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Then the manager returned. "We will agree, Mr. Carrados, on the understanding that these things are to be in our hands within two days. Failing that " "No, no!" cried Mr. Carlyle indignantly, but Carrados good-humouredly put him aside. "I will accept the condition in the same sporting spirit that inspires it. Within forty-eight hours or no pay.
Their good looks had been their capital, and they had good-humouredly made the most of the career that this resource marked out for them. It was in their faces, the blankness, the deep intellectual repose of the twenty years of country-house visiting which had given them pleasant intonations. I could see the sunny drawing-rooms, sprinkled with periodicals she didn't read, in which Mrs.
At dinner, and during the whole evening till we retired severally to our own rooms, he was the principal talker, recounting incidents of travel, always very loosely strung together, jesting, good-humouredly enough, at Strahan's sudden hobby for building, then putting questions to me about mutual acquaintances, but never waiting for an answer; and every now and then, as if at random, startling us with some brilliant aphorism, or some suggestion drawn from abstract science or unfamiliar erudition.
Upon the colonel asking to hear a recitation, the teacher made some excuse and shrewdly requested him to make a few remarks. They could recite, he said, at any time, but an opportunity to hear Colonel French was a privilege not to be neglected. The colonel, consenting good-humouredly, was introduced to the school in very flowery language.
When he returned to dinner he met Miss Chris with triumphant eyes. "By the way, Chris, you were mistaken this morning about that Burr boy. He's quite a decent person. I don't see how you got it into your head there was something wrong about him." "I'm glad to hear it," responded Miss Chris good-humouredly.
Mrs Clowes lifted her mighty form from the stool, shook peelings from the secret places of her endless apron, and calmly sat down again. "Ye rule 'em with a rod of iron, missis," said Jock. She smiled good-humouredly and shrugged her vast shoulders no mean physical feat. "I keep 'em lively," she said. "There's twelve of 'em in my lot, without th' two babbies.
"What a pretty vein of satire you have, mon cher!" said the Vicomte, good-humouredly; "there is a sting of truth in your witticism. Indeed, I must send you some articles of mine in which I have said much the same thing, les beaux, esprits se rencontrent.
In the winter of 1712, Lady Mary, who was with child, suffered much from ill-health, and this was to some extent aggravated by intense boredom, although of that boredom she wrote good-humouredly enough.
'How can you so speak of that poor child? 'Because the more they try to force on me the story of her fate, the plainer it is to me that they do not believe it. I shall find her yet, and then, Phil, you shall have the first chance. Philip growled. 'Well, Phil, said his brother, good-humouredly, 'any way, till this Love comes that is to let us out, don't let Moor or fiend come between us.
Africans being prone to assign plausible reasons for their conduct, like white men in more enlightened lands, it is possible they may be good-humouredly giving their reason for insisting on being invariably paid in advance in the words of their favourite canoe-song, "Uachingere, Uachingere Kale," "You cheated me of old;" or, "Thou art slippery slippery truly."
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