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"They will open that door," said I, "when you could wish it shut, as is but too apparent already, and you will be glad to shut it when you cannot; the Parliament is not a body to be jested with." After the signing of the treaty, I was told that the envoys had given 2,000 pistoles to Madame de Montbazon and as much to M. d'Elbeuf.
She was joyous as if a burden had been lifted. Prescott rarely had seen her in such spirits. She, who was usually calm and grave, seemed to have forgotten the war. She laughed and jested and saw good humour in everything. Prescott could not avoid catching the infection from the woman whom he most admired. The atmosphere the very air took on an unusual brilliancy.
You know how I have jested with her about her soft melancholy, and lonely walks at morning before any one is up, and in the moonlight when all should be gone to bed, or set down to cards, which is the same thing. The incident which follows may not be beyond the bounds of a joke, but I had rather the jest upon it came from you than me.
And how willingly he carried baskets of wood in and started the parlor fire, and joked and jested with her regarding his ability as an assistant! It warmed her old heart in a wonderful way, for her husband and only son had long years ago been laid at rest in the village "God's acre," and it seemed so nice to her to be noticed at all.
As the girls grew warm and accustomed to the exercise they laughed, jested, screamed recklessly when they came into collision, and sailed before the wind down the whole length of the pond at perilous speed. The more animated they became, the gloomier looked Smilash.
From the school windows we could see the blue sky, the trees of the garden all covered with buds, and the wide-open windows of the houses, with their boxes and vases already growing green. The master did not laugh, because he never laughs; but he was in a good humor, so that that perpendicular wrinkle hardly ever appeared on his brow; and he explained a problem on the blackboard, and jested.
"And then when you added that it was to use her as a subject for a stone image," laughed Claire, "she was furious with you, and yet she was very sure that she didn't want you to care about her in any other way." "Then perhaps I am making a mistake," he jested. "Perhaps, my dearest, but I am so glad of it that I don't care if you are." He caught her in his arms.
"She has, and with what appeared to me an intimation that I loved her money, perhaps, better than herself." "Surely not, brother!" "To me it seemed so. Certainly she treated lightly my declaration, and almost jested with me." The sister stood silent for some moments, and then said "The woman who could thus jest with you, Thomas, is unworthy of you." "So I am trying to convince myself.
She had been seen walking one moonlight night with a young lad at Bangor: the lad was her nephew; but some one had perhaps jested about Miss Todd and her beau, and since that time she was always talking of eloping with her own flesh and blood. But Miss Todd was not a bad woman.
Perhaps not enough to settle at all. Ay, Sivert might easily promise him all that came to him from his uncle! The two brothers jested about it. Sivert was not upset over the matter, not at all; perhaps, indeed, it might have irked him something more if he really had thrown away five thousand Daler.
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