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Then, with a strange intensity, he went on: "I shouldn't let anything that had happened in the past stand between me and the woman I wanted if I wanted her badly enough." Ann stiffened. "I think you're talking very funnily," she observed. "I don't understand you at all." "Don't you?" Once more that swift, searching glance of the brilliant blue eyes.
Nevertheless, he could be funnily vivacious when he wished, but nothing more, could tell a good story, spoiled, however, to some extent by his stuttering, which his falsehood had turned into a habit from the hesitation he always had in replying and in speaking.
'Uncle! said Bopoluchi, 'that crow croaks funnily. What does it say? 'Pooh! returned the robber, 'all the crows in this country croak like that. A little farther on they met a peacock, which, as soon as it caught sight of the pretty little maiden, began to scream 'Bopoluchi, 'tis a pity! You have lost your wits, my pretty! 'Tis no uncle that relieves you, But a robber who deceives you!
"Oh, dear!" she brought up suddenly, flushed and panting. "What is the matter, Rachel?" Miss Parrott let her hands rest on the yellow ivory keys and looked over her shoulder at her. "Oh, I can't dance," said Rachel, "when you play so funnily. It doesn't go like that; it goes so."
You laughed at these words, and others around us laughed as well; I heard them. Very likely I expressed myself funnily, and I may have looked funny, but, for all that, I believe I understand where honour lies, and what I said was but the literal truth.
The girl moved aside; and on tiptoe Phyllis passed in. She walked to where, between the lamp-glow and the fire-glow, she was lighted up. White satin her first low-cut dress the flush of her first supper party a gardenia at her breast, another in her fingers! Oh! what a pity he was asleep! How red he looked! How funnily old men breathed! And mysteriously, as a child might, she whispered: "Guardy!"
Then her Parisian toilets made poor Sophy's Largo dresses look funnily dowdy, and her sharp questions and affected ignorances of Sophy's meanings and answers were cleverly aided by Madame's cold silences, lifted brows, and hopeless acceptance of such an outside barbarian.
"You are more than kind," he murmured. "But I think. . . ." Mr. Baxter waved his hand. "I mean no offence," he said. "But that man Ramage is one of the men who are going to ruin this country. . . ." "Funnily enough, Mr. Baxter, he seems to be of the opinion that you are one of the men who have already done so." The millionaire, in no wise offended, roared with laughter.
He said he liked that boy; and he pleaded for him so winningly and funnily that the man who was hurt most laughed loudest. Standing up in the carriage, and holding me by the hand, he addressed them by their names: 'Sweetwinter, I thank you for your attention to my son; and you, Thribble; and you, my man; and you, Baker; Rippengale, and you; and you, Jupp'; as if he knew them personally.
"For, observe, Marlow," he said, making at me very round eyes which contrasted funnily with the austere touch of grey on his temples, "observe, my dear fellow, that everything depended on the men who cleared up the poop in the evening leaving that coil of rope on the deck, and on the topsail-tie carrying away in a most incomprehensible and surprising manner earlier in the day, and the end of the chain whipping round the coaming and shivering to bits the coloured glass-pane at the end of the skylight.
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