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Festing smiled. He had some sense of humor, and Charnock's manner seemed to indicate that he felt he was confronted with two misfortunes. "You must have known your creditors would pull you up unless you came to terms with them, but one would expect you to please yourself about getting married." "I'm not sure your joke's in good taste," Charnock answered sullenly.
"A joke's a joke, but when you said you would come I naturally expected you would keep your word." "Keep my word?" repeated the sergeant-major, almost choking with wrath. "I stayed there in that lonely cottage from twelve to three, as per agreement, waiting for you," said Mr. Farrer. "You were not there," shouted the sergeant-major. "How do you know?" inquired the other.
At the end of the story he smiled grimly: "So while you were out o' the county on a wil'-goose chase after an inercent man, Peruna, he goes loco on paten'-medicine, an' gits the guilty party. Joke's on you, Slim. I nomernate Peruna fer nex' sheriff." Exhausted with the effort and pain of talking, McKee dropped his head upon Hoover's broad breast in a faint.
"Why, do you mean to tell me that because your young cub of a son, by a heaven-sent stroke of good fortune, has landed a job that men twice his age would give their eyeteeth to get, I find you sitting at the telephone looking as if he had run off with Annie the cook, or had had a leg cut off!" "I suppose it is funny. Only, the joke's on me. That's why I can't see it. It means that I'm losing him."
"A joke's a joke, all right; but, after all, I hate to see old Pete working hisself into the grave that way, even if he ain't a regular human being. Suppose you loaf over there and put him wise that the Madam's been off the place since sunup. The laugh's on him enough already." Which showed that Uncle Abner had not really a bad heart. And I did even as he had said.
Miss North acted awfully queer this morning. One of the girls asked if anybody heard that scream in the night, and the funniest look came over Miss North's face. To tell the truth, I think the teachers know all about it and the joke's on us. I haven't been so scared in an age. It's pretty risky for a Senior to be up to such high jinks." "Will Miss North do anything about it, do you think?"
He had not had the slightest warning of Racey Dawson's approach. "Didn't hear me, did you?" Racey continued, conversationally. "I didn't want you to. That's why I kept my spurs off and sifted round from the back of the blacksmith shop. And you were expecting me to come scampering down the trail over Injun Ridge, weren't you? Joke's on you, Peaches, sort of." Still Peaches said nothing.
"Hark ye, my lad," said the captain; "a joke's a joke, but everybody can't swim as well as you. I can't afford to lose any of my men by your pranks, so don't try that again I don't like it."
"I detest all this Barkerian business about evolution and the gradual modification of things. I wish the world had been made in six days, and knocked to pieces again in six more. And I wish I had done it. The joke's good enough in a broad way, sun and moon and the image of God, and all that, but they keep it up so damnably long. Did you ever long for a miracle, Bowler?"
It has taken them just about ten seconds to register interest in the strange male person who must be Somebody or he would not be here in high boots and flannel shirt." Johnny flushed. "You saw the clothes I had on, and you brought me here," he retorted. "The joke's on you." "No less than seven have given me the high sign to bring you over and introduce you," Cliff Lowell went on imperturbably.
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