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The Count then handed the bottle back to his nephew, who, shaking it, ejaculated, "Why, we can't pledge you in return there is nothing left!" to which came the waggish response, "I beg pardon; it was so dark I couldn't see"; nevertheless there was a little remaining, as I myself can aver.
Bumble returned with a stately walk to the fireplace; and, resuming his old attitude, said, with a grave and determined air, 'I'll do it! He followed up this remarkable declaration, by shaking his head in a waggish manner for ten minutes, as though he were remonstrating with himself for being such a pleasant dog; and then, he took a view of his legs in profile, with much seeming pleasure and interest.
And pretty soon I shall be reading what the officials have to say about the year's harvest in our country; that is to say, the harvest at the theater in dollars, and in sterling. The waggish professor is enjoying himself, quite in his element. There he goes, self-assured and complacent, Sir Mediocrity in all his glory.
'What do you mean, Major? inquired Mr Dombey. 'I mean to say, Dombey, returned the Major, 'that you'll soon be an orphan-in-law. Mr Dombey appeared to relish this waggish description of himself so very little, that the Major wound up with the horse's cough, as an expression of gravity. 'Damme, Sir, said the Major, 'there is no use in disguising a fact. Joe is blunt, Sir. That's his nature.
He was continually getting into scrapes: his mother was incessantly harassed with complaints of some waggish pranks which he had played off; bills were sent in for windows that he had broken; in a word, he had not reached his fourteenth year before he was pronounced, by all the neighbourhood, to be a "wicked dog, the wickedest dog in the street!"
There was an ironical severity, at times, about the man, which misled superficial observers. I have heard of a waggish boatswain in the navy, who, when disposed to menace the crew with some of his official visitations, used to cry out, "Fellow-citizens, I'm coming among you;" and the anecdote never recurs to my mind, without bringing Marble back to my recollection.
They were speeding along through the open country with a noisy clatter; then a minute's investigation sufficed to discover the mate of the Alethea serenely ensconced in the coach behind. The little man seemed rarely complacent, and impudently greeted Kirkwood's scowling visage, as the latter peered through the window in the coach-door, with a smirk and a waggish wave of his hand.
Doubleday, whose propensities were waggish, suggested 'shaving, but half ashamed of it, since the joke missed, fell to as if he were soaping his face, and had some trouble to contract his jaw. The delay in Evan's attendance on the guests of the house was caused by the fact that Mrs.
This spectacle soon attracted to his side some half-dozen youths, with Mr. Merry at their head, who endeavored to entertain their guest in a manner that should most conduce to the indulgence of their own waggish propensities.
Haines was slumped far down in a big armchair out of which he overflowed prodigally. His feet were on a second chair. Bob wakened him ruthlessly. He sat up blinking. Bob started to speak. He stopped him with a fat uplifted hand. "I r-reckon I know what you want, y-young man," he said. Blister Haines, J. P., was by way of being a character. His waggish viewpoint was emphasized by a slight stutter.
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