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His friends had been kind to him, and he desired to show them that a man of the West could not only appreciate such things, but return them. The dinner was a thorough success. Not an invited guest was absent. The conversation sparkled. Quip and repartee shot across the "festive board," and all went merry as a dinner-bell. The host was satisfied, and proud withal.
How I dreaded it, how I sought to escape their mock and go home, poor fool! but the little gray governess saw them all first, I must believe, for there was not a quip or a look askance, and they treated me as bairns treat a lamb that has tint its mother. And so seeing I had lost my fair skin, I put myself to gain other things in its place, and worked hard at my stents, at my music, my books.
Perhaps the blush stayed the intended quip, but any way the old gentleman contented himself with a beaming laugh, and led the way to the supper table, rubbing his hands and chuckling. The meal was quietly jovial, and if, after it, Old Brown was not quite so fast asleep as he pretended to be, at least his patience gave the lovers the shelter they needed.
Stupid people may think he is, because his language is charged with the lightning's flash; but these be the people who do not know the difference between an incubator and an eggplant. Touchstone, with unfailing loyalty, follows his master with quip and quirk into exile.
'In what language do your Voices speak? asked he. 'In a better language than yours, said Joan, and the bishops smiled at the country quip. 'We may not believe in you, said Seguin, 'unless you show us a sign. 'I did not come to Poictiers to work miracles, said Joan; 'take me to Orleans, and I shall show you the signs that I am sent to do. And show them she did.
Next morning the rest of the party on waking up also found that all had changed, and saw that they had been sleeping on the ground in the cypress-grove. On making search they found Pa-chieh bound fast to a tree. They cut him down, to pursue the journey a sadder and wiser Pig, and the butt of many a quip from his fellow-travellers. The Lotus Cave
"Nay, Morton, what do you grieve for? that Age should throw off its fardel of aches and pains, and no longer groan along its weary road, meeting cold looks and unwilling welcomes, as both host and comrade grow weary of the same face, and the spendthrift heart has no longer quip or smile wherewith to pay the reckoning? No, no: let the poor pedler shuffle off his dull pack, and fall asleep.
"We're about a hundred feet up," said Edmund quietly. "What do you think of it now?" "Wonderful! wonderful!" we exclaimed in a breath. And I continued: "And do you say that it is inter-atomic energy that does this?" "Nothing else in the world," returned Edmund. But bantering Jack must have his quip: "By the way, Edmund," he demanded, "what was it that Archimedes dreamed?
Beginning with quip and jest and paradox, aimed now at him, now at the officer who had remained to keep him company in his cups, now at the servants who ministered to him, now at the guards standing at attention, I passed on later to play the part of narrator, and I delighted his foul and prurient mind with the story of Andreuccio da Perugia and another of the more licentious tales of Messer Giovanni Boccacci.
It is a profound foolishness, a cosmic trick and quip, to the contemplative eye of the philosopher yes, and of the futurist.
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