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"Just camp cook," she replied good-humouredly. The sun was slanting low through the tall, straight trunks of the trees. Amy Thorne arose, gathered a handful of kindling, and began to rattle the stove. "I am contemplating a real pudding," she said over her shoulder. Bob arose reluctantly. "I must be getting on," said he. They said farewell. At the hitching rail Thorne joined him.
'I've come to get a lesson, that's all. For real instruction in the art, commend me to your cream-faced people who never do it. 'Nobody ever saw cream the colour of my face, said Wych Hazel good-humouredly. 'It is yours, Kitty, that always deserves the comparison.
'Oh, but you must save the champagne! he said, and, bending his chair backward, he was about to recall the man, Lucy stopped him. 'Don't don't, please, Mr. Edwardes! she said, in an agony. He lifted his eyebrows good-humouredly, and desisted.
"You'll not turn them out, Massingbird?" cried Jan, in his straightforward way, drawing the gentleman into the fruit-garden to a private conference. "I wouldn't." John Massingbird laughed good-humouredly.
“It’s no good arguing with an old vinedresser, who had formed his theory before I was born,” said Agellius good-humouredly; and he passed on into a garden beyond. Here were other indications of the happy month through which the year was now travelling.
He was given to calling a spade a spade whenever he had occasion to mention the article: and if she preferred to allude to it as "an agricultural implement for the trituration of the soil," he was disposed to laugh good-humouredly at the epithet, though he dearly loved the silver voice which used it.
One or two were pitched out of their cots, and a murmuring of fear that this should be a tempest, and that we were going to be wrecked, caused a message to be sent to Captain MacNab to know whereabouts we were, for no one liked to be first to acknowledge fear or expose our ignorance to the Captain, who had good-humouredly rallied some on what they would do and say in case of bad weather.
Then his face brightened. "But I don't think he'll be sore after I tell him how busy we've been." The Duke put his hand over his mouth. "I don't think he'll mind half an hour's wait, do you?" "He likes me to be very prompt." Count Halfont interposed, good-humouredly. "There is nothing more to come before us to-day, your Grace, so I fancy we may as well close the meeting.
"Oh," cried the Indian lad angrily, "I wish you hadn't stopped me. I was just ready." "Why, what did you want to do, Singhy?" cried the other. "Fight," said the boy, with his eyes flashing and his dark brows drawn down close together. "Oh, you shouldn't fight directly after breakfast," said Glyn Severn, laughing good-humouredly. "Why not?" cried the other fiercely.
However, as I cast my mind back over the events of the morning, and as I reconsider the fatuous conduct of my companions, I find it easy to believe that some poison of an exciting kind was responsible for their symptoms." Challenger slapped his colleague good-humouredly upon the shoulder. "We progress," said he. "Decidedly we progress."
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