one dared to laugh at such an error, he would have done well to conceal his mirth, lest he fell under the heavy inculpation of being a banterer and stifler of the Plot a crime almost as deep as that of being himself a plotter.
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