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You'll hear better if your glass is full than if it's empty." "Are you a doctor for deaf folk?" asked the postilion, banteringly. "No; but I've lived a good deal among drunkards," replied Montbar, filling Antoine's glass again. "A man is not a drunkard because he likes wine," said Antoine. "I agree with you, my good fellow," replied Montbar.
"I don't know yet," said Biff. "I'll knock your block off first and think about it afterward!" Mr. Ripley hastily drew his overalls back on and slipped the straps over his shoulders with a snap. "You'll tell me when you're going to do it, won't you?" he asked banteringly, and, a full head taller than Mr. Bates, glared down at him a moment in contempt. Then he laughed.
Now he trotted from one man to the other as the group scattered somewhat; now he sat half turned back, his hand on his steed's hind quarters, flinging words and laughter to the outside man. "Thou'lt have to use scissors again on thy periwig, ecod!" one man cried, banteringly. "Damme, yes," the youngster rapped out, and he caught a rich lock of his hair and drew it forward to look at it, frowning.
He thought no more of it then, for his attention was taken up by the coming of the Princess with her ladies, the reception being at an end; while soon after Andrew Forbes joined him, and began questioning him again about Lady Gowan, and what she had said about his dead mother, ending by turning Frank's attention from the emotion he could hardly hide by saying banteringly: "You'll have to be very strict with me, Frank, or you'll have a great deal of trouble to make me a good boy."
I I" he hesitated, boyishly "I hate to go away thinkin' he's livin' next farm to you that's all." "Well, then, why don't you rent the River Farm yourself," said John McIntyre, banteringly, "instead of running off West like this? You and that little Ontario girl would run things just fine down there, and show Mary and me how to do it right."
Seeing the countless piles of mail-matter, I jestingly remarked to my friend that there seemed to be letters enough there to go around the whole human family. He replied in the same mood, whereupon I banteringly suggested the probability that among so many letters, surely there ought to be one for me. "Nothing more reasonable," he replied. "We Bostonians are always bountiful to strangers.
He had come prepared to ride and he had been forced to walk. The young man frowned. He seemed on the point of swearing, but appearing to think better of it, he replied banteringly, "Por ahi. Por ahi." "What in blazes does that mean?" "Oh, I was just talking the language of the country a language, by the way, toward which you seem most indifferently inclined.
He rebuked my brother for having agitated me unnecessarily by telling me at all of so idle a tale; and was pleased to write a few lines to me at Worth Maltravers, felicitating me on my shrewdness of perception, but speaking banteringly of the whole matter. On the evening of the 14th of November my brother and his friend were sitting talking in the former's room.
I suppose you have not forgotten that?" "I remember it," he said, "and now recall your features. How have you fared since I employed you? Have you found your business profitable?" "Far from it," answered Peg. "I am not yet able to retire on a competence." "One of your youthful appearance," said Somerville, banteringly, "ought not to think of retiring under ten years."
The Pequod had now swept so nigh to the stranger, that Stubb vowed he recognized his cutting spade-pole entangled in the lines that were knotted round the tail of one of these whales. "There's a pretty fellow, now," he banteringly laughed, standing in the ship's bows, "there's a jackal for ye!
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