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"I'll warrant!" said he, laughing, while Dolly shot me a wayward glance from under her long lashes. "I'll warrant your eyes were fast on her from beginning to end. Come, sir, confess!" His big frame shook with the fun of it, for none in the colony could be jollier than he on holiday occasions: and the group of ladies and gentlemen beside him caught the infection, so that I was sore put to it.
"The girls all hoped you'd go, mother," said Alice, proudly, "because you're such good fun at a picnic." "Jollier!" teased Mrs. Merrill. "What would I do with Mary Jane?" "Why not take her along?" asked Alice. "She's getting big now." At that, Mary Jane who had been watching and listening all this time, dropped the napkins she had just taken out of the drawer and clapped her hands happily.
"I'll warrant!" said he, laughing, while Dolly shot me a wayward glance from under her long lashes. "I'll warrant your eyes were fast on her from beginning to end. Come, sir, confess!" His big frame shook with the fun of it, for none in the colony could be jollier than he on holiday occasions: and the group of ladies and gentlemen beside him caught the infection, so that I was sore put to it.
If Miki had stood amazed and appalled at Neewa's appetite in the days of their cubhood and puppyhood a year ago, he was more than astounded now, for in the matter of food Neewa was a bottomless pit. On the other hand he was jollier than ever, and in their wrestling matches he was almost more than a match for Miki, being nearly again as heavy.
I'm half Irish, you know. I want fellows to be friendly to me. I'd forgotten Scaife. That's rum too, because he's not the sort one forgets, is he? No. I wonder if I could get into the Demon's room next term?" "I'm to his room. It's a three-room." "A two-room is much jollier." "Our room is not bad." Caesar was hardly listening. John caught a murmur: "The old Demon and I would get along capitally."
All the same, it would have been much jollier just taking hands by themselves somewhere, and saying out before God what they really felt because, after all, God was everything, everywhere, not only in stuffy churches. That was how HE would like to be married, out of doors on a starry night like this, when everything felt wonderful all round you.
You see, I don't stay at home much, only when I have to. We don't have a round table with a red cloth and a lamp on it, and children 'round it playing games and doing things, and fathers and mothers reading and mending. And it's lots jollier where they do have them. Nurse says my father and mother ought never to have been married. That's what I heard her tell our Bridget one day.
Of course, we shall have to come back before six; but we must make believe we've landed there for good, and see how we manage. And, of course, if we get on there, we're bound to get on at New Swishford, for it's a far jollier place than the Long Stork." Bowler's proposition was hailed with acclamation.
That evening, just before supper, Valentine felt some one touch him on the shoulder, and turning round saw that it was his cousin. "I've seen Queen Mab, as you call her," remarked the latter, "and, I say I like her rather." "I knew you would. She's an angel only jollier." "She made me promise I'd go there for the holidays." "Oh, that's fine!" cried Valentine.
"If we were boarded, Miss Cullen," I said, "your jewelry would be as safe as it is in Chicago, for the robbers would only clean out the express- and mail-cars; but if they should so far forget their manners as to take your trinkets, I'd agree to return them to you inside of one week." "That makes it all the jollier," she cried, eagerly.
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