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Rejoined the fox, laughing, "How excellent is what the learned say of him who aboundeth in ignorance like unto thee!" Asked the wolf, "What do the wise men say?" And the fox answered, "They have observed that the gross of body are gross of mind, far from intelligence and nigh unto ignorance.
"Grotesque idiot," said Kenrick, laughing; "cease this weak, washy, everlasting flood of twaddle, and tell us whether you'll come or no." "Him sternly eyeing, addressed in reply the mighty Henderides, Heavy with tea, with the eyes of a dog, and the heart of a reindeer! What word has escaped thee, the barrier of thy teeth? Contrary to right, not according to right, hast thou spoken."
If those hulking footmen who accompanied the carriages to the opening of Parliament the other day, would form a plush brigade, wear only gunpowder in their hair, and strike with their great canes on the enemy, Mr. Punch would leave off laughing at Jeames, who meanwhile remains among us, to all outward appearance regardless of satire, and calmly consuming his five meals per diem.
Aimy now called his other daughter to him, who also came laughing; and he then advised me to take them both. "On this, Aimy told them they were 'tabooed' to me, and directed us all three to go home together, which we did, followed by several of the natives.
And, as he spoke, his cousin unconsciously recognised more of affection in his tone, and less of that spirit of bargaining which had seemed to pervade all his former pleas, than she had ever found before. "And do I not love you? Have I not offered to be to you in all respects as a sister?" "That is nothing. Such an offer to me now is simply laughing at me.
Morris set the example of running in another direction, followed by his boys and by the voice of the driver. "Why, that's worse," he cried. "That's about the way he'd go." "Then which what why Here, what are you two laughing at?" This to Glyn, who was stamping about with delight.
"Drag something up here," prompted the freckled tomboy, "or I'll make you dance with me yourself." She grabbed a coat lapel, and started away with him. I turned and laughed into the laughing face of the dark girl.
To be Providence itself; actually to fulfil that futile wish, 'If heaven were to send us twenty thousand francs a year, that silly wish we all make, laughing; to bring opulence to a family sitting by the light of one miserable lamp over a poor turf fire! no, words cannot describe it. My extreme justice seemed to them unjust. Well! if there is a Paradise my father is happy in it now.
I could see that the adjutant and the colonel and two majors, were laughing, and many of the visitors were trying to keep from laughing.
For instance she noted that Mrs. Brenning was on the other side of grandma, and wondered whether she were atoning for the sins of her chickens against Mrs. Jones's tomato-vines; she noticed, too, that Mrs. Brenning's hat had become askew, which gave her a queer, unsuitable, rakish look. Yet Missy didn't feel like laughing. She felt like closing her eyes and waiting to be born anew.
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