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His smile was kindly, disarming, of a real sweetness that conquered me immediately, so that, foolishly perhaps, I would have trusted him if he had suggested a stroll in the jungle. He took my extended hand, but did not shake it. So new is handshaking and so foreign to their ideas of greeting, that they merely touch fingers, with the pressure a rich man gives a poor relation, or a king, a commoner.
Then amid the usual handshaking the word "Marche!" was given, and to the tune of cracking whips, whining dogs, and crunching snow, the northern packet glided out upon the lake with the Indian track-beater hurrying far ahead while the half-breed dog-driver loped behind the sled.
To which he replied, It was only the poor who thought so; and as he now saw we were in want, he would set apart one of his cows expressly for our use. On bidding adieu, the usual formalities of handshaking were gone through; and on entering camp, I found the good thoughtful king had sent us some more of his excellent beer.
After two hours' handshaking in a swallow-tail, a man knows what real trouble is!" She stirred around and around the cup, supping up spoonfuls gratefully. "I'm sure much obliged. It touches the right spot." He pressed her down to the chair, seating himself on the low edge of the dais. "Now you sit right there and rest your bones." "But my mother, Mr. Haas.
There, now, we'll shake 'ands over it, and be as good friends as ever. The handshaking was metaphorical merely. Thomas smiled, and was endeavouring to shape a sentence, when he heard voices out in the hall. 'There's Alma and her father back, said Mrs. Warbeck. 'I didn't think they'd come back so soon; they've been with some new friends of ours. Thomas jumped up.
We wondered if on the morrow there would be the handshaking and hymn-singing that had characterised the first Christmas of the war; a routine order had been published forbidding such demonstrations of good feeling, but it was hardly necessary flame projectors and asphyxiating gas had attended to that! Everything was very peaceful in the little hamlet when we arrived, however.
There was a great amount of handshaking to be done. In the meantime, Eph Somers was having something in the way of trouble back on the platform deck of the "Benson." Two small boats, manned by harbor boatmen, and each carrying a few passengers, had put off from shore, and now ranged alongside. "How do you do, Captain?" shouted a young man at the bow of one of the boats. "Louder!" begged Eph.
He stepped nearer, peering into Merry's face. Suddenly Frank recognized him. "Hello, Starbright!" he exclaimed, in delight. "Frank Merriwell!" shouted the big fellow, leaping forward and grasping Merry's hand. "Oh, eternal miracles! Am I dreaming?" Such a handshaking as it was!
A meeting between him and Mr. Gilman on her hearthrug might involve the most horrible complications. The young man and the young woman shook hands. But it was the handshaking of bruisers when they enter the ring, and before the blood starts to flow. "Won't you please sit down?" said Audrey.
"Oh David I was all to blame," she murmured brokenly. Further words were lost on her husband's lips. When the hubbub of handshaking and congratulating had subsided, Isabella Spencer stepped out before the company. She looked almost girlish and bridal herself, with her flushed cheeks and bright eyes. "Let's go back now and have supper, and be sensible," she said crisply.
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