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Do help me grapple with an extraordinary situation." The Archdeacon smiled humorously. He was a spare man of seventy, with thin, pointed, clean-shaven face, and clear blue eyes like Miss Winwood's. "If there's a situation, my dear Ursula, with which you can't grapple," said he, "it must indeed be extraordinary." She narrated what had occurred, and together they bent over the unconscious youth.
It was a serious thing to talk lightly of so grand a person as the duke. Still, the magic word America, where the gold came from, flamed her curiosity. "You are from America?" "Yes." "Are you rich?" "In fancy, in dreams" humorously. "Oh! I thought they were all rich." "Only one or two of us." "Is it very large, this America?" "France, Spain, Prussia would be lonesome if set down in America.
"Why, Emma, Emma Dean!" she exclaimed, her voice rising high in astonishment. "Yes, it's Emma, Emma Dean," returned Emma humorously. "It is I, me, myself and all the other personally personal pronouns that stand for your old friend, Emily Elizabeth Dean."
But his eyes, with their merry twinkle, showed that he could also speak humorously. He was indeed a famous story-teller, fond of all sorts of riddles and jests, and remembering all of them he heard. He used often to point his arguments with an anecdote, always a fresh one.
In Grogan's, Christmas cheer was already rampant. Fuzzy entered with his doll. He fancied that as a mummer at the feast of Saturn he might earn a few drops from the wassail cup. He set Betsy on the bar and addressed her loudly and humorously, seasoning his speech with exaggerated compliments and endearments, as one entertaining his lady friend.
He had wondered humorously if he were fallen in love, but, although he retained little faith in the activities of the heart after youth, he was beginning seriously to consider the expedience of marrying Concha Arguello.
Smallweed looks, with greedy eyes, at the little bundle Mr. Bucket produces from a mysterious part of his coat, and identifies it as the same. "What have you got to say next?" asks Mr. Bucket. "Now, don't open your mouth too wide, because you don't look handsome when you do it." "I want five hundred pound." "No, you don't; you mean fifty," says Mr. Bucket humorously. It appears, however, that Mr.
Suddenly she asked: 'You have ridden as knight errant? He said: 'For three weeks only. Then the Scots came on too thick and fast to waste time. His dark eyes blinked and his broad lips moved humorously with his beard. 'I swore to do service to any lady; pray you let me serve you. 'You can do me a service, she said. He moved his hand to silence her. 'Pray you take it not amiss.
"They've come to the wrong house to get it," said Richard and he folded his arms very heroically. "You refuse to speak?" "I do." "Mr. Van Diest would pay you enormously." "Course he would." "Twenty per cent after exploitation and a million down." It was a staggering proposition, but Richard preserved his calm and remarked humorously: "I'll take it in copper, please."
You could write an original book of the nicest kind; mix up travel and fiction; get some love in." "Oh, that's the stalest kind of thing!" "Well, but you could see it from a perfectly new point of view. You could look at it as a sort of dispassionate witness, and treat it humorously of course it is ridiculous and do something entirely fresh." "It wouldn't work.
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