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"I hate you!" she said. "I'll never forgive you!" "A joke's a joke," said Rufus, still in the tone of a mild instructor. "A joke!" Her wrath enwrapped her like a flame. "It was not a joke! It was a coarse and hateful trick!" "All right," said Rufus, as one giving up a hopeless task. "It's not all right!" flashed Columbine. "You're a bounder, an oaf, a brute!
The custom of receiving obedience and flattery and admiration has not made me a turkey-cock. Life is a joke; and when the joke's on me, I laugh as heartily as when it's on the other fellow. It is half-past three o'clock on a May afternoon; a dismal, dreary rain is being whirled through the streets by as nasty a wind as ever blew out of the east.
Those who were not out to greet her telephoned as soon as they heard she was back home again. And just as she had gone to help pack, Grandma Wentworth came to help unpack. There were three trunks besides those Nanny had taken, from Green Valley. Nanny laughed and chuckled as she explained. "The joke's on father. We met up with a nice American chap on our travels.
"Come, come," said the landlord, who felt that paying people for their absence was a principle dangerous to society; "a joke's a joke. We're all good friends here, I hope. We must give and take. You're both right and you're both wrong, as I say. I agree wi' Mr. Macey here, as there's two opinions; and if mine was asked, I should say they're both right.
There, now!" There was a roar of laughter. This was exactly the sort of "tit-for-tat" humor that appeals to a Yankee crowd. The motion was seconded half a dozen times. Moderator Knowles grinned and shook his head. "A joke's a joke," he said, "and we all like a good one. However, this meetin' is supposed to be for business, not fun, so " "Question! Question! It's been seconded!
As chief of the custom house you are fined five pounds and two more cases of gin." "Look here, Cornelius. A joke's a joke, but this one has gone far enough. This is not Levuka. I've half a mind to pull your nose for you. You can't buck me." The Feathers of the Sun retreated unsteadily and in alarm. "Lay no violence on me," he threatened. "You're right. This is not Levuka.
"If you hadn't stopped me I'd have stopped him by this time.... But it's too late now." "You don't suppose he was joking, do you?" Henrietta inquired. "Of course he was," said Spot and none too pleasantly. "Well," Henrietta mused, as she pecked at a cabbage-leaf, "I must say that I think the joke's on you."
But I was born to be a comedian, Sir: so I ran away, and listed with the players, Sir; and I topt my parts at Amersham and Gerrard's Cross, and played my own father to his face, in his own town of Pogis, in the part of Gripe, when I was not full seventeen years of age; and he did not know me again, but he knew me afterwards; and then he laughed, and I laughed, and, what is better, the dry-salter laughed, and gave me up my articles for the joke's sake: so that I came into court afterwards with clean hands, with clean hands; do you see, Sir?
I can hardly believe that. A joke's a joke. 'Upon my soul! said the whelp. 'I am serious; I am indeed! He smoked with great gravity and dignity for a little while, and then added, in a highly complacent tone, 'Oh! I have picked up a little since. I don't deny that. But I have done it myself; no thanks to the governor. 'And your intelligent sister?
The joke's on us, men; it is to laugh!" "I thought so!" Thad now remarked, showing what confidence he had felt in the decision that their best policy had been to obey orders, and come to the shore. Several moving figures were now seen, and coming down the rocks toward them. In another minute's time these had resolved themselves into three men.
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