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When elected president of the Society of British Artists, Whistler naturally felt exultant. "Carr," he said, jokingly, to Conryns Carr, the dramatist, "you haven't congratulated me yet." "No," was the retort. "I'm waiting till the correspondence begins!" The Society did not possess a Royal Charter until Mr. Whistler became president. With some help from the Prince of Wales this was procured.
"She looked me full in the face without being nervous or intimidated and I said to myself: 'She is a queer sort of girl, that: I can quite see how that pig Morin came to make a mistake, and I went on jokingly: 'Come, mademoiselle, confess that he was excusable, for, after all, a man cannot find himself opposite such a pretty girl as you are without feeling a natural desire to kiss her.
Her father jokingly said that when the bridegroom arrived he would hardly know which sister to choose, and he looked from one comely daughter to the other with fatherly pride.
He thought it possible that Hal might be there some place, but, scan the faces as he would, he could see no sign of his chum. The crowd was good-natured, and the people jostled and pushed and shoved each other jokingly. Chester scanned the crowd once more, seeking to determine the figure of Duval, the Apache chief.
When my father heard of it, he said jokingly to Agafya Mikhailovna: "Aren't you ashamed that a man had to trudge two miles through the frost at night all for the sake of your telegram?" "Trudge, trudge? Angels bore him on their wings. Trudge, indeed! You get three telegrams from an outlandish Jew woman," she growled, "and telegrams every day about your Golokhvotika.
I jokingly whispered to my partner, a young officer on his staff: "Mon general, vous avez fait la culbute." We both thoughtlessly laughed, and were caught in the act by his Excellency at the moment when, helped to his feet, unhurt, by the bystanders, he was endeavoring to veil under an assumption of increased dignity his consciousness of the absurdity of the accident.
He was shamming, they thought. "Hello there, Ben," he called to the dock hand jokingly. "How's the tide?" "Not much tide on this here lake," replied Ben sharply. "Never knowed much about them tides, as I've lived at this hole most all my born days. But how was business to-day? That was quite a fleet. How'd you make out?"
Burns, however, had come to Edinburgh with a fixed purpose in view, and it would not do to waste his time mooning about the streets. On December 7 we find him writing to Gavin Hamilton, half seriously, half jokingly: 'I am in a fair way of becoming as eminent as Thomas
As the princess now received only two or three of these personages, she called the book, jokingly, the collection of her errors. Misfortune had made this woman a good mother.
This incited some mischievous boys from among the people to pay it a visit there, and jokingly inquire why she had so soon absented herself from among them? Others mounting the pulpit, mimicked the preacher, and challenged the papists to a dispute. A Roman Catholic waterman, indignant at this jest, attempted to pull them down, and blows were exchanged in the preacher's seat.
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