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"That pit is neither so deep nor so wide as the old one," said the watchman, "and if the plague goes on at this rate, they will soon have to dig another that is, if any one should be left alive to undertake the job." And chuckling as if he had said a good thing, he impelled his barrow forward more quickly. A few seconds brought them near the horrible chasm.
He knew he could not have spent it all in yesterday's rout, and the conviction forced itself painfully upon his mind that he had been robbed. As the mendicant held forth his cap, he shook his head, and showed his empty hands, at which movement the old man raised his eyebrows inquisitively, and muttered a most disagreeable and chuckling "Hih! hih! hih! hih!"
"And the pills, too," he added, chuckling as he went into a cottage close by. "And the pills, too; you mustn't forget them." Nasty old fellow, as if I wished to be reminded of anything so disagreeable at such a moment!
Beckett had a party of Yorkshire squires, chiefly fox-hunters and lovers of an outdoor life, at Kirkstall Grange when he heard that Oscar Wilde was in the neighbouring town of Leeds. Immediately he asked him to lunch at the Grange, chuckling to himself beforehand at the sensational novelty of the experiment. Next day "Mr.
"Eldershawe and me have just been saying," broke forth one of them, chuckling, "how this bringeth back old times, though 'tis little like them. We three were of the birthnight party Eldershawe, Chris, and me. Thou dost not forget old friends, Clo, and would not, wert thou ten times a Duchess." "Nay, not I," answered her Grace. "Not I."
"Never mind. Go on with the fun. Get Chunky to tell you when it is time to laugh." About this time Stacy got up, still chuckling to himself, and started for a cup of water. "Time to laugh. Ha, ha! What! Ha, ha; ho, h " The fat boy paused abruptly. He was down on his knees about to dip up a cupful of water when chancing to raise his eyes he saw something that caused the word to die on his lips.
That accounts, then, for the mystery of his manner and the strange way he has got of going about chuckling when there is nothing funny being said or done at least nothing that I can see!" "He's an old goose," remarked her friend. "Branwen," said the princess in a remonstrative tone, "is that the way to speak of your own father?"
No, he hath not escaped the fires, the consuming, unpitying, remorseless fires and THEY are everlasting!" And so he wrought, and still wrought mumbling, chuckling a low rasping chuckle at times and at times breaking again into words "It was his father that did it all. I am but an archangel; but for him I should be pope!" The King stirred.
Good thing if some of the flirtatious women could have seen that. Help them to learn their own minds sooner." He laughed as he heaped the twigs on top of the wagon and started down the hill chuckling. Belshazzar followed, leading Betsy straight in the middle of the road by the hitching strap. A few yards ahead the man stopped suddenly with lifted hand. The dog and horse stood motionless.
Outraged, at length, by this disgusting exhibition, that had not even the excuse of an exciting cause, I was leaving the bar-room, when I heard some one remark to a young man who had just come in: "What! you here again, Ned? Ain't you afraid your old man will be after you, as usual?" "No," answered the person addressed, chuckling inwardly, "he's gone to a prayer-meeting."
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