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A wag in a recent London journal tells us, indeed, that at the most critical part in the work a gentleman opened one eye sleepily and said, "Come in." Simple-hearted Haydn was delighted at the attention lavished on him in London. The gentlemen drank freely the whole night, and the songs, the crazy uproar, and smashing of glasses were very great. "He is the handsomest man on God's earth.
The little feller, he never had a square deal before, an' because my husband an' the rest of us give it to him, he loves us to death, an' you'd think he'd bark his head off for joy when the raft o' them gets home after school. Ronald, sir that wag ain't for sale!" For a moment something akin in both held them silent. Then Mr. Ronald slowly inclined his head. "You are quite right, Martha.
But though punishment be slow to overtake, it does overtake at last; nor has the world witnessed many instances more pertinent or more famous than that of Messer Blondel. Strive as he might, tongues would wag within the council, and without. Silence as he might Baudichon and Petitot, smaller men would talk; and their talk persisted and grew, and was vigorous when months and even years had passed.
The crown-prince was in the doorway when he arrived, and came forward to meet him with such a hearty wag of the tail that any one would have thought him a most christian-minded dog, and would have imagined that he had quite forgiven Bräsig the fright he had given him the last time he was at Rexow.
D'ye dare, ye rogue? D'ye know who I am? And don't wag that pistol, my fine fellow! Be off, now! Away with you!" Mr. Green looked his name. The rosiness was all departed from his cheeks; he quivered with suppressed wrath. "If I go giving way to constraint what shall you say to my Lord Carteret?" he asked. "What concern may that be of yours, sirrah? "It will be some concern of yours, my lord."
4 August was very sick at the castle. This wag the first news of his return that reached Julia through Jonas and Cynthy Ann. But in my interest in Jonas and Cynthy Ann, of whom I think a great deal, I forgot to say that long before the events mentioned in the last chapter, Humphreys had been suddenly called away from his peaceful retreat in the hill country of Clark township.
Oh, Sanch, where is your tail your pretty tail?" A plaintive growl and a pathetic wag was all the answer he could make to these tender inquiries; for never would the story of his wrongs be known, and never could the glory of his doggish beauty be restored. Betty was trying to comfort him with pats and praises, when a new face appeared at the gate, and Thorny's authoritative voice called out,
Captain Hedgehog, who had shot a man through the heart for corking his face one night when he was drunk, and all contact with whose detonating points of honour was as carefully avoided by his acquaintance as if they had been the wires of a spring-gun, sustained Garry's reckless personalities with a sort of warning growl utterly thrown away upon the imperturbable wag, who would still persist, in the innocence of his heart, in playing round the den of this military cockatrice.
Neither of them know much, and I brought them along to black my boots and dress my hair." It looked as though Ned was a sort of a wag, for his companions smiled as if they were used to that thing. He continued: "We're a party of hunters that have been in Californy for the last five years, and I rather guess I've prospected through every part of it." "You must be rich by this time."
But the contagion spread the Italians were impressed with the wonderful exploits of the one-time Corsican corporal, and they, in turn, began to wag their heads in serious discussion of the "rights of man," as the French had done a decade before.
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