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I saw their smiles and heard some one say jokingly: "Cleopatra of Egypt!" She was trying to be fashionable, and easy, and assured, and she seemed affected and odd. She lost her simplicity and her charm. "I just told father that I was going to a rehearsal," she began, coming up to me, "and he shouted that he would take his blessing from me, and he nearly struck me.
His real property that means his houses and land belongs to me; his personal property that's his money 'll have to be divided between me, and Alice, and 'Arry. You're out of the sharing, mother. He said it jokingly, but Mrs. Mutimer did not join in his laugh. Her palms were closely pressed together; still trembling, she gazed straight before her, with a far-off look.
'You know what they say if people are seen like that where they have never been in the body? she said jokingly. 'They say it is a sign that that person is going to die. In the afternoon," Mrs.
The life she leads is rather a strain, you know." At times Diana noticed a curious aloofness in her friend, as though her professional success occupied a position of relatively small importance in her estimation, and once she had commented on it half jokingly.
What would you think if I were to say jokingly: 'How would it be if I left you alone? I am sorry that you made such a jest!" "Yes, yes, I'll say that you are right. But now, forget about it." "No! I talk of a thing as long as there is anything about it in me, when I am the offended person, and it is for me to stop talking about it when I choose.
"It shall be hung for to-night, Mr. ," she said imperiously, if jokingly, in reply to the artist's protest that his work 'would not be dry; "if," she continued, "it has to be baked dry in the cook's oven, or by the fire in the men's words engendered by their champagne lunch!" There was a general laugh.
She had visited her sister in New Salem several years before, and Lincoln remembered her as a tall, handsome, well-educated young woman, who could be serious as well as gay, and who was considered wealthy. In the autumn of 1836, her sister, Mrs. Able, then about to start on a visit to Kentucky, jokingly offered to bring Mary back if Lincoln would promise to marry her.
He met in the streets of London with an acquaintance, who pretended to patronize him. The gentleman jokingly said, "Well, Phillips, I must give you an uniform, since you are appointed captain of the port of Mogador."
In spite of his fledgling twenty-two years, Seth was an experienced Indian fighter, and Dan Somers knew it; no one better. Seth's father and mother had paid the life penalty seventeen years ago at the hands of the Cheyennes. It was jokingly said that Seth was a white Indian. By which those who said it meant well but put it badly. He certainly had remarkable native instincts.
But Cheyenne jokingly declined all invitations, explaining to Bartley that in stopping to visit they would necessarily waste hours in observing the formalities of arrival and departure, although Cheyenne did not put it just that way. They found water and plenty of feed, made their camps early, broke camp early, and rode steadily.
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