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Gertrude would have preferred a plainer and simpler abode, more like that of her neighbours; but she had not had the heart to undo all her mother's dainty handiwork, and Reuben had thought nothing too good for his bride. Lady Scrope gibed and jeered a little, but not unkindly.
Then once again the long blades whirled and flew and rang together, and once again the stranger laughed and gibed and struck my Beltane how and where he would, nor gave him stay or respite till Beltane's mighty arm grew aweary and his shoulder ached and burned; then, when he recked not of it, the stranger, with the same cunning stroke, beat the sword from Beltane's hand, and laughed aloud and wagged his head, saying: "Art faint, boy, and scant o' breath already?
So rumour had it; and to unsophisticated Paul rumour was gospel truth. With all these unexperienced joys before him, what cared he for the blankety little blanks who gibed at him? If you imagine that little Paul Kegworthy formulated his thoughts as would the angel choir-boy in the pictures, you are mistaken. The baby language of Bludston would petrify the foc'sle of a tramp, steamer.
"We have waited long enough," gibed George Girty, swearing horridly. "Now you'll get what you deserve. You'll eat fire." They took him to a smaller town of Wakatomica, five miles distant. There they and the other people beat him for an hour. It was the beginning. They hustled him on to a third town, named Mequa-chake Red Earth. John Slover lost all hope. He was Indian enough to know.
And there were a score or two of other bizarre titles they had made for things or for localities, with the instinct of so embalming a perfect recollection. And each had certain tricks of speech, of course, as have all human beings, and these two, so living in each other, caught all these, and mocked and gibed and imitated, until there was little difference in their pronunciations.
You'll keep out of it," said Blake, with a forcefulness that the other could not withstand. "Don't worry. You'll have your turn later on." "Deuce take it!" cried the Englishman." You can't fancy I'm dwelling on that! You can't think me such a cad as to be waiting for an opportunity derived from an injustice to you!" "Injustice, bah!" gibed Blake. "I'll get what's coming to me.
Both were preoccupied by the same desire, to win the other to his own way of thinking, but it was the more cautious elder who spoke first. He would appeal to the very affection Villon had gibed at. "Stephen, dear lad, with all my heart I grieve for you. Would to God it were anything but this.
They marched joyously for several leagues, singing and joking, and telling of a thousand feats of love and chase and war. While thus engaged, some one remarked to Otto, that he was not dressed in the regular uniform, having no feathers in his hat. "I dare say I will find a feather," said the lad, smiling. Then another gibed because his bow was new.
"And, however you console yourself, it will not be with my cousin Lady Emberdale." Coningsby turned back to the table to fill his glass again. He spilt the spirit over the cloth as he did it. "Man alive," he gibed, "do you think she will believe you if I don't?" It was the weak point of his position, and Carey realised it.
"'Gee whiz, I'm glad I'm free, No wedding bells for me." sang Frank. "Oh, come off!" retorted Tom. "You're simply jealous." "A perfectly good day gone to waste," grumbled the usually cheerful Billy. "Cheer up, you hunks of misery," gibed Bart. "The worst is yet to come." "I'm not specially keen for the trip myself," said Frank.
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