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"The Kammerjunker you know; he is an excellent country gentleman. His sister, on the contrary, is a little peculiar: she belongs to that class of people who always, even wily the best intentions, say unpleasant things. She has for this quite a rare talent you will soon experience this; but she does not intend anything so bad. She can also joke!
I stuck my hand down, and it was given a vicious bite by a white, pink-eyed ferret Paul was carrying there. I yelled with pain and surprise. I pulled my hand up in the air, the ferret hanging to a finger. The ferret dropped to the ground. Paul stooped and picked it up, guffawing. It didn't bite him. It knew and feared him. That was his idea of a joke, the trick he played on me!
The leader of the moment was the man or woman who could sing the most daring song, tell the most piquant story, or play the most audacious practical joke, even on the Regent himself.
"Ha, ha!" laughed Oakshott, not having the least idea what his friend was going to say, but anxious to impress upon his guests that the joke was to be a good one. "What is it?" asked Wignet, who never believed in anyone else's capacities for story-telling. "Why," said Arthur, getting up a boisterous giggle, "you know Railsford, the new master?" "Of course. What about him?"
'This thing has gone beyond a joke, he said, 'What does it mean? The glance from under the overhanging gray brows had regained its fire. 'My orders are simple enough. I am to keep you here until to-morrow afternoon at three o'clock. 'By doing so you will ruin Maäsau as a free State and bring a most serious defeat upon the British policy. Counsellor's voice was rasping.
I leave you entirely sovereign mistress of yourself, not without some fear however that the young king will steal away your heart from me." "Ah, sire," I replied, "that is an unjust suspicion; I should be angry about it if it were not a joke, and would refuse to see the king of Denmark did I not know how fully you are assured of my attachment to you."
"Why, that's the joke of it," said Hicks, fluttered with his superior knowledge. "I've been pumping the cabin-boy, and he says the captain never saw her till yesterday. She's an up-country school-marm, and she came down here with her grandfather yesterday. She's going out to meet friends of hers in Venice."
I will not admit of any interference from you." Then she sat with her two hands on her knees, looking him full in the face. "I love you with all my heart, and am ready to tell everyone that I am to become your wife. They have a joke about it in the theatre calling me Mrs. Jones; and because nobody believes what anybody says they think you're a myth.
Sid could see horns and heads, and once in a while a man would come to the fire and drink and joke with the others. Dave came after a time. He saw Sid with Rix by the tree. Sid had tied the horse there. "Come over to the fire, and get warm," said Dave. Sid went. One of the men held out a bottle to Dave. He took it, and drank. "Give some to the youngster," said the man good-naturedly.
At the halting-places the senior officers of the staff kept together, while the aides-de-camp made up a mess of their own, always choosing a place as far away as possible from that of the chief, so that they could laugh, joke, and even sing, without fear of disturbing his lordship.
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