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I ought to have taken that away when I bent it. Some passing horseman may have carried it with him in the body of his plunging steed. 'Oh, my lord! cried Dorothy, aghast. 'Pray, do not be alarmed, cousin: I but jested. Had anything happened, we should have heard of it. It was not in the least likely. You will not be long in this house before you learn that we do not speak by the card here.
Travers obeyed him without comment. He pulled out a long and wide scarf of white silk embroidered heavily on the edges and ends, and begged her to put it over her head and arrange the ends so as to muffle her face, leaving little more than her eyes exposed to view. "We are going amongst a lot of Mohammedans," he explained. "I see. You want me to look respectable," she jested. "I assure you, Mrs.
You discharge your poor dull apprentice the moment you find a clever one! 'And why not? I never was able to teach thee anything. 'Ah, Ned, there you are unkind indeed! said lady Margaret, with something in her voice that suggested the water-springs were swelling. 'My shamrock of four! said her husband in the tenderest tone, 'I but jested with thee.
Ford stared helplessly, and Adair laughed. "Shocked, aren't you?" he jested. "But you needn't be alarmed. I have persuaded my sister not to prosecute in the case of the snatched purse. Alicia, this is Mr. Stuart Ford, and he desires me to say that he is not often reduced to the necessity of robbing unprotected young women for the sake of scraping an acquaintance."
Whether he knew the individual in question or not, the threat was efficient; he trembled and hesitated, and finally drew the identical shagreen case from his bosom. "I but jested," he said. "Monsieur will witness that I relinquish it with reluctance." "I will witness that you receive stolen goods!" I cried, in wrath. He placed it in my hands.
A cowardly criminal with a capacity for intrigue would probably be a greater acquisition than that of the most gallant officer who ever covered a strategic 'withdrawal." Poor Flamby smiled and jested until the very moment of Don's departure and cried all day afterwards.
For some time Rosabella was unusually gay; she sang to her harp the most lively airs, and jested with Camilla for looking so serious and so uneasy; but when mid-day approached, her spirits began to forsake her. She quitted her instrument, and paced the chamber with unsteady steps.
One morning in March there came a party of peasants, fifteen or twenty in number, laden with sacks of chestnuts and walnuts, to the northernmost gate of the town. They offered them for sale, as usual, to the soldiers at the guard-house, and chaffered and jested as boors and soldiers are wont to do over their wares.
They were going to eat currants and rake hay and loll in the grass. Suddenly she turned to her husband across the table and said: "While I remember it, can you let me have a hundred?" "I wish you hadn't remembered it," said Tidemand good-naturedly. He winked, jested happily, and was delighted. "Don't marry, my friends; it is an expensive luxury! Another hundred!"
But he only jested with her, and asked her if she got food enough, and said that he was afraid he would, one day, find her starved to death. Towards Christmas time, when folks were making ready to go a-fishing, Madame was busy betimes and bustled about as usual, and got the great caldron taken down into the working-room for washing and wool-stamping.
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