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Thereon, wishing to bring the company into a gayer mood, he jollied the cupbearers, and diligently did the office of plying the drink. Then, to prevent his loose dress hampering his walk, he girdled his sword upon his side, and purposely drawing it several times, pricked his fingers with its point. The bystanders accordingly had both sword and scabbard riveted across with all iron nail.
This was a hard thing to do because if he was busy in the store he would not leave and if he wasn't busy, he would say to me, 'Vat's de use of buying, Maircus? You see, I doan sell nodding. "But this time I got the old man over to luncheon with me we were old friends, you know and I jollied him up until he was in a good humor.
As Pee-wee stood upon the cabin watching them, the swinging cans were brightened by the rays of the declining sun, and there was a chill in the air as the familiar grayness fell upon the heights, bringing to the boy that sense of loneliness which he had felt before. He was of the merriest temperament, was Pee-wee, and, as he had often said, not averse to "being jollied."
Foster, she's one of the biggest guns, you know, a regular cannon, refurnished her house last summer, and all the New York papers wanted photographs. She went cranky, and said they shouldn't have them. Wouldn't even listen to Lancaster's pleadings. But he hadn't jollied the butler for nothing.
"You worked that pretty slick," Jim said, as the chums approached him. "You jollied me along in great shape. But I'll have to take lots of rest now, to make up for it." "Well, you found out you could run if you tried," Frank remarked, as he looked at where Jim was sprawled on the grass.
Drew's maiden aunt, prim, proper and worldly-wise, was as much Aunt Sally to Filmer as she was to her niece and nephew. Jock jollied the aristocratic lady as freely as he did Drew, toward whom he held the tolerant admiration that he had given him from the beginning. But poor Jock was not to have his own easy planning of the new situation in all directions.
"The newspapers were wild about you. It was a fluke, wasn't it Clancy 'getting' you in the ninth?" "No," he muttered sullenly, "he whipped me fairly." "Really. I'm awfully sorry. When one sets one's heart upon a thing " "Will you be quiet, Una?" he cried impetuously. "I won't have you talking this way, of these things. I I was jollied into the thing.
None of them bantered her gaily to coquettish interchanges of wit. None of them loudly "jollied" her of mornings as they did Aileen, accusing her, when the eggs were slow in coming, of late hours in the company of envied swains. No one had ever given her a turquoise ring or invited her upon a voyage to mysterious, distant "Parsifal." Tildy was a good waitress, and the men tolerated her.
Flood knew it was useless to rally the boys, for a wet, hungry man is not to be jollied or reasoned with. Five days had now elapsed since we turned off the established trail, and half the time rain had been falling. Besides, our doubt as to where we were had been growing, so before we started that morning, Bull Durham very good-naturedly asked Flood if he had any idea where he was.
Oh, you've saved mine all right!" he acknowledged soberly. "And all this black, blasted night you've nursed me and fed me and jollied me without a whimper about yourself without a " Impulsively he reached out his numb-palmed hand to her, and her own hand came so cold to it that it might have been the caress of one ghost to another. "Eve Edgarton," he reiterated, "I tell you you're a brick!
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