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The fact that Tom did not happen to be on duty at the next Club dinner gave me an opportunity to repeat his mysterious remark to Manners, and to jokingly warn that rising young lawyer against the indiscretion of vague counsel. Manners, however, only shrugged his shoulders.
He would always be dissatisfied with his women so his friends jokingly declared until they flung their arms round his neck. What was lacking in his power that he could not endow them with life? Very little, no doubt. Sometimes he went beyond the right point, sometimes he stopped short of it. One day the words, 'an incomplete genius, which he overheard, both flattered and frightened him.
I added jokingly for I was obliged to adopt a humorous tone that before long Europe would take pity on Poland, which had to bear the heavy weight of all the Russias and the kingdom of Prussia as well, and the Commonwealth would find itself relieved of all these charges. My prophecy has been fulfilled.
Scarce an hour passed that did not bring its recollection of Korak, and its poignant yearning to see him again. Meriem spoke English fluently now, and read and wrote it as well. One day My Dear spoke jokingly to her in French and to her surprise Meriem replied in the same tongue slowly, it is true, and haltingly; but none the less in excellent French, such, though, as a little child might use.
"Leigh is a leech when she has the chance," Jo said jokingly, as the two sat in the Aydelot buggy at last. When one has grown up from babyhood the ruling spirit in a neighborhood, her opinions are to be accepted. Thaine gave Jo a quick look but said nothing. "By the way, papa says Jim isn't very well this summer. Says he still grieves over the farm he lost.
DeVere, had taken a liking to Jepson. "Are you all right?" "All right, Miss Alice," he replied. "No harm done at all." "I thought sailors never fell overboard," she said, half jokingly. "I supposed they were so sure-footed that accidents like that never happened to them." "They don't not usual like, Miss," said Jack with that earnest, honest air that characterized him.
We began to classify the new girls as they came out, jokingly calling them "Kitchener's" Army, "Derby's Scheme," and finally, "Conscripts." The old "regulars" of course put on most fearful side. Then one by one the new ones would slink back rather ashamed of their enthusiasm and take their seats, and in time they in turn would smile indulgently as the still newer ones dashed out to watch.
"No," Barnett replied, jokingly, "mine is an out-and-out sporting paper!" "Oh," said Whistler, "that accounts for it." "Accounts for what?" "Well, you see," said Whistler, with an exquisite sneer, "I have been watching you gentlemen of the press all morning.
Then the fore-topmast crosstrees reports a sail on the weather quarter, the Richard is brought around on the wind, and away we go after a brigantine, "flying like a snow laden with English bricks," as Midshipman Coram jokingly remarks. A chase is not such a novelty with us that we crane our necks to windward. At noon, when I relieved Mr.
"You say that the lieutenant threatened to Padre Damaso that " "Yes, Padre," broke in Fray Sibyla with a faint smile, "but this morning I saw him and he told me that he was sorry for what occurred last night, that the sherry had gone to his head, and that he believed that Padre Damaso was in the same condition. 'And your threat? I asked him jokingly.
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