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"You'd best look out, when Penton's lazy little wife waits on you ... she is the one who generally demands to be waited on, and if " And now, for the moment, all of us were combined against the master of the house ... furtively and jocularly combined, like naughty children....
The upshot of the matter was that the gentleman gave me an invitation to call at the Spottswood. I went the next day. They were immensely amused and interested with any particulars about her. The father the names are immaterial, the young lady's was Elaine asked me jocularly at what sum I estimated my fifth in Mammy.
"I I didn't know you knew," he stammered weakly. "Of course everybody knows! It was all over the village before you returned. "Can't you see what that legend meant to us?" she went on. "It was a thing of beauty. And now you have spoilt it. It's like burning down the trees of the Fairy Glen. You you Goth!" "But suppose I am drowned before the year is out like Roberts?" he suggested jocularly.
Anythin' of that sort would be the gift of the bridegroom. See?" "Oh, quite," said Mrs. Ingleton. "I shall certainly do my best for you, Mr. Preston." "Good for you!" said Preston jocularly. "It's a deal then. And you play every trump you've got!" "You may depend upon me," said Mrs. Ingleton. "Why isn't Mr. Preston engaged to Sylvia?" demanded Mrs.
In speaking of these visitors, the President afterwards jocularly referred to them as "those crackerjacks from Missouri." A formal address was presented, the principal point being that, as the Missouri Unionists had furnished many thousand recruits to the Federal Army, they had a right to look to the Government for soldiers to assist in protecting their families and their property.
The baronet had laughed at his own allusion, showing he spoke half jocularly; but, as his question was put in too direct a manner to escape general attention, the confused girl was obliged to answer. "I dare say Mr.
But I beat the thing down; and again marking the sleeper, jocularly hinted to Queequeg that perhaps we had best sit up with the body; telling him to establish himself accordingly. He put his hand upon the sleeper's rear, as though feeling if it was soft enough; and then, without more ado, sat quietly down there. "Gracious! Queequeg, don't sit there," said I.
They jocularly offered Grainger the entire plant for twenty-five pounds and his horses. He made a laughing rejoinder and said he would take a look at the machine in the morning. He meant to have a long spell, he said, and Chinkie's Flat would suit him better than Townsville or Port Denison to pull up, as hotels there were expensive and he had not much money.
On the subject of roads, Telford continued to be the very highest authority, his friend Southey jocularly styling him the "Colossus of Roads." The Russian Government frequently consulted him with reference to the new roads with which that great empire was being opened up.
Eyes blue as the azure shells; hair flashing out golden gleams, like that of Pyrrha, when she braided hers so featly for the coming of some ambrosial boy. "I must marry you, Marance," said I, jocularly, to the damsel, as I jumped her out of the canoe, "I shall marry you when we get back." It is good to live in a marsh.
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