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You like masquerading; go make a little girl of yourself, while I turn boy, and prepare for our merry making." No lad could have spoken with a blither face, for Moor had preserved much of the boy in spite of his thirty years. His cheerfulness was so infectious, that Sylvia already began to forget her gloom, and hurried away to do her part.
It is they who gibber and chatter thus at dawn, leaving me with no more self-assurance than a man on ticket-of-leave. But as the sun comes up, behold the spirits evaporate, the films pass away from my eyes, and I am lighter, blither, happier, stronger. Then in my heart birds begin to sing in chorus. I am myself once more.
All ended happily, and never had the wedding-bells in the old village church rung out a blither peal than they did at the subsequent union." Sam was thoughtful. "Bribed a tramp to attack her, did he?" "Yes, sir. She had never thought much of him till that moment, sir. Very cold and haughty she had been, his social status being considerably inferior to her own.
Donald, as they were speaking, entered, with rather a blither face than he might have been expected to wear, considering the impending fate of his master's purse and credit. "Gentlemens, her dinner is ready, and HER CANDLES ARE LIGHTED TOO," said Donald, with a strong guttural emphasis on the last clause of his speech. "What the devil can he mean?" said Musgrave, looking to his countryman.
It would be a funny joke on me if they did prove fatal to me, wouldn't it? well, but away with such nonsense. I mustn't blither to the very babe whose cradle I am rocking, must I?" "I'm not a babe, Uncle Jimmie. I feel very old sometimes. Older than any of you." "Oh! you are, you are. You're a regular sphinx sometimes.
If you don't, I do, and there's lots of others know, and don't you forget it, mon vieux." "That's no answer, Monsieur Grandois none at all. It tells nothing," remarked Carnac cheerily. "You got left out of his will, m'sieu', you talk as if he was all right that's blither." "My father had a conscience.
"Never was man of kinder heart and blither temper." "Then you think that he will not be sharp with us? 'More straight in your saddle! 'lance lower! 'head higher; that is what has been ringing in my ears from morning till night of late, sometimes enforced by a sharp blow on the shoulders. Is it not so with you?" "Oh, old Penrose took all that trouble off their hands long ago.
You can propound nothing but he has either a theory about it ready- made, or will have one instantly on the stocks, and proceed to lay its timbers and launch it in your presence. "Let me see," he will say. "Give me a moment. I SHOULD have some theory for that." A blither spectacle than the vigour with which he sets about the task, it were hard to fancy.
"She dyed her fair skin with walnut, wore russet gown and hood, and was a very nightingale for blitheness and sweet song through that first year," said Henry; "blither than ever when that little one was born in the sunshiny days of Whitsuntide. I tell thee, those were happier days than ever I passed as Lord de Montfort at Kenilworth.
That young fellow, who has not had the decency to put off his boots and buckskins, might have stood as forward as most of them in the graces of the old lady, who loved to look upon a comely young man; but it is thought he has forfeited the moment of fortune, by sometimes neglecting her tea-table when solemnly invited; sometimes appearing there, when he had been dining with blither company; twice treading upon her cat's tail, and once affronting her parrot.
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