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"Just as if I am not as much interested in hearing celestial gossip as our worthy hostess," exclaimed Josie, making one of her most stately bows and assuming a very mock-serious air. "We can both listen, you saucy puss," said Marguerite, drawing a pair of pretty ottomans close to the sofa on which Helen sat.
How does he explain it?" "Well, he explains it pretty badly, if you ask me," said Soulsby, with a droll, joking eye and a mock-serious voice. He seated himself on the side of the bed, facing her, and still considerately shielding her from the light of the lamp he held. "But don't think I suggested any explanations. I've been a mother myself.
With Nelly Custis, however, he found it easy to be chums. No one can forget the mock-serious letter in which he wrote to her in regard to becoming engaged and gave her advice about falling in love. The letter is unexpected and yet it bears every mark of sincerity and reveals a genuine vein in his nature.
He kneels to receive a crown of ivy from the hands of the king of the revel. A group of older tipplers are filling their cups, or eyeing their brimming glasses, with tipsy, mock-serious glances. There has never been a chapter written which so clearly shows the drunkard's nature as this vulgar anacreontic.
She rushed out of doors with a cry of joy. Running across the courtyard toward her lover, who awaited her with outstretched arms, she began: "Well, this is a nice time, you outrageous " when Polly stopped her with a mock-serious look. He has been actin' up something scandalous with me." Jack threw up his hands in protest, hastily denying any probable charge that the tease might make.
The little girl bubbled with laughter and then she grew mock-serious. "No, I ain't." "Yes, you are," he repeated, shaking his head, and both were silent for a while. June was going to begin her education now and it was just as well for him to begin with it now. So he started vaguely when he was mounted again: "June, you thought my clothes were funny when you first saw them didn't you?"
They had been married some four or five years, and never during that time had been separated for a single night. "I thought you called this your home," said Gray, looking up with a mock-serious air. "I mean my old home," replied Lucy, in a half-affected tone of anger. "Or, to make it plain, I want to go, and see father and mother."
She was too sweet-tempered to take umbrage at my morose rejoinder, and went on with her mock-serious catalogue of my crimes: "And what do you think, papa? Who should it be but our patient, equable Master Douw that was near quarrelling with Walter Butler, out by the lilacs, this very morning and in the presence of ladies, too." "No one ever saw me quarrel, 'ladies' or anybody else," I replied.
He called on the Lindner every time he needed something with the power of a battle cruiser, and he praised her highly in the mock-serious arguments Rangers had with each other about the merits of their chosen ships even over the performance of such a simple maneuver as the retrieval of body-return containers. Tarlac had often wondered about the puzzle those containers presented.
"IT'S nearly a year, now, since I was home," said Lucy Gray to her husband, "and so you must let me go for a few weeks." They had been married some four or five years, and never had been separated, during that time, for twenty-four hours at a time. "I thought you called this your home," remarked Gray, looking up, with a mock-serious air.
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