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"We must put him through his paces, friend Horace. He's a notorious blunderer with women; hasn't a word for them, never marked a conquest." De Craye crested his plumes under the agreeable banter. He presented a face humourously sceptical. "The lady is positively not indisposed to give the poor fellow a hearing?"
And that deadly but consecrated road, where yet may be seen the labours of Augustus, in the canal which had witnessed the Voyage so humourously described by Horace, echoed with the loud laughter and frequent snatches of wild song by which the barbarian robbers enlivened their rapid march. It was noon when the company entered upon that romantic pass I have before referred to the ancient Lantulae.
On occasion of his play being brought upon the stage, Johnson had a fancy that as a dramatick authour his dress should be more gay than what he ordinarily wore; he therefore appeared behind the scenes, and even in one of the side boxes, in a scarlet waistcoat, with rich gold lace, and a gold-laced hat. He humourously observed to Mr.
"Nothing against us, on a fair construction," said Fleda patiently. "It is well known to those who understand the subject" "Where did you learn so much about it, Fleda?" said Mrs. Evelyn humourously. "As the birds pick up their supplies, ma'am here and there. It is well known, Mr.
When Percival was by some chance absent from a sitting, the others calculated the precise sum he probably would have lost and humourously acquainted him with the amount by telegraph next morning, it was apt to be nine hundred and some odd dollars, requesting that he cover by check at his early convenience. Yet the diversion was not all gambling.
Then after a pause she sighed and said: "I fear that the girls of '61 will show an unusually large crop of old maids." She spoke half humourously of what became in reality a silent but great tragedy, especially in the case of the South. The war was prominent in the minds of the two women. Mrs. Prescott had truly said that knowledge of it in Richmond was vague.
However, by dint of squeezing and crushing, and amid not a little noise and merriment, they were at last all wedged in, "like figs in a box," as Minnie humourously remarked thinking she was saying quite a smart thing, out of which delusion she was at once awakened by one of the smallest and most ragged of the urchins present, who promptly suggested "herring" as a more appropriate simile.
"Nothing against us, on a fair construction," said Fleda, patiently. "It is well known, to those who understand the subject" "Where did you learn so much about it, Fleda?" said Mrs. Evelyn, humourously. "As the birds pick up their supplies, Ma'am here and there. It is well known, Mr.
The earnings of the most popular authors are, I fear me, sadly exaggerated, and their own anticipations seldom realised. As the other American novelist Mr. Howells humourously puts it: "I never get a cheque from my publisher without feeling distinctly poorer." The average author is indeed very much in the position of a cabman surveying a shilling.
From these considerations, from these over-balances, it was, that I said, in a former, that I would not be in love with this man for the world: and it was going further than prudence would warrant, when I was for compounding with you, by the words conditional liking, which you so humourously rally. Well but, methinks you say, what is all this to the purpose?
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