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He was struck by Horace's glumness, and in his frank way openly chaffed the boy about it. "What's up with this young scoundrel?" he said to Mrs. Errington. Horace grew very red. "Horace is not very well to-day," said his mother. "Mater, that's not true I'm all right." "I think it more charitable to suppose you seedy," she replied. "Charitable!" Horace cried.
I made no reply to their flippant remarks, for just then I felt very solemn and thoughtful. I hope I was not priggish. No, I am sure I was not; every word I uttered was too sincere, though they chaffed me afterwards, and I have thought since that they felt more seriously than they spoke. "You chaps didn't go on board that barque," I said quietly; "I did."
"What was your last remark?" inquired Wallis, taking his pipe from his mouth to grin. Even a superior officer might be chaffed a little in the darkness. "I made no last remark," asserted the Colonel with dignity. "I'm not a-dying yet. If I said anything last it was a mere exclamation of disgust the disgust of an officer and gentleman. I suppose you know something about our would-be Brigadier.
Sherwood's nerves that her fancied illness threatened to develop into something not quite so imaginative, and she required almost as much care as her husband. It became necessary for Gussie to spend a part of her time in her mother's room, and this she disliked very much, for Mrs. Sherwood was not a patient sufferer, and Gussie chaffed and fretted against the restraint to her liberty.
The newsboy even adopted the well-worn device of asking those whom he solicited to buy to help him get rid of his stock. One man offered him a cent, when the price was two cents. The newsboy chaffed the would-be purchaser. He sarcastically asked him if he "didn't want the earth." The others did what they had been told to do in the same earnest, characteristic way.
"You have a heart line," said the palmist to one of them "a heart line like a windmill!" I drank my coffee and listened. I could understand only a part of it, but it was eminently cheerful. They laughed, chaffed each other, and although my presence in the hotel must have caused much curiosity in that land of no women, they did not stare at me. Indeed, it was I who did the gazing.
"I wouldn't have the Scotland Yarders know it for the world," he cried, dropping into his chair; "I have chaffed them so much that they would never have let me hear the end of it. I can afford to laugh, because I know that I will be even with them in the long run." "What is it then?" I asked. "Oh, I don't mind telling a story against myself.
"May I come in, Stephen?" he asked. "I heard you were all here, Serge saw you. I have just arrived from Tsarsköi, and must eat." And of course he was warmly welcomed and pressed to take a seat, while Valonne chaffed him in an undertone about the joys he had precipitately left. Tamara's face was the picture of disdain. But the Prince sat beside her godmother, apparently unconcerned.
It rather added to his unpopularity that he was a man whom women usually took with preposterous seriousness all but Kitty Vesey, who charmed and held him by her outrageous liberties. When Mrs. Vesey chaffed him, he felt picturesque. He was also aware of inspiring entertainment for the lookers-on, with the feeling at such times that he, too, was an amused spectator.
'I see it can't be really bad, said Ethel, 'so I will rest on your assurance, and ask no indiscreet questions. 'You didn't see, then? said Aubrey, aggrieved at the failure of his imitation. 'You don't remember the beauty he met at Coombe? 'Beauty! None but Mab. 'Well, they found it out and chaffed him.
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