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"There's many a pretty foot in a sabot," retorted Peter, with an air of philosophy. "You think that's clever, but it's simply silly. How does that fact affect this particular sabot?" "I've put my foot in it," groaned Peter, comically. "Besides, she might be a houri from heaven," said Lancelot; "but a houri in a patched print frock " He shuddered and struck a match.
She done tol' me ter say she wouldn't have back that extry syllabub on her name fer nothin'. I reckon if I'd tell Marse Jeff that he'd go up in the air for fair. But this nigger is done talkin' done talkin'." He rode on, his brown old face furrowed with trouble. His bowed legs stuck out comically and the long tails of his blue coat spread themselves out on Cupid's broad back.
Sometimes he would endeavor to contribute his share to the general amusement, as by growling comically, to provoke and mystify a dog; and by some bashful and half-apropos observations. In the afternoon there came a fresh bevy of students onward from Williamstown; but they made only a transient visit, though it was still raining.
Claire was almost comically unfit to be a ranchman's wife, and she too had been a trial on occasions. She was small and delicate, but vivacious, amiable, bright. Her blue eyes always had a childlike wonder in them, and she was fond of wearing her fluffy, golden hair in a girlish knot low on her neck, or even in a long, thick braid down her back, with a blue ribbon bow at the end.
A great day in the wilderness, a joy and a delight. They gave her flour-wash, and Isak himself saw to it there was no stint of flour, though he had carried it all the way himself, on his back. And there lay a pretty calf, a beauty, red-flanked like her mother, and comically bewildered at the miracle of coming into the world. In a couple of years she would be having calves of her own.
Some time after this he was comically alarmed by an inoffensive animal; as he was walking along a deer-track, he chanced to spy a very fine tortoise-shell box, as he imagined, though he could not conceive how it could be dropped there; and, thinking he might make good advantage of it among the Indians, claps it into his pocket; he had not gone far before he heard a hissing noise, which seemed to be very near; he immediately thought it to be some venomous snake, and endeavoured to avoid it by going out of the path he was in; but still the noise seemed to pursue him; at last looking down, he sees a little ugly black head peeping out of his pocket, which he found came out of what he had picked up for a box: he with much ado slips his fingers into his pocket, takes out his supposed box, and flings it to the ground, when the creature, opening the upper from the under shell, marched away; this was, as he afterwards found, no other than a land-tortoise.
Peggy laughed in conscience-stricken fashion. "I don't!" she cried comically, and her eyebrows went up in a peak. "I have a pretty considerable fluency of language, as an American cousin would say, and the worst of it is, I speak first and think afterwards!
Marlboro was a great general, and as sorry a scoundrel as ever led troops to battle. Truly," says he, musing, "the Lord often makes queer choice in his instruments for good." And he lowered himself into the easy chair and crossed his legs, regarding me very comically. "What's this I hear of your joining the burghers and barristers, and trouncing poor Mr.
"Why, you poor old dotard, there's no oil in these specimens. You can smell 'em yourself if you want to," he said. But there was something in his manner of the lady who doth protest too much. "No, I can't," Uncle Henry was swift to deny. "My smeller's no good." He sniffed comically as if that proved his point.
Sitting with her arms on the round table she looked Mr. Gammon steadily in the face, and said with decision: "Never you come here again after you've been to Dulwich!" "Why not?" "Never mind. I don't want to have to speak plainer. If ever I have to " Mrs. Clover made her great effect of the pregnant pause. The listener, who had sobered wonderfully, sat gazing at her, his blue eyes comically rueful.
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