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Since she had given a good deal of feminine diplomacy to the task of keeping him at a reasonable distance, Bromfield was naturally surprised. "That's certainly a leading question," he parried, "What are you up to, Bee? Are you spoofing me?" "I'm proposing to you," she explained, with a flirt of her hand and an engaging smile toward a man and a girl who had just come into the Palm Room.
You can get messenger-boys to go anywhere and do anything nowadays. Derek ought to have thought of that." Freddie looked at her doubtfully. "You're spoofing, aren't you? I mean to say, you wouldn't have liked that!" "I shouldn't have disliked it any more than his sending you." "Oh, but I wanted to pop over. Keen to see America and so forth." Jill looked past him at the gloomy stage.
"Spoofing me what?" said Hawksley, appealing to his host. This quality of light irony in a woman was a distinct novelty to Hawksley. She had humour, then? So much the better. An added zest to the game he was planning. He recalled now that she was not of the clinging kind either. A woman with a humorous turn of mind was ten times more elusive than a purely sentimental one.
"Admit nothing," said Petey; "he took it all down in his notebook and remarked that in a wild country like this, remote from civilization, a knowledge of bread-making would undoubtedly be invaluable to a man." "He was spoofing you," says I. "He wasn't," said Petey; "he thinks he's a thousand miles from a plug hat this minute.
Gutch's nose, spoke his mind: "Say, you white-faced unhealthy dirty-minded lump, I ain't much of a fighter, but I'm going to muss you up so's you can't find your ears if you don't apologize for those insinuations." "Oh, Mr. Wrenn " "He didn't mean " "I didn't mean " "He was just spoofing " "I was just spoofing " Bill Wrenn, watching the dramatization of himself as hero, was enjoying the drama.
"Good gracious, Andrew, you don't mean it?" "I am delivering a message, Mrs. McKaye." "She must be spoofing you," Jane declared. "Well, she laughed a good deal about it, Miss Jane, and confided to me that a bit of lurking devil in your sister's eyes the day you both met her in the telegraph office gave her the inspiration for this joke. She believes that she who laughs last laughs best." Mrs.
Cutty might mix his metaphors occasionally, but he wasn't going to mix his ghosts. He returned to his singular game. More tiaras and necklaces; and his brain took firm hold of the theme which had in the beginning lured him to the green stones. Two-Hawks. That name bothered him. He knew he had heard it before, but never in the Russian tongue. It might be that the chap had been spoofing Kitty.
You are spoofing me, Miss Meriem. You have been kind to these baboons here and they know you and do not molest you; but that you once lived among them no, that is preposterous." "But I did, though," insisted the girl, seeing the real horror that the man felt in the presence of such an idea reflected in his tone and manner, and rather enjoying baiting him still further.
"You're not 'spoofing me, as our British brothers put it?" "It's an honest-to-goodness bad corner especially at night," Charlie returned quite seriously now. "Boches know we fellows have to use it " "You mean the ambulances?" "Yep. They spot us. We run without lights, you know; but every once in a while they drop a shell there. They have the range perfectly.
It had become absurdly evident as I listened that the whole thing was but spoofing of a silly sort that lads of this age will indulge in, for I had seen the younger one take his seat at the luncheon table. But now they spoke of a raid on the settlement to procure "grub," as the American slang for food has it.
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