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He used to say, with a drollness which did not strike me until years afterwards, "Boys, I and Cap'n Towle is goin' to trot out 'the Greys' to-morroh." Though strictly honest in all business dealings, his tropical imagination, whenever he strayed into the fenceless fields of autobiography, left much to be desired in the way of accuracy.
In high spirits at first, with his natural drollness, stimulated to brilliancy, his sallies brought smiles from those at adjoining tables. Then he became in turn boastful, arrogant, argumentative, thick of speech, finally, and slow of comprehension, but obstinate always.
Having approved of this project, they pulled out each a substantial complement of stout oaten bread, which served, along with the whiskey, for breakfast. The two persons pitched on for decoying Mat were Dolan and Traynor, who accordingly set out, full of glee at the singularity and drollness of their undertaking.
"Dick picked a whole lot for Madge, and then they went walkin' and forgot 'em. Isn't Dick funny?" she went on. Mr. Fielding looked as if Dick's drollness did not appeal to him, but the Bishop laughed, and put his arm around her. "Will you give me a kiss, too, for 'Good-morning," he said; and then, "That's better than the flowers.
And it seemed to Florian unfair that all should prosper with him, and Tiburce lie there imprisoned in dirt which shut away the color and variousness of things and the drollness of things, wherein Tiburce d'Arnaye had taken such joy.
"Some day I will be forgetting my convent teaching," said she, "and then I will make you love me, and you will be mine altogether." "There will be something in that," said Bryde, and laughed a loud ringing laugh, as the drollness of the business came on him. And when he looked down, there was the lass all humbled, and tears standing in her eyes, and a pitiful little mouth on her.
Monsieur Voltaire, however, sat grave and thoughtful, his chin in his hand. I, too, was serious, and felt little inclination to laugh in spite of the drollness of the young girl's acting. I saw at the first glance she was of a grade entirely different from the cobbler's boy and the other children, and I was troubled at seeing her in that company.
This morning came several maids to my wife to be hired, and at last she pitched upon one Nell, whose mother, an old woman, came along with her, but would not be hired under half a year, which I am pleased at their drollness. This day dined by appointment with me, Dr. Thos.
His drollness, his dry contemplation of the specimen, and his absurdly gay and unpractical attire, formed a combination of elements suddenly grouped into an effect that touched her reflex nerves after the strain with the magic of humor. She could not help herself: she burst out laughing.
"Would it not be more prudent to fly back at once to the yacht if in truth this is the same police agent of whom you recounted to me with such drollness the exploits? It is not that I am afraid " "Nor I," said Audrey. "There is no danger except to Jane Foley." "Ah! You cannot abandon her. That is true. Nevertheless I regret ..." "Well, darling," Audrey exclaimed. "You would insist on my coming!"
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