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Rob guffawed aloud with the callousness of a brother; but the other two lads gazed at her with an adoring admiration which was balm to her vain little heart.
The excellent joke was that, for the past six days, we had been supposed to be dead drowned; at least Dona Seraphina had been provided with that sort of death in her own name; I was drowned, too, but in the disguise of a piratical young English nobleman. "There's nothing too bad for them to believe of us," he commented, and guffawed in his joy at seeing me unscathed. "Dead! Drowned! Ha! Ha!
She just lay there with the hours until, puffing on some marijuana and dozing for a few minutes, she awakened to her higher authority accosting her like a mosquito. Gabriele tried to shoo her away with her hand. "You can't get rid of me that easily," laughed the Higher Authority. "Athena, sorry. I thought you were an insect." The Higher Authority guffawed. "It is Athena, the insect, is it?
He was disposed to tease her. "Hey, Bela!" he cried. "What kind of soup is this?" "No kind," she retorted. "Jus' soup." "The reason I asked, a fellow told me you made your soup out of muskrat-tails and goose-grass." "I put the goose-grass in for you," said Bela. Shouts of laughter here. Bela lowered her head and whispered in Joe's ear. Joe guffawed with an insolent stare across at Sam.
The joke was too good to keep to himself, and he passed it to Beefy next time he came near. Beefy saw the jest clearly and guffawed aloud, to the amazement of a clay-daubed infantryman who had had nothing in his mind but thoughts of death and loading and firing his rifle for hours past. 'Don't wonder Ben's agin conscription, said Beefy; 'they might conscription 'im, and passed on grinning.
There is something almost of religious ecstasy in the deportment of the spectators at a table where anyone is having a run of luck at roulette, and if she had guffawed in a cathedral she could not have caused a more pained consternation. The earnest worshippers gazed at her with shocked eyes, and Ginger, turning with a start, saw her and jumped up.
I might be a rich man, with a lot of houses and money. I might be a lord." The chaps guffawed. "Wot'yer laughing at?" asked Mitchell. "I don't see anything unreasonable about it; he might be a lord as far as looks go. I've seen two." "Yes," reflected Tom, ignoring Mitchell, "there's something in that; but then again, you see, you might be Jack the Ripper.
If I can't manage it my own way, I'll stay here till I can. Remember, I'm going to beat you if I can, and if I can't, why Mr. Sparling will settle with you. He will do it properly, too." The showman leaned back and guffawed loudly. "I never saw a kid like you yet. You beat anything that ever got into a freak tent.
Nevertheless a week or two later she noticed that he seemed to be a bit distraught, and she feared he was getting weary of his task. "What's the matter?" she finally asked him. "Oh, nothing," and the Breton grinned rather sheepishly. "Tell me, Breton, what's on your mind?" He "guffawed" loudly as he replied. "You'd make fun of me sure, if I told you and with good reason!"
"Mi General," Nostromo's voice rang out loud, but quiet, from behind a group of officers, "I should like to save that little boat. Por Dios, I know her. She belongs to my Company." "And, por Dios," guffawed Barrios, in a noisy, good-humoured voice, "you belong to me. I am going to make you a captain of cavalry directly we get within sight of a horse again."
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