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"This driver may be a philanthropist in disguise," he answered, with dreamy irony, "and may want us to think about the people who are not merely carried through this street in a coupe, but have to spend their whole lives in it, winter and summer, with no hopes of driving out of it, except in a hearse. I must say they don't seem to mind it. I haven't seen a jollier crowd anywhere in New York.
He had come to his odd conclusions as the funny people do in Scandinavia and in Russia, and among the rich intellectuals and usurers in London and Berlin; but he was a jollier man than they are, for he could drive a horse and lie about it, and he could also milk a cow. As we parted he used a phrase that wounded me, and which I had only heard once before in my life.
This, however, was not sufficient to order horses the next morning. We were likewise in a state of delightful uncertainty as to our future progress, but this very uncertainty gave a zest to our situation, and it would have been difficult to find two jollier men with frozen noses.
I fight this woman not only because she fights me, but because I foresee the most appalling catastrophe. She wants Rickie, partly to replace another man whom she lost two years ago, partly to make something out of him. He is to write. In time she will get sick of this. He won't get famous. She will only see how thin he is and how lame. She will long for a jollier husband, and I don't blame her.
"I think," said Mr Ross, with a bit of a twinkle in his eye, "that there would have been seen along here somewhere three tired, down- hearted boys trudging along on snowshoes and mourning the loss of twelve splendid dogs." "Well," said Frank, "I am glad we did not get up a wolf fight, for this is jollier than trudging along all day on snowshoes."
I think it is really something to be proud of, being a sailor. It is glorious, it it it's jolly, that's what it is, sir!" "A jolly sight jollier being in bed on a cold night like this," muttered Weeks, who was shivering by the skylight, the tarpaulin cover of which he had dragged round his legs for warmth. "Don't you think so, sir?"
Young Bute has a baritone voice of some richness. We remembered at quarter-past eleven that Veronica ought to have gone to bed at eight. We were all of us surprised at the lateness of the hour. "Why can't we always live in a cottage and do just as we like? I'm sure it's much jollier," Veronica put it to me as I kissed her good night. "Because we are idiots, most of us, Veronica," I answered.
What with the band, the influx of some half a dozen new ladies, and the constant arrival of officers en route to the front, the garrison not unnaturally remarked that Russell was jollier now that the th had gone than it was before. And now Mrs. Truscott and the very interesting Miss Sanford were coming. This was indeed news! They were to take quarters next to the Stannards, and be Mrs.
'No. I thought I heard him. I must see him to-morrow. 'And I must see yours. May it not be a pleasure to-night? I've no doubt you go and gloat over him at night. 'Well, I do generally run up after dinner; but after your day, I can't think of dragging you up all these stairs. 'Oh, that's nothing! Only you see it is jollier to have my Billy-boy in the next room.
But my heart was heavy; consequently my heels were not light. My faint attempts at pirouettes were not satisfactory. "Dance jollier, or we'll hang you," said Plickaman. "No," says Judge Pyke, "the sentence of the Court has been executed. In the sacred name of Justice I protest against proceeding farther.
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