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Violet and her George occupied adjoining chairs at another and smaller table. Their attendance was occasionally manifested through the medium of giggles and guffaws. P. Sybarite envied them: he had it in his heart to envy anybody young enough to be able to see a joke at that dinner table. By custom, the landlady relinquished her seat some minutes in advance of any guest.
For me it was an hour of deep humiliation. It required all my self-control to go on talking to Babykins as if nothing had happened. The Duke came over and joined us. He drew a low chair and sat down so that I could not see the hilarious sofa-party. I have not the least idea what he said or what any of us said. The guffaws of laughter in Augustus's thick voice was all I was conscious of.
He danced and paraded before the conclave and had no difficulty in turning the session into a wild revel of extravagant guffaws and antics, and after that time the occasions were many when Barlow gave a comic turn to things serious.
Ha, ha, ha!" And once more the General's guffaws went ringing through the house. "If Colonel Koshkarev should turn out to be as mad as the last one it is a bad look-out," said Chichikov to himself on opening his eyes amid fields and open country everything else having disappeared save the vault of heaven and a couple of low-lying clouds.
As he finished this opening stanza of what posterity has ranked as one of the most exquisite lyrics in the English tongue, but which was received by the audience of cadets with guffaws of derision, the reader closed the book with a snap, and dashed it across the room and into the open fire. "Did you ever hear crazier rubbish?" he asked, with contempt.
Although I am supposed to be in the business, I never could tell the difference myself." There was a chorus of guffaws. Mr. Waddington mopped his forehead with a handkerchief. "It is absolutely true, gentlemen," he pleaded. "I have always posed as a judge but I know very little about it. As a matter of fact I have had scarcely any experience in real antique furniture. We must get on, gentlemen.
With windy guffaws they were telling stories. They were, in fact, males in a happy state of nature. Babbitt sighed, "I don't know how it strikes you hellions, but personally I like this busting loose for a change, and kicking over a couple of mountains and climbing up on the North Pole and waving the aurora borealis around." The man from Sparta, a grave, intense youngster, babbled, "Say!
'Ullo, Parson! Goin'?" The door slammed furiously, Arbroath had suddenly lost his dignity and temper together. Peke's raillery proved too much for him, and amid the loud guffaws of "Feathery" Joltram, Bill Bush and the rest, he beat a hasty retreat, and they heard his heavy footsteps go hurriedly across the passage of the "Trusty Man," and pass out into the road beyond.
After a while I began to long for a less subjective public, a more various audience. I would summon the servants, range them in chairs at one end of the room, conceal myself behind the theatre, and spout the play with fervid solemnity. And they would giggle, and make flippant commentaries, and at my most impassioned climaxes burst into guffaws.
Thus, early in the morning, on his way to breakfast, Ned had stumbled over an ax and severely cut his head. Every one but Ned saw the point of this joke immediately, and hearty guffaws testified to their appreciation. Miss Carmichael took her place behind the upturned tub. "Will you please be seated?" she said.
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