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Mrs Veneering faintly remarks, as dinner opens, that many such days would be too much for her. 'Many such days would be too much for all of us, says Podsnap; 'but we'll bring him in! 'We'll bring him in, says Lady Tippins, sportively waving her green fan. 'Veneering for ever! 'We'll bring him in! says Twemlow. 'We'll bring him in! say Boots and Brewer.
I shiver and think it time to be disconsolate, but, taking a farewell glance at dead Nature in her shroud, I perceive a flock of snowbirds skimming lightsomely through the tempest and flitting from drift to drift as sportively as swallows in the delightful prime of summer. Whence come they? Where do they build their nests and seek their food?
"A dragon?" cried Bradford, "Mark is a story-teller, and you are a goose; but if there is one, I will catch him for you"; and he stood on the brink of the well, and sportively threw his line into it.
"Where's my share, Ned?" asked Zoe, issuing from the inner room, where she had been engaged in taking off her hat and smoothing her fair tresses. "Your share? Well, really I don't know; unless you'll accept the mail-carrier as such," he returned sportively. "Captain Baxter?" she asked in mock astonishment. "I'd rather have a letter by half."
"If you will accept of my assistance," he replied, "we can immediately commence a course of elementary studies of the human figure; after which," added he sportively, "you may employ me as a model. In return for my instructions in painting, you must promote my ardent wish to attain a competent knowledge of modern Greek.
It was just the sort of woollen-headed thing fellows did, forgetting facts like that. He scrambled stiffly to his feet and tried to pierce the darkness that hemmed him in. He ignored Smith, who snuffled sportively about his ankles, and made for the slightly less black oblong which he took to be the door leading into the hall.
And in the dance each seemed to be sportively creative, ruled by his own sweet will. "That's why I love the tarantella more than any other dance," Hermione murmured to her husband, "because it seems to be the invention of the moment, as if they were wild with joy and had to show it somehow, and showed it beautifully by dancing. Look at Gaspare now."
In fact, throughout this Hymn we are far from the solemn regard paid to Apollo, from the wistful beauty of the Hymn to Demeter, and from the gladness and melancholy of the Hymn to Aphrodite. Sportive myths are treated sportively, as in the story of Ares and Aphrodite in the Odyssey. Myths contained all conceivable elements, among others that of humour, to which the poet here abandons himself.
The fish wriggled about the table, to the marvellous diversion of the king, who took of them in his turn and sportively cast them back to the damsels; and on this wise they frolicked awhile, till such time as the servant had cooked the fish which had been given him and which, Messer Neri having so ordered it, were now set before the king, more as a relish than as any very rare and delectable dish.
The baron brought with him a packet of opened letters; when he saw me alone he wished to retire, for the servants, believing him to be one of the expected guests, had ushered him in. However, I would not permit him to go until the king's arrival; and, half sportively, half seriously, I took from him his letters, protesting I would detain them as hostages for his obedience to my desires.
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