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He felt exceedingly proud of his exploits as a jester, and was jollier than ever before. Okoya listened for a while to the clumsy and not always chaste jokes of his parent, and then retired to the estufa. The next morning, bright and refreshed, he strolled back to the house for breakfast, expecting to meet his father, who would assign him his day's work. Zashue had gone already.
"But I thought you wanted a funny one, Faith," put in her sister. "Now, this looks much jollier; see how he jumps about and grimaces."
A jollier dinner Caper acknowledged he had never known.
Pending the departure for Severndale, Mrs. Harold had, at Captain Stewart's request, engaged three extra rooms, thus practically preempting her entire corridor for her guests, and a jollier party it would have been hard to find than the one escorted down to the big dining-room that evening by "The Executive Officer," as Captain Stewart called Mrs. Harold, who was acting as chaperone for his party.
"I feel I ought to go anyhow," she resumed, "and of course it would be jollier if you came too. You'd get in such a muddle here by yourself, and eat wrong things, and forget to air the rooms, and oh, everything!" She looked up laughing. "Only," she added, "there's the British Museum ?" "But there's a big library there," I answered, "and all the books of reference I could possibly want.
Frank allowed scent and ivories to be pressed upon him by the young lady at the counter; Willy declined to be led into such extravagances. As he stepped out into the shine of the street, and took step from his friend, he said: "By George! it makes me feel young again. It is just like old times." "Yes, it does make one feel jollier, doesn't it?" "How jolly it is here; not too warm, just nice.
"It may be stupid, but it's my way." "Don't you like me better when I cry than when I laugh?" asked Elisabeth, who never could resist a personal application. "Good gracious, no! I always like you the same; but I'd much rather you laughed than cried it is so much jollier for you; in fact, it makes me positively wretched to see you cry."
Gee! but he's a grand jollier. And I thought the man's eyes would drop out; I almost felt like holdin' out my hands to catch 'em. And he says to my Pa, he says, 'Where do you come from? and Pa says, 'A free country, he says, 'where every man gets a square deal and can say what he likes. "Well, the man looked at him hard and he says, very sarkastic, he says, 'Where's that?
We will have that ready in a little while." "Now what could be jollier than this?" cried Gay, as she took the long, pointed switch that Rob cut for her, and held a piece of bacon over the fire to broil. "It's a thousand times nicer than a picnic in the summer, when you get so hot, and the mosquitoes and redbugs and spiders swarm all over you."
Uncle John and Aunt Kate and Laura and Maud and Mary were looking on, and they knew what Ally was thinking of, the very words of it, by that sudden radiant smile upon her face; and Mary was so pleased thereat, she had to cry out, "Oh, what a jolly Thanksgiving this is! Could anything be added to make it jollier?" But something was added.
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