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She would get rid of Marie and Suddenly a smile came to her lips. "Why do you larf?" asked Ibrahim. "Because it is so fine, because I'm happy," she said. Really she had smiled at the thought of her explanation to Nigel: "I don't want a maid here. I want to learn to be simple, to do things for myself. And how could I take her to the Fayyūm?" Nigel would be delighted. And the Fayyūm without a maid?
Ki! she tinks no culled gemmen in dese parts fit ter hole a cannle when she braid her long straight ha'r, but when she see de ribbin I kin git her ter tie dat ha'r up wid, an' de earrings I kin put in her ears, she larf on toder side ob her face. 'Fo' I go I'se a-gwine ter buy dat ar gole ring ob Sam Milkins down at de tavern.
There was flat derision in the following laughter, and Percival dug his heel in the sod. "Larf ahead! Hany one else try 'er?" "Oh, shut up!" said some one across the ring. "We're pitchin' shoes." Percival slouched off after his knife, and the frieze of small boys scattered except a lint-haired Cameron who was nursing a stray cat busily, cross-legged against the green boarding.
My cockt hat fell off, and sumhow my coat tales got twisted round my neck. The young ladies put their handkerchers to their mouths and remarked: "Te he," while my ancient female single friend, Sary Peasley, bust out in a loud larf. She exercised her mouth so vilently that her new false teeth fell out onto the ground.
"I knows all 'bout that, but I don't like these goin's on, ez ef I wuz a nachel-bawn fool, en had ter bleve all folks sez. I've been taken in too often. When I wuz with the Johnnies they'd say ter me, 'Yankee Blank, see that ar critter? That's a elephant. When I'd call it a elephant, they'd larf an' larf till I flattened out one feller's nose.
He tells that to every stranger, every stranger larfs, and the two parsons larf, and the old 'Sir' larfs so, he wakes up an old sleepin' cough that most breaks his ribs, and Thomas is set up for a character. "Well, arter servants is gone, and women folks made themselves scarce, we haul up closer to the table, have more room for legs, and then comes the most interestin' part.
We used to go walks in Battersea Park of a Sunday afternoon. Me in my topper, and 'im in 'is; and the girl's well stylish. There wasn't many in Battersea Park 'ad the larf of us. She wasn't what you'd call pretty, but a nicer girl I never met. I liked 'er from the start, and, well though I say it who shouldn't she liked me. You know 'ow it is, I dessay?" I pretended I did.
One minnit you're makin' us larf fit to kill ourselves, and then you're nearly makin' us cry with your Dick, and your great eyes runnin' over like that. Now get away, and take the dogs their supper, and see if you can't get a bit of color in your cheeks before you come back." So off Joe went, and soon the frantic barking in the stable-yard showed he had begun feeding his four-footed pets.
"Sais he, 'she ain't a bad mare; and if she could eat bay, might do a good deal of work yet, and he gave a kinder chuckle laugh at his own joke, that sounded like the rattles in his throat, it was so dismal and deep, for he was one o' them kind of fellers that's too good to larf, was Steve.
Oh dear, dear convarted men, though they won't larf themselves, make others larf the worst kind, sometimes; don't they? "I do believe, on my soul, if religion was altogether left to the voluntary in this world, it would die a nateral death; not that men wouldn't support it, but because it would be supported under false pretences. Truth can't be long upheld by falsehood.
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