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He said, 'I will remain quiet as a citizen; but if the Directory order me to act, I will march against all disturbers. But I can laugh at all that now. My measures are taken, and he will have no command. However, I set him at ease as to what would take place.
Frequently, when it fell calm, our Arabs would recline on the ground in a circle, singing songs of an inconceivably inharmonious and lugubrious character, while they clapped their hands in cadence, and burst at intervals into a barking laugh.
And when he used to come home day after day empty-handed and with this confession, the other's lips used to twitch with the hard struggle not to laugh at him; and he used to see the struggle and be secretly more annoyed than if he had been laughed out at.
"He's off somewhere, went away two days ago. He'll be back in a week. But you must have something to eat GOOD things!" her mind still occupied with his condition. "I'm going to have some chicken broth made the moment I get home and it will be sent fresh every day: and you must eat every bit of it!" Again St. George's laugh rang out.
Then, just as suddenly all desire to laugh expired. Why? Why was she looking forward to dining with Bull Sternford? Bull! What a quaint name. She had thought of it before. She had thought of it at the time when the lonely missionary of the forest had told her of him. Swiftly her thought passed on to her meeting with the man himself.
Had your father, young folks, possessed the commonest share of prudence, not only would this chapter of his history never have been written, but you yourselves would never have appeared in the world to plague him in a hundred ways to shout and laugh in the passages when he wants to be quiet at his books; to wake him when he is dozing after dinner, as a healthy country gentleman should: to mislay his spectacles for him, and steal away his newspaper when he wants to read it; to ruin him with tailors' bills, mantua-makers' bills, tutors' bills, as you all of you do: to break his rest of nights when you have the impudence to fall ill, and when he would sleep undisturbed but that your silly mother will never be quiet for half an hour; and when Joan can't sleep, what use, pray, is there in Darby putting on his nightcap?
I have got some jokes in that lecture that will make him laugh if there is any laugh in him; and if they miss fire, I have got some others that will make him cry or kill him, one or the other." Then the young man blessed me, and wept on my neck, and went after his uncle. He placed him in full view, in the second row of benches, that night, and I began on him.
I am certain if the other sex were more strict would positively refuse to attend places of amusement on Sabbath evenings, would refrain utterly from drinking wine themselves, and offering it to others there would be a great change here for the better. Woman little thinks how much of man's depravity can be traced back to be laid upon her shoulders." "Nonsense!" said Clinton, with a short laugh.
Jacquelina laughed, something like her old silvery laugh, as she answered: "No, uncle; though if it were not for Mimmy, I really should prefer it to marrying Grim!" "What do you mean, then? Speak!" "This, then, uncle: By what I have heard, and what I have seen, and what I have surmised, I am already as deep in your secrets respecting Grim as you are yourself."
"Please forgive me, Sir Everard. I know it was horrid of me to laugh; but you don't really care for me, you know. You only think you do; and I oh! I'm only a flighty little girl of seventeen, and I don't love anybody in the world but papa, and I never mean to be married at least, not for ages to come. Do forgive me." He bowed low, but he would neither answer nor take her hand.
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