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But there he stopped, looking back through the darkness at the dim figures he had left. "Perhaps you will tell Miss Roscoe that you have appointed me deputy-governor," he said. "And tell her not to be frightened, sir. Say I'm not such a bogey as I look, and that she will be perfectly safe with me." His tone was half-serious, half-jocular. He wrenched open the door not waiting for a reply.
As Will Scarlett walked home to the small room which he occupied, not very far from his cousin Hester Wright, he was overtaken by a young sailor of about his own age, who linked his arm in his and spoke to him in a half-tipsy, half-jocular voice. "You was going to give me the slip, Will. And where be you off to at this hour of night?" "To bed, and to sleep," said Will, shortly.
They therefore breakfasted chiefly on biscuit, merely making an attempt, with wry faces, to swallow a little pork. Observing this, Sam said, in a half-jocular manner: "Now, my lads, it is quite clear to me that in taking command of this ship, my first duty is to point out the evils that will flow from unrestrained appetite for biscuit; also to insist on the cultivation of a love for raw pork.
"Well, then, my son," said the baronet, preserving his half-jocular air, "I must tell you that it is my wish to have you in town." "Then you have not been ill at all, sir!" cried Richard, as in his despair he seized the whole plot. "I have been as well as you could have desired me to be," said his father. "Why did they lie to me?" the young man wrathfully exclaimed.
Elysee returned, bringing me kind words from the Mother house, and a half-jocular hint that Superior General Philippe had me much in his mind. No doubt there had been a time when the idea of becoming a Director would have stirred my pulses. Surely it was gone now.
"Yes, if you'll pay enough," was the half-jocular reply. "Name your price." "Ten dollars." "Here is your money;" and he put a gold piece into the hand of the astounded passenger, which represented ten times the sum he had paid for the fruit at San Blas. "That's a pretty steep price," said Tom, "for six pineapples."
"Please don't," pleaded the wife, using her whole strength to stop him in his circuit with the almost insensible Miner. "Beg!" he said again, "beg, or I'll cave your backbone in." There was a terrible upward inflection in his voice now, a half-jocular tone that was more terrible than the muffled snarl in which he had previously been speaking. "I beg! I beg!" cried Miner.
I wish you would be reasonable and understand this and make her going away easier." This rambling speech was received at first in silence, then Ringfield spoke, his slow utterances affording a contrast to the half-jocular, half-querulous words of the ex-guide. "That word reasonable! Be reasonable! You you ask me to be reasonable! As if I were at fault, as if I were doing her the injury!
No you couldn't be offended!" It was half-jocular, half-anxious, wholly inexplicable. "At what," asked Hugh Finlay, "should I be offended?" Again, with a deep sigh, the Doctor dropped into his chair. "I see I must begin at the beginning," he said. But Finlay, with sudden intuition, had risen and stood before him trembling, with a hand against the mantelpiece.
The contention was pretty sharp for a time, but the obstinacy of the Englishman prevailed. The hunter gave in, and at once lay down straight out with his face to the cliff, and as close to it as he could squeeze. Lewis immediately lay down outside of him, and, throwing one arm over his Lecroix's broad chest gave him a half-jocular hug that a bear might have enjoyed, and told him to go to sleep.
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