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I calculated that by hustling I could reach Blankshire either at ten or ten-thirty. That would be early enough for my needs. And now to route out a costumer. All I needed was a grey mask. I had in my apartments a Capuchin's robe and cowl. I rose, lighting a cigarette. The girl looked up from her coffee. "Back to the dime-museum?" banteringly. "I have a few minutes to spare," said I.
It was Harry and Nellie. She glanced coldly at him, and when he raised his hat she cut him with a smile of scorn. She saw his jaw drop dejectedly as Richard Travis sang out banteringly: "Sweets to the sweet, and good-bye to the three-minute class."
How'd you like to live in a board shanty, Aileen," he asked, banteringly, "with nothing but fried rattlesnakes and prairie-dogs for breakfast? Do you think you could stand that?" "Yes," she replied, gaily, hugging his arm, for they had entered a closed carriage; "I could stand it if you could. I'd go anywhere with you, Frank.
I knew that the look in my eyes had told more, a thousand times, than all the extravagant compliments with which I had, half banteringly, deluged her at the inn. We might, by hard riding, have reached Maury on the night of that day, but mademoiselle's comfort was to be considered, and, moreover, I desired to throw De Berquin off our track before going to our hiding-place.
You're our junior; and here are we kept below, and my lord you parading about the deck, and seeing everything." "Why, you're in the reserve," I said banteringly, "and will have all the fighting to do." "Who wants all the fighting to do?" cried Smith. "I don't. I suppose if we do take a lot of pirate junks, you'll be promoted, and we shan't get a word." "Stuff!" I said. "How can I get promoted?"
There followed then but a few final protestations. Where would Karl think she was? What in the world would he think of her going away and leaving him like that? Who would look after him? What if he needed some help he didn't get? Suppose he grew so lonesome and depressed he just couldn't stand it? On all of which points he somewhat banteringly reassured her.
The dropsical woman, who had retained her cheerfulness in spite of her misfortunes, answered him banteringly in a high falsetto voice which appeared as if it were put on, and she laughed so heartily at her neighbor's jokes, that her large stomach looked as if it were going to rise up and get onto the table.
Mother and daughter can then go to school together." "It is very fortunate," Mrs. Levice observed pensively, sipping her necessary glass of port, "that C sent your hat this morning to wear with your new gown. Isn't it?" "Fortunate!" Ruth exclaimed, laughing banteringly; "it is destiny." So Mrs.
It had an effect of pleasing him, and he banteringly advanced another moral axiom: "There are worse misfortunes than being poor!" "That may be, Colonel," he sighed. "I'm not familiar with all the tortures. Anyway, I'll bury the issue, along with my nose, in the delectable juleps Timmie is bringing."
Still singing they went back by the head of the lane, but not one member of Dick & Co. allowed himself to glance down the lane at man or automobile. Then the song died out. "I say, fellows," called Dave Darrin, banteringly, "we'd better get back to the hall if we don't want to find other fellows going home with our girls." "I'll fight before I'll let that happen," proclaimed Dick Prescott.
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