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As he advanced in evening dress a voice called out "How are your coat tails?" a greeting which was repeated from all parts of the house. During a momentary lull he exclaimed with the peculiar squinting of the eyes and the half-laugh his friends so well remember: "Your greeting reminds me of Dave Larkins's reply when criticised for wearing a wamus* in July.
Lee's side, she asked about his new acquaintance, and he replied with a half-laugh, as though he were not proud of her, that she was a client, a pretty widow, well known in Washington. "Any one at the Capitol would tell you all about her. She was the wife of a noted lobbyist, who died about two years ago.
And taking hold of his sleeve, she sat herself upon a mound, and made room for him beside her on the grass. With a half-laugh and a sigh he obeyed her, and there, on the cliff, in the glow of the September sun, he took his seat at her side.
Something of the cobbler's stall followed this; till waxing furious, Tom sung out to Jonathan, hovering around them in watchful timidity, 'More Port! and the words immediately fell oily on the wrath of the brothers; both commenced wiping their heads with their handkerchiefs the faces of both emerged and met, with a half-laugh: and, severally determined to keep to what they had spoken, there was a tacit accord between them to drop the subject.
Do you know that was one of the most hairbreadth escapes of my life? If Fletcher Hill had caught me, he wouldn't have shown much mercy any more than he would now," he added, with a half-laugh. "He's a terrific man for justice." "Surely you're safe now!" Dot said, quickly. "If you don't give me away," said Warden. "I!" She started, almost winced.
"Poverty is the desire of ascetics, and this is not an ascetic age," he said at length, with a half-laugh at himself for his stiff speech. "You may say it is not an ascetic age; but yet I suppose the Ritualists . Perhaps you are a Ritualist yourself, Mr. May? I know as little personally about the church here, as you do about Salem Chapel.
The stranger, still at the point where Hite had quitted him, waved his hand and smiled. The jungle closed about the mountaineer, once more pushing on, and still the smiling eyes dwelt on the spot where he had disappeared. "Farewell, my transparent friend," the stranger said, with a half-laugh. "I hope the day is not unlucky enough to put a deputy marshal on your track."
They thought it was the world." There was a humorous sense of illumination in his half-laugh. "It was their New York, by jings," he put in. "Their little old New York that they'd never been outside of! And then first one lot slams in, and then another, and another, and tries to take it from them. Julius Caesar was the first Mr. Buttinski; and they fought like hell.
'D'ye feel ye can meet your fate like a man, neighbour Darton? asked Johns, breaking a silence which had lasted while five-and-twenty hedgerow trees had glided by. Mr. Darton with a half-laugh murmured, 'Ay call it my fate! Hanging and wiving go by destiny. And then they were silent again.
And for the fraction of a second he was half-minded to tell all he knew to Fullaway there and then and it was only by a still stronger effort of will that he restrained his tongue, determined to keep a stricter silence than ever, and replied to the American in an offhand, casual tone. "News?" he said, with a half-laugh. "Nay, not that I know of. They take their time, those detective chaps.
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