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But Arnold appeared to take it simply and to see no gibe in it, only a pleasant commonplace. "It might look queer in Chowringhee," he said, "but this is not a censorious public." Then, as if to palliate the word, he added, "They will think me no more mad to carry paper bags than to carry myself, when it is plain that I might ride and they see me doing that every day."
"You are far too hard," he wrote in answer, "on the very harmless drolleries of the young men. Indeed, there used to be a regularly appointed jester, 'Filius Terrae' he was called, whose business it was to gibe and jeer at the honoured ones by way of reminder that all human glories are merely gilded baubles and must not be fancied metal."
In his own unpleasant way Fred Gregory had made a case for his sister that tied their hands, and the crux of the matter had lain in his final gibe: "As a man sows, Clark, so shall he reap." The moral issue was there. "I suppose the Hines story goes by the board, eh?" he commented after a pause. "Yes. Except that I wish I'd known about him when I could have done something.
"Don't you think it funny, Mr. Farmer, that you should go so easily into a town that armies of a hundred thousand men have been trying for more than two years to enter and have failed?" "Maybe I showed better judgment," Prescott replied, unable to restrain a gibe. The Lieutenant laughed. "Perhaps you are right," he said; "but we'll have Grant soon. Now, Mr.
The girl, in particular, they treated in a foul manner; and the insulting gibe of "daughter of a galley-slave" constantly rose to their lips like an incontestable reason for condemning the poor, dear innocent creature to eternal disgrace. However, wheelwright Vian, an honest, worthy fellow, at last silenced his men.
"She'll not take anything from my house. It's her husband's business to find her in clothes." "They'll be better ones than ever you found me," was Patty's response. No heroics for her; no fainting fits at being disowned; no hysterics at being turned out of house and home; no prayers for mercy, but a quick retort for every gibe from her father; and her defiant attitude enraged the Deacon the more.
"Don't be too discouraged, you know have you ever thought of trying Addie Wicks?" All Wingfield would have understood the gibe: Addie Wicks was the dullest girl in town. And a year later he had married Addie Wicks... He looked up from the perusal of Ronald's telegram with this memory in his mind. Now at last his dream was coming true!
The judge afterwards owned that he had weakly indulged his dislike of the fellow, in letting him take Boyne, and not insisting on going himself with Tramiel, but this was when it was long too late. Ellen had her misgivings, but, except for that gibe about the decorations, Trannel had been behaving so well that she hoped she might trust Boyne with him.
At length, awed and not a little shamefaced, "I beg your pardon," he stammered wretchedly. "For what?" she demanded quickly, head up and eyes light. "For insisting. It wasn't ah courteous. I'm sorry." It was her turn now to wonder; delicacy of perception such as this is not ordinarily looked for in the person of a burglar. With a laugh and a gibe she tried to pass off her astonishment.
So-and-so has three daughters two alive, and one in Philadelphia." Six different people have related this gibe to me; it is only less admired than the same gentleman's observation as he alighted from an electric car at the further end of the Suspension Bridge, when he heaved a deep sigh, and remarked, "In the midst of life we are in Brooklyn."
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