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"It it's all right, Milly," said Mr. Simpson, with a smile that revealed a dazzling set of teeth. "Who are you?" demanded Mrs. Simpson. "How dare you call me by my Christian name. It's a good job for you my husband is not here." "He wouldn't hurt me," said Mr. Simpson, with an attempt at facetiousness. "He's the best friend I ever had. Why, we slept in the same cradle."
'You had better be careful how you indulge in such jokes again, said Nicholas, 'or you may find an allusion to pulling noses rather a dangerous reminder for the subject of your facetiousness. Was it written in joke, too, pray? 'No, no, that's the best of it, returned the actor; 'right down earnest honour bright.
To attempt to improve the humour of "Don Quixote" by an infusion of cockney flippancy and facetiousness, as Motteux's operators did, is not merely an impertinence like larding a sirloin of prize beef, but an absolute falsification of the spirit of the book, and it is a proof of the uncritical way in which "Don Quixote" is generally read that this worse than worthless translation worthless as failing to represent, worse than worthless as misrepresenting should have been favoured as it has been.
Our kettle proved second only to my rifle in importance, and if the fare lacked the savor of salt our appetites made up for the deficit. When we reached the Tug we were in the region celebrated for Colonel Andrew Lewis' "Sandy Creek Voyage of Fifty-six," as it was styled with grim facetiousness. It was one instance when Colonel Lewis failed of carrying out an enterprise against the Indians.
Then came the calculating of minutes, and facetiousness as to other people's watches and directions as to what one might expect to see. "It'll look like a bite out of a cookie, when it begins," the bond salesman said; and Miss Ladd tittered, and said what the ladies wanted to see was the man in the moon!
"The assassin has certainly escaped." "No doubt," said Fay. "Unless he is hiding behind the screen all the time," said Lord John, with his customary facetiousness. "It is about the only place in the room he could hide in, except of course the wastepaper basket."
The agony, however, passed, and he escaped discovery, and heard one of the fellows say: He is not in here, that is certain." "You're mistaken, Charley," muttered the detective to himself, in a spirit of reckless facetiousness, Ike Denman appeared to be completely disheartened, and he said: "I tell you, my good fellows, we're in trouble; that man has got away." "What will you do?"
It is owing to this that he preserved his judgment free and unembarrassed in the most trying situations, and enjoyed an uncommon presence of mind and facetiousness of temper in the most imminent dangers of war. I shall not attempt to draw his portrait: his person has been described by Bussi and St. Evremond, authors more entertaining than faithful.
Do you wish to have the room cleared before you speak of that shall we turn the key on all these folks, and then settle accounts he! he! he!" The deacon's facetiousness sounded strangely out of place to Roswell; still, he did not exactly know how to gainsay his wishes.
Their humour was a low facetiousness. Human beings filled him with disgust. But presently the influence of the place descended upon him. He felt quieter. He began to look absently at the tombstones with which the room was lined.
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