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She was but three-and-thirty years old, and looked five-and-twenty. She was active, brisk, jovial, and alert; and so good-looking, that it was a wonder she had not taken a successor to Captain Mackenzie. James Binnie cautioned his friend the Colonel against the attractions of the buxom siren; and laughingly would ask Clive how he would like Mrs. Mackenzie for a mamaw?
But by the time the fifty thousand, even the hundred thousand, English soldiers are in Belgium, there will be a million of our fellows there to meet them." "What are you going to say at this meeting?" asked the other curiously; he used the English word, though they still spoke German. Mr. Hegner shrugged his shoulders. "This is not going to be a meeting," he said laughingly.
"Just don't drive too rapidly, specially coming home. I shall have to get a limousine, I think, when my ship comes in, John." John's grizzled old face twitched. So evident were the words that were not spoken that Billy asked laughingly: "Well, John, what is it?" John reddened furiously. "Nothing, Miss.
We've just sat down, and you'll make us get up again. Go and rest; be quick! To-morrow, there are to be some more grand doings!" Chia Chen assented with alacrity. "But Jung Erh should remain to replenish the cups," he smiled; "it's only fair that he should." "Quite so!" answered old lady Chia laughingly. "I forgot all about him." "Yes!" acquiesced Chia Chen.
I put 'em up fer him, an' then he asked fer six doughnuts an' some gingerbread, an' a cup o' coffee an' he wanted 'em all in a paper." "Not the coffee, Jimmy," said Nan, laughingly, as the boy stopped to take breath. "No, 'course not the coffee.
"I'll be in smocks at feeding-time in the morning, Bud, just as you will be in overalls," I answered laughingly. "My, but you are a sight!" said Mrs. Tillett, as she handed up Baby Tillett to me, with such a beaming countenance that I knew she meant a complimentary construction to be placed upon her words. "Now, just take up them little girls and set 'em down easy, Mr.
"Now then, get ashore with your wife, Velo," said Barry laughingly to the faithful Samoan; "perhaps Mrs. Tracey may come and see you and Paní this evening." "Of course I shall, Velo," said Mrs. Tracey, whose dark eyes were dancing with pleasure; "Toea and I mean to sleep ashore to-night with the Tebuan people, and come on board early in the morning. And I have some presents for little Paní."
My question skewed him that I knew his origin, and he began to speak openly to me; and knowing that I was acquainted with the peculiar tastes of M. de Mocenigo, the ambassador, he informed me laughingly that he was his pathic. "I will do my best for you," he added; and I was glad to hear him say so, for an Alexis should be able to obtain almost anything from his Corydon.
"You're quite right in what you say, master;" both Ch'ien Ch'i and Li Kuei chimed in laughingly; "but pretend you're lazy and don't get down. In the event of our coming across Mr. Lai Ta and our number two Mr. Lin, they're sure, rather awkward though it be for them to say anything to their master, to tender you one or two words of advice, but throw the whole of the blame upon us.
Instinctively Blanche bent over the cradle, as if to protect the Neogilos; but the child, waking, turned from her, and attracted by the glitter of the hilt, laid one hand lustily thereon, and pointed with the other, laughingly, to Roland. "Only on my uncle's proviso," said I, hesitatingly. "For hearth and altar, nothing less!"
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