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The air was a living splendor, clear and warm, with now and then a breeze that rippled the leaves like the waves of the sea. He looked up from his book, and considered the question half-seriously, half-humorously. "I know how we used to prevent boys from stealing melons in the East," said he. "How?" "Put some tartar emetic in the biggest one.
So she came, and was present at all the rejoicings and all the talks that followed Fred's return. She took her part in the discussions about Fred's future. "Help me, my pet," said Madame d'Argy, "help me to find a wife for him: all we ask is that she should be like you." In answer to which Fred declared, half-laughing and half-seriously, that that was his ideal.
I'm sure he is the very image of what you were when I first saw you, Frank!" "Thanks, my dear, for the compliment," replied Dad, bowing to her half-jocularly, half-seriously, while he heaved a deep sigh. "I'm not making fun of Jack at all. I really was thinking how long ago it is since I donned the same uniform like him for the first time.
Now, I should never have thought it! The last person of the whole lot! Clever very clever! Richard, you'll get all the books that that man has written!" Viner lighted his pipe, thrust his hands in the pockets of his trousers and leaned back against the mantelpiece. "My dear aunt!" he said half-teasingly, half-seriously. "You're worse than a drug-taker.
Micklethwaite? asked Everard. 'I? Oh dear, no! I never got much past the Rule of Three. But Tom has forgiven me that long ago. 'I don't despair of getting you into plane trigonometry, Fanny. We will gossip about sines and co-sines before we die. It was said half-seriously, and Everard could not but burst into laughter.
The old folks love to tell of his beauty, his intelligence, and his life-long devotion to his master; and there is a tradition handed down and repeated half-seriously, half in jest, that when Gabriel blows his trumpet on the resurrection morning, and the dead in Hilltown grave-yard awake, Parson Lorrimer will lead his flock to the judgment riding on a white horse."
"Were Herod for the slaughter of the Innocents brought before a jury of this town, he would be acquitted," he said half-seriously. "Judas Iscariot would pass unscathed so long as any portion of his thirty pieces of silver remained with him." They laughed at this remarkable pronouncement, but with an undernote of seriousness.
"I was shocked when I discovered how much in awe of the colonel he stood. He was just terrified at the threat, and yet I know he would have given his life to protect me from harm. I think it was just I that spurred him on to make the plans he did." Stafford King agreed with a gesture. "Now what are we going to do about you?" he asked, half-humorously, half-seriously.
Why, it would be irresistible." "Well, I am afraid, or perhaps I ought rather to say I hope, that Miss Madeleine will not fully appreciate your novel way of paying her your addresses," said Worse, half-seriously.
Austin, who shared his room, insisted that he could not sleep because Thomas groaned and sighed so all night; Molly pertly asked him why he did not try rabbits, as kittens did not seem to appeal to Sylvia, and his mother bantered him half-seriously for thinking of "any one so far above him" whose heart, moreover, was buried "in the grave."
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