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Faced with the empty hall, Christophe consoled himself bravely with Handel's quip: "Splendid! My music will sound all the better...." But these bold attempts did not repay the money they cost: and they would go back to their rooms full of indignation at the indifference of the world. In their difficulties the only man who came to their aid was a Jew, a man of forty, named Taddee Mooch.
There now and thou hadst not this matter in hand, I'd wive thee to Barbara Standish 't is the best wench alive, I do believe, and full of quip, and crank as a jest book." "Thy cousin?" asked Bradford rather absently. "Ay, but I know not just how nigh.
But Dick, his shoulder toward her, laughing over some quip of Hancock, was just turning his laughter-crinkled eyes toward her as he started to accompany Graham. No, was her thought; surely Dick had seen nothing of the secret little that had been exchanged between them. It had been very little, very quick a light in the eyes, a muscular quiver of the fingers, and no lingering.
He took his ordinary at a boilingcook's and if he had but gotten into him a mess of broken victuals or a platter of tripes with a bare tester in his purse he could always bring himself off with his tongue, some randy quip he had from a punk or whatnot that every mother's son of them would burst their sides. The other, Costello that is, hearing this talk asked was it poetry or a tale.
There was no manifest connection of cause and effect. Stevenson's letters to me were merely such notes as he might have written had we both been living within the four-mile radius; usually notes about books which he needed, always brightened with a quip and some original application of slang. Occasionally there were rhymes. One was about a lady: "Who beckled, beckled, beckled gaily."
Stanton's eyes were flashing through his gold rimmed glasses the wrath he found difficult to express. The President looked up with a friendly smile: "Well, Mars, what's the trouble now?" Stanton shook his leonine locks and beard in fury at the use of the facetious word. He loathed levity of any kind and the one kind he could not endure was the quip that came his way.
He had had to fight the worst of it through alone, for George, who had been useful as a kind of buyer and seller, who was ever all things to all men, and ready with quip and jest, and not a little uncertain as to truth to which the old man shut his eyes when there was a "deal" on had, in the end, been of no use at all, and had seemed to go to pieces just when he was most needed.
Devar approved of. "Evidently you have moved in high society, Fitzroy," she chimed in. "Yes, madam," he said. "More than once, when in a hurry, I have run madly through Mayfair." "Oh, nonsense!" she cried, resenting the studied civility of the "madam" and ruffled by the quip, "you speak of Mayfair, yet I don't suppose you really know where it is."
"The next time I ask any cavalier to escort me he will come more quickly, I imagine." He stood in front of her, and stretched out both hands. "Evelyn," he said, "here is one cavalier, at any rate, who offers himself as an escort for life." The merriment died out of her eyes, and the quip on her tongue failed her. Greatly daring, her lover took her in his arms.
He had the strangest feet, two toes behind and two in front, and when he came down near where I stood, I saw a bright-red spot on the head. When I went a step nearer, he didn't like it, and then laughed out loud at me 'Quip! Cher, cher, cher, cher! Ha! ha! ha! ha! I thought he might be some kind of a Woodpecker, but those in uncle's room are a great deal bigger."
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