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Willie Willders nodded his head approvingly, and, being exasperated into a savage serio-comic condition, as well by the Eagle's voice and aspect as by her sentiments, he said that she was quite right, and that if he were a lady like her he would hold the same opinions, because then, said he, "being stout, I could wallop my husband an' keep him down, an' the contrast of his ugly face with mine would not be so obvious."
I'll tell you what, Mrs. Flint, I'll leave the clock in your care till I return on my way to the States I'll set it a-goin' and put it to the right time." As soon as this operation was performed, he delivered the key to the deacon with a sort of serio-comic injunction to wind up the clock every Saturday night, which Mrs.
Jo Bumpus, as he was fond of styling himself, said this with a serio-comic air of sarcasm, for he was an exception to the general rule of his fellows. He had little respect for, and no fear of, his commander. Although not quite so gigantic a man as his captain, he was nearly so, and, being a bold self-reliant fellow, he felt persuaded in his own mind that he could thrash him, if need were.
His interest in the strange scenes that the war brought to pass, his association with people intimate in a sense with the leading forces of rebellion, the airs of incipient grandeur, these raw instruments of government gave themselves all these things engrossed the observant faculties of the young man, who looked out upon the serio-comic harlequinade playing about him as a hostage of the Roundheads might have taken part in the showy festivities of the Cavaliers, in the years when the chances of battle had not gone over wholly to the Puritans.
"Still alive, still alive," he said, with serio-comic emphasis. "But I shall not marry now. She is General Santierra's adopted daughter and heiress." One of our fellow-guests, a young naval officer, described her afterwards as a "short, stout, old girl of forty or thereabouts." We had all noticed that her hair was turning grey, and that she had very fine black eyes.
He was indeed all sorts of a boy, and his elevation to such a post was so grotesque that the nomination, like that of his mate, was rejected by the Senate. I gave the President a serio-comic but kindly account, at which he laughed heartily, and ended by my asking how he had chanced to make two such appointments. "Hewitt came over here," he answered, "and then Dorsheimer.
On taking leave, we called the servant of the Sultan after us, and Haj Ibrahim gave into his hands a small present for the Sultan of the value of a couple of dollars, so that I maintain my position of also giving the best presents, in the case of the Sultan. To me it was a most pleasant and refreshing interview, after the serio-comic affair of Ouweek. I asked Haj Ibrahim what Shafou said to him.
He followed that with several modern serio-comic songs, all of which were received well and heartily applauded. "That recalls memories of good old times," said the road-agent, as he leaned back against the door-sill, and gazed at the mountains, grand, majestic, stupendous, and the starlit sky, azure, calm and serene. "Recalls the days of early boyhood, that were gay, pure, and happy. Ah! ho!"
Do you know," said the marquis, interrupting himself with an air of serio-comic humiliation "do you know that I actually no, you never will believe it; mind, 't is a secret actually broke my cane over one fellows shoulders? Look!" "And I half suspect, but I can't say positively, that I had even the necessity to demean myself by a blow with the naked hand, clenched too!
He looked at me with that quizzical, serio-comic stare which so became him, and with great heartiness replied: "No they were damned mean though I did not realize how mean. The mark was so obvious and tempting I could not resist, but there shall be no more of them. Come, let us go and have a drink."
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