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"No; I never even heard of her until she sent up her card." "Why, how funny," said Marian; "I've always heard of Locky Ann Daggett, but I never knew anything about her, except that she's very old and very queer." "She's a sort of humourous character," said Guy Morris; "strong-minded, you know, and eccentric, but not half bad. I quite like the old lady, though I almost never see her."
You must take my word for what I have told you." She looked up at him: "I do." Then: "It's a pity; Mr. Quarrier does not consider such things humourous. He he is very sensitive. Oh, I wish that fool Englishman had been in Ballyhoo!" "But he didn't do it!" "No, but he put you up to it or Grace Ferrall did. I wish Grace would let Mr.
Demosthenes, however, is thought by many to have but little merit of the kind; but to me nothing can be more genteel than he is; though, perhaps, he was rather smart than humourous. The one requires a quicker genius, but the other more art and address.
Mountstuart would speak of having seen the colonel near the station. There was a laugh, and Colonel De Craye laughed loudly as it flashed through him that a quick-witted impressionable girl like Miss Middleton must, before his arrival at the Hall, have speculated on such obdurate clay as Vernon Whitford was, with humourous despair at his uselessness to her.
And the central figure of all was Esmé Amarinth, who stood leaning upon an ebony stick with a silver knob, surveying his audience with the peculiar smile of humourous self-satisfaction that was so characteristic of his large-featured face. Just before he began his address Mrs. Windsor fluttered up to him, and whispered in his ear "Don't make any classical allusions, will you, Esmé? I promised Mr.
"You can judge," he said, laughing; and had her in his arms again, and kissed her consenting lips and palms, and looked down into the sweet eyes; and she smiled back at him, confident, at rest. "What has wrought this celestial change in you, Phil?" she whispered, listlessly humourous. "What change?" "The spiritual." "Is there one? I seem to kiss you just as ardently."
In a humourous tone, be said, all the weaned children must be sent to the Institution at once, and the infants be kept until they were old enough. Their Missionary, he added, seemed to think it would be a heavy burden on him, and so indeed it would be if he were alone: but he was not alone, God would help him, and so it would be light.
He set Janet into a flutter of happiness by relating to her a humourous account of some of his sister's attempts at housekeeping, an art in which Janet was well versed, and he soon had her laughing at the city girl's mistakes with quite a feeling of superiority. Wee Andra was more difficult, horses, foot-ball, farm work, music, he rose to none of these baits.
There was something so glad and different in his look that like any other dried-up old blunderer in my place I felt an instant tendency to laugh. It was that heathenish possession, the old insanity of the risibles, which makes a man think it a humourous thing that his friend should be discovered in love.
She prattled on at random, sometimes naive, sometimes wistful, sometimes faintly humourous a brave, clean spirit that was content to take the consequence of duty done a tender, gentle soul, undeformed amid the sordid horrors that hardened or crippled souls less innocent.
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