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Updated: May 28, 2025
He would be a nine days' newspaper sensation; his whole existence would be at stake, his peace of mind, his high situation at court, the honor of his name, and all for what? That he might have the laughers against him. "What will it matter?" he cried. "I shall have had my revenge." "My pet," she said, "in a business of that kind one never has one's revenge if one doesn't take it directly."
And every time anybody laughed the sound went up to the varnished rafters, and billowed so much that the two elder women had at last to break in upon a laughter competition. Sally held aloof from the laughter, scornfully regarding the laughers. She had been rather serious all day.
Yet with these his average march was twenty miles a-day, carrying sixty pounds weight of provisions and baggage on his back. The weight of his sword, his two lances, and his intrenching tools and palisade, was not reckoned. Buonaparte has made a Concordat with the Pope. The laughers have attacked him in the following epigram:
Wilkinson and Browne will suit most admirably as eaters and laughers, and, I believe, in all other particulars. Charles Williamson has not returned from Europe, but is hourly expected. My right of franking letters will cease on the 23d of this month, so that you are not to expect pamphlets, &c., by the mail. God bless thee. Washington, March 13, 1805.
Soon, however, the laughers prevailed; and, after showing their flowers, of which they had collected many, they set themselves to work to spread out the dinner, in the most attractive way possible, and make what amends they could for the unlucky chance of the rain. An old milk stool was appropriated to the queen.
Under the low ceiling, in the narrow circular passage common in theatre lobbies, he stumbled upon a compact crowd of dandies, newspaper men, women in gorgeous hats, tightly laced, laughers by trade, shrieking with idiotic laughter as they leaned against the wall.
Do women wring their hands when I pass?" Again there was a little titter, but M'gobo, the uncle of B'chumbiri, grimacing now in his rage, was not amongst the laughers. "Yet the brave one who slew " M'gobo sprang to his feet. "Lord," he said harshly, "why do you put all men to shame for your sport?" "This is no sport, M'gobo," answered Bones quickly. "This is a palaver, a killing palaver.
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