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"It is difficult to rise above the jungle standards and reason by the light of civilized ways, is it not, my friend?" he queried banteringly. "Civilized ways, forsooth," scoffed Tarzan. "Jungle standards do not countenance wanton atrocities. There we kill for food and for self-preservation, or in the winning of mates and the protection of the young.
"What are his reasons?" she said to herself, yet audibly. Her husband looked at her, his head a little on one side, then he said banteringly: "My dear, you Americans are too analytical. You always look for a motive. Life is not of motive over here. Have you not learned that in all these years?
But like all oil towns, the fever is to sink one's money in wells." Betty's eyes turned to the horizon where the steel towers reared against the sky. "Can we go to see the oil fields now?" she asked. "We're not a bit tired, are we, Bob?" Mr. Gordon surveyed his niece banteringly. "What is your idea of an oil field?" he teased. "A bit of pasture neatly fenced in, say two or three acres in area?
That was the one question that racked my brain, and to it I could give no answer. We had just made our patients comfortable, with the exception of one who was dying fast, when a shrill whistle sounded outside. "The surgeon!" I exclaimed, running to the entrance. "Yes, there he is with the guide and two soldiers." "Two bandits!" said Santiago banteringly. "Give the men their proper name."
And it was in consequence of his own gossipy letter that the steward was disagreeably surprised by the prince's sudden appearance. The head forester seemed somewhat sceptical about the prince's fancy for his "cool forest home," for he said banteringly: "Then I am greatly surprised that our Court remains so long at Ostend.
I could not tell whether he was speaking banteringly or really angrily, and, keeping my glass to my eye in the hope of seeing something to report, I mumbled out some excuse about meaning it for the best. "Best, indeed!" he said pettishly. "Nice objects we look.
Vauquer said half banteringly to him, "So those daughters of yours don't come to see you any more, eh?" meaning to imply her doubts as to his paternity; but Father Goriot shrank as if his hostess had touched him with a sword-point. "They come sometimes," he said in a tremulous voice. "Aha! you still see them sometimes?" cried the students. "Bravo, Father Goriot!"
Fordyce, replied Gladys. 'There is something troubling me a good deal just now. 'What is it? Nothing must be allowed to trouble Miss Graham of Bourhill. Her star should always be in the ascendant, said Mina banteringly. 'It is a mystery a lost girl, said Gladys rather gravely. 'Some one I knew in the old life, who has disappeared, and nobody knows where she has gone. 'How exciting!
But he could not deny himself the pleasure of speculating as to its contents. It was such a large, interesting-looking package. What might it not contain? It simply reeked of possibilities. Had any one banteringly told Maurice Oakley that he had such a deep vein of sentiment, he would have denied it with scorn and laughter.
It came but rarely, that peculiar air, but it was very noticeable when it did come, although the man himself seemed totally oblivious of it. Miss Lorne noticed it now, just as she had noticed it that day in the train when she had said banteringly: "I am not used to Court manners. Where, if you please, did you acquire yours?"
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