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Lord Battersea chaffed me in his noisy, flamboyant manner, trying to separate us; but with tact and determination this frontal attack was resisted and my new friend and I retired to the darkest part of the Terrace, where, leaning over the parapet, we gazed into the river and talked far into the night. Our host and his party thinking that I had gone home and that Mr.
The place was occasionally raided by the police, but thanks to his respectable appearance, he generally managed to escape. "At half-past four he returned home, and woke up the family for evening prayers. At five he went to bed and slept like a top. "The City chaffed him, and Bayswater shook its head over him, but that he did not mind.
He chatted merrily to her, chaffed her, teased her, to charm her from her unnatural solemnity. And she would smile, in her quiet, motherly fashion, as one smiles at a much-loved child who seeks to drive away our cares and would then offer to do something for him. "Shall I wash out your blouse or do up your shirt?" she would ask. Her gratitude always found its expression in some kind of work.
It was five o'clock next morning before I returned to the Grand, but during the hours we smoked together, at various obscure cafés, the trio told me nothing further, though they chaffed me regarding the beauty of the girl who had consented to act the part of my wife, and who, I could only suppose, "stood in" with us.
There was the clack of passing feet in the street under our windows, but we looked out upon a yawning void where the busy cabs had clustered, and the cabmen had socially chaffed and quarrelled, and entreated the stranger in the cabman's superstition that a stranger never knows when he wants a cab. Now he could have walked all over Rome without being once invited to drive.
A bad omen! But I was to suffer far worse things in the terrible campaign which we were about to undertake. This incident upset me a good deal, but I said nothing about it for fear of being chaffed about the way the new soldier was looking after his kit. My father stopped at Mâcon, at the house of an old friend. We spent twenty-four hours there and then continued our journey to Lyons.
She sat there for a quarter of an hour saying her prayers and stilling the pain in her heart and then she got up and deliberately went back to the dining-room, where the family were all assembled now. They chaffed about everything, and were boisterous and jovial as usual, and when she asked if she might go and see her old master, should Mrs.
Dermot chaffed all and sundry; Viola bustled about; Harold sat on the dresser, with his blue eyes gleaming in the firelight with silent amusement and perfect satisfaction, the cat sitting on his shoulder; and nurse, who was firmly persuaded that he had rescued her dear Master Dermot from the fangs of the lion, was delighted to do her best for his entertainment.
She made jokes with various people. She chaffed the young men pleasantly and wittily, as she supposed, and as the rest also supposed, apparently, judging by the applause and laughter which she got by her efforts. Manifestly she was a favorite with most of the young fellows and sweetheart of the rest of them.
Besides, I was not skilled in the speech of eyes. I was only Humphrey Van Weyden, a bookish fellow who loved. And to love, and to wait and win love, that surely was glorious enough for me. And thus I thought, even as we chaffed each other's appearance, until we arrived ashore and there were other things to think about.
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