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Did you ever try to till a whole section of land back in Ohio before the war?" Virginia asked laughingly. Asher took the towel from his head to look at her. "You are older than when I first knew you the little lady of the old Jerome Thaine mansion home. But you haven't lost any of that girl's charms and you have gained some new ones with the years."
Then he pressed Moritz, Angelica, and his own wife, to his heart, and said laughingly, that he did not care to hear another syllable about the wicked plot they had been laying against him, and hoped, too, that Angelica would have no more trouble with spectral eyes. It being now well on in the day, the Colonel begged Moritz and the Count to remain and have dinner.
"Complimentary to our distant relation!" said my guardian laughingly to Ada and Richard. "I would beg Miss Clare's pardon and Mr. Carstone's pardon," resumed our visitor, "if I were not reassured by seeing in the fair face of the lady and the smile of the gentleman that it is quite unnecessary and that they keep their distant relation at a comfortable distance."
"No," she said, laughingly, "I don't believe anything more will happen to-day, and as soon as the old clock downstairs strikes twelve I think the light of reason will burn again in your disordered mind. Good- night." Instead of going, however, she hesitated, looked at me earnestly a moment, then asked: "You said you found me unconscious?" "Yes." "How did you revive me?"
"I have already had my morning's exercise." "And so have I," Reynolds laughingly replied, as he seated himself astern and sent the canoe from the wharf. "But of a different nature, though?" and Glen looked quizzically into his face. "Quite different. I exercised my lungs, and your father did the same." "Not in anger, I hope." "Oh, no. We had a great heart to heart talk, and got on splendidly.
Both gentlemen were a little struck with the distant hauteur of John Effingham, whose bow, while it fulfilled all the outward forms, was what Eve used laughingly to term "imperial." The bustle of preparation, and the certainty that there would be no want of opportunities to renew the intercourse, prevented more than the general salutations, and the new-comers descended to their state-rooms.
Ferguson, too well known in the politics of later years, but now only a beautiful and gay woman, Madam Allen, and Madam Chew, the wife of the Attorney-General. They were eagerly discussing, and laughingly inquiring of my father, what colour of masks for the street was to be preferred.
"Then," said Percival, laughingly, "what, my good friend, will you ever do with your money?" Beck put his finger to his nose, sunk his voice into a whisper, and replied solemnly: "I 'as a mattris." "A mistress," said Percival. "Oh, a sweetheart. Well, but if she's a good girl, and loves you, she'll not let you spend your money on her."
Hester laughingly resisted, and they wrestled for the box a little, till Hester suddenly let it go. "Take it then and good luck to you! I wouldn't spoil my teeth and my complexion as you do not for tons of sweets. Hullo!" the speaker sprang up "the rain's over, and it's quite a decent evening. I shall go out for a run and take Roddy."
I have a fancy, if I were to try to attain to it, that it would be the old fable of the toad and the ox again being enacted. What is your opinion? 'It is not a subject for jesting, I said gravely; and I rose from my seat to move away. She laughingly caught hold of both my hands and detained me. 'Now you are my prisoner, and I shall not let you escape till you have answered a few questions.
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