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"No guest arrived at Green Fancy last evening, nor was one expected." Barnes stared. "Do you mean to say that she didn't get there, after all?" "She? A woman, was it?" demanded O'Dowd. "Bedad, if she said she was coming to Green Fancy she was spoofing you. Are you sure it was old Peter who gave you that jolly ride?" "No, I am not sure," said Barnes, uneasily.
"He doesn't know she's 'spoofing' him I believe that is the proper English word; isn't it?" whispered Grace, who was with her brother. "Correct, Sis." "Whatever did you want to bring him along for?" "Couldn't help it. He fastened to me when I came out of school, and I couldn't shake him off. Is Bet mad?" "You know she doesn't like him."
Be a good fellow, do, and put him out." The Briton chuckled a deprecating chuckle; meaning to say, he hoped Lanyard was spoofing; but since one couldn't be sure, one's only wise course was to play safe. "Really, Monsieur Lanyard! I'm afraid one couldn't quite do that, you know!" The sale dragged monotonously. The paintings offered were mostly of mediocre value. The gathering was apathetic.
But Lichonin, seeing Liubka every day, did not notice this and did not believe those compliments which were showered upon her by his friends. "Fool jokes," he reflected, frowning. "The boys are spoofing." As the lady of the house, Liubka proved to be less than mediocre.
"You're just spoofing us, aren't you, Rhoda?" drawled Amelia Boggs. "No, no. We do have Mexican bandits. There is Lobarto. He is no myth." "Fancy!" exclaimed one of the other girls. "A live bandit!" "Very much so," said Rhoda. "He has made us a lot of trouble, this Lobarto; although it has been six years since he came into our neighborhood last. He drove off a band of father's horses at that time.
The superficial, no doubt, will mistake this little book for a somewhat laborious attempt at jocosity. Because, incidentally to its main purpose, it unveils occasional ideas of so inordinate an erroneousness that they verge upon the ludicrous, it will be set down a piece of spoofing, and perhaps denounced as in bad taste.
"Kidding, stringing, stuffing, jollying along, blowing east wind, turning on the gas," says I. "'Spoofing' is University English. They don't use slang over there, you know." "Well, then, I spoofed him," said Petey, grinning. "He said it was remarkable how very few revolvers he had seen, and then he wanted to know why there was no shooting on the train with so much disorder.
After that I was ignored, to the huge delight of the Tommies, who joshed me unmercifully. They discovered that my middle name was Derby, and they christened me "Darby the Yank." Darby I remained as long as I was with them. Some of the questions the men asked about the States were certainly funny. One chap asked what language we spoke over here. I thought he was spoofing, but he actually meant it.
You've dished the whole affair, whatever it is.... No, no! Just spoofing, Kitty. A long face is no good anywhere, even at a funeral.... This window? All right. Know where the lights are? Very good." When Cutty saw the man on the floor he knelt quickly. "Nasty bang on the head, but he's alive. What's this? His cap. Poughkeepsie. By George, padded with his handkerchief!
Indeed, they had come for the express purpose of spoofing their late employer; to crow over him and grind his poor soul into the dirt. Fortunately for Scraggs, he was not aboard, but sounds of activity coming from the engine room aroused McGuffey's curiosity to such an extent that he descended thereto at great risk to a new suit of clothes and discovered four men at work on the boiler.
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