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Updated: May 22, 2025
There was a high boxwood hedge in front of us; and, just as I came close enough once more to stake my all on a single grab, Aunt Elizabeth, with another of her sardonic chuckles, dived in head-foremost and struggled through in the mysterious way in which birds do get through hedges. The sound of her faint spinster-like snigger came to me as I stood panting, and roused me like a bugle.
"Them little bits o' paper there was some talk about." "Oh, aye, I was forgettin' them." "Was you, then? I wasn't," said Monkey brutally. "Dole 'em out." The fat man obeyed with a snigger; then shuffled softly down the passage and out. Monkey Brand heard him open the door and cross the yard. Then a voice called: "Hi at him!" There was a scurry of pursuing feet, a scuffle, and a yell.
Perhaps he's under the mystic spell of some "wily Vivien" even now, and laying foolish wagers in his mesmeric sleep. "Can woman hypnotize man? "Well, I should snigger.
Yet he did not really admire the men-servants for being in the cellars. Somehow it seemed mean of them not to be ready to take any risks, however unnecessary. Robin, hiding her surprise and confusion in a nervous snigger, banged the heavy door, and led him through the halls and up the staircases.
"Where's the housekeeper?" demanded he, putting down his bag and relieving himself of his overcoat. "'Ousekeeper! Oh yus," said the boy, with a snigger; "no 'ousekeepers 'ere." "Where are my rooms, then?" asked Reginald, beginning to think it a pity the Corporation had brought him down all that way before they were ready for him.
For Mr Saunders, the second mate, with Matthews and the other apprentices had started aft to their quarters the moment the anchor had been dropped and all things made snug forwards; Mr Mackay had disappeared from the poop, having taken our river pilot down into the cuddy for a glass of grog prior to his departure for the shore to make his way back by land to the docks he had started from, unless he could pick up a job of another vessel going up, and so "combine business with pleasure," as Sam Weeks remarked to Matthews with a snigger, as if he had said something extremely funny; while Adams and the other two sailors, the remaining hands we had aboard, had likewise proceeded towards the cuddy by the boatswain's advice to try and wheedle the steward Pedro into giving them some tea, there not being as yet any cook in the ship to look after the messing arrangements of the crew, so that they were all adrift in this respect, having no proper provision made for them.
A gratified snigger arose from the other eleven good men and true, and the cobbler grinned savagely; but before he could think of a suitable rejoinder the coroner interposed. "The question is not very material," he said, "and we mustn't embarrass the police by unnecessary inquiries." "It's my belief," said the cobbler, "that he knew they were there all the time."
A snigger from the doorway gave point to the words; on which Lady Dunborough turned wrathfully in that direction. But the prudent landlord had slipped away, Sir George also had retired, and the servants and others, concluding the sport was at an end, were fast dispersing.
"Oh, yes," I answered with a snigger, "I think, though, it's rather far-fetched." "So it is," said he. "It came from Madeira; and that's some six hundred miles, more or less, from where we now are." At that moment, Corporal Macan appeared at the door of the gunroom and walked up to where I was sitting.
You have to decide whether you will be on the side of the angels or on the side of the nincompoops. There is no surer sign of imperfect development than the impulse to snigger at what is unusual, naïve, or exuberant. And if you choose to do so, you can detect the cat walking across the stage in the sublimest passages of literature. But more advanced souls will grieve for you.
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