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From a drawer in his desk Johnson quietly drew copies of the morning papers, each one folded carefully to an article in which, under wide variations of embarrassing head-lines, the facts of Bobby's latest frittering of his father's good money were once more facetiously, even gleefully, set forth and embellished, with added humorous speculations as to how he would probably cremate his new fund.
Paley gained credit for independence at Cambridge, and spoke with contempt of the practice of 'rooting, the cant phrase for patronage hunting. The text which he facetiously suggested for a sermon when Pitt visited Cambridge, 'There is a young man here who has six loaves and two fishes, but what are they among so many? hit off the spirit in which a minister was regarded at the universities.
It was not facetiously that she had promised to kiss him. An almost tragic seriousness had possessed her. And it was that seriousness that thrilled him that, and the amazing frankness with which she had coupled the name Jeems with the promise of her lips. Once before she had called him Jeems. But it was M'sieu Jeems then, and there had been a bit of taunting laughter in her voice.
Next day there was an afternoon dance on board Captain Belliot's ship, H.M.S. Abomination facetiously so-called for no particular reason; and Evadne was there with Colonel Colquhoun. She was dressed in white, heavily trimmed with gold, and, being a bride, was an object of special attention and interest.
She had suffered so many humiliations for want of money, it made her feel safer to have some by her. She gave herself up to study at this time, and wrote a great deal. It was winter now, and she was often driven down from her secret chamber to the dining-room by the cold. When Dan came in and found her at work, he would sniff contemptuously or facetiously, according to his mood at the moment.
The effect of all this was not lost upon the general public, and it was not long before men of Stillman's acquaintance used to remark facetiously to him over the lunch-table: "What's new in beans to-day?... Are reds still a favorite?" Stillman would throw back an equally cryptic answer, thinking as he did so: "What a wigging I must be getting over the teacups!
"I don't see how I can refuse that," said Miss Stevens with a smile and another glance down at the driveway, "although it's really a little early in the day to begin drinking," and she waited for them to dismount, going back with them into the little ice-cream parlor and "soft drink" and confectionery dispensary which had been facetiously dubbed "the bar."
"That's an old sign," said Bill. "But I walked all the way up here!" "You'll find it easier walkin' back." "But it's night!" "Scared of the dark, kid?" inquired Bill, facetiously. "Oh, say!" replied Hal. "Give a fellow a chance! Ain't there some way I can pay for my keep or at least for a bunk to-night?" "There's nothin' for you," said Bill, and turned and went into the cabin.
Surely that sin has been atoned for; I have suffered for it as no tongue can tell. The world needeth a new Dante, to write a new Inferno, with the bagpipes thrown in. Then will that sombre picture of future suffering be complete. I make no reckless charge against those aforesaid instruments of music, facetiously so called.
"I think I can provide you with a lodging for the night," he added, facetiously. "Slip past me, jump out of the window and run!" whispered the Cossack in the Count's ear, in Russian. "What are you saying in your infernal language?" asked the official. "My friend advised me to run away," said the Count, coolly sitting down, as though he were master of the situation.
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