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Well, if I could only inform her lawyer what I've done for him, he might induce my fair patient to employ me permanently." He smiled at his joke, shook his head waggishly, and turned to look for his hat. As Mrs. Tarbell looked after him in some perplexity, John, the office-boy, came back to report that the carriage was engaged and at the door; and Mrs.
If so, talk about Aristotle and Pluto to me. 'D'ye knaw who ye're speaking to? roared out the Scotch gentleman, Mr. Boswell, at this. 'Hold your tongue, Mr. Boswell, said the old schoolmaster. 'I had no right to brag of my Greek to the gentleman, and he has answered me very well. 'Doctor, says I, looking waggishly at him, 'do you know ever a rhyme for ArisTOTLE?
'Scuse ma laffin', Mr. Moore he! he! he!" A little man, all wet and shrunk, sat hunching on a mound above them, rocking his shrivelled form to and fro in the agony of his merriment. "Ye raskil he! he! Ye rogue he! he!" and he shook his fist waggishly at the unconscious gray dog.
One night, at the end of the winter, she astonished everybody by appearing with Fanny Brassfield in a box at the opera, wearing a black velvet dress that made her, in that great horseshoe blooming with flowerlike gowns, the objective of all eyes. "There is hope!" said one young man waggishly to another. "Cornie Rysbroek ought to see this." But Cornelius Rysbroek was traveling far away.
A delightfully boyish young American came inquiring waggishly for his "best girl"; next moment I was given to understand that he meant his bride, who was ten times too good for him, with further trivialities to which the dressing-bell put a timely period. There was no sign of my Etonian when I went upstairs.
Aurora was discomfited, and did not listen to anything Christophe said. He went on talking good-humoredly. She replied absently, and was not far from being cross with him. Came a ring at the bell. It was Georges. Aurora was amazed. Christophe looked at her and laughed. She saw that he had been making fun of her, and laughed and blushed. He shook his finger at her waggishly.
But the boy was, and I took him in my buggy and drove off. I'd got as far as the Ox Road forks when I met Yancy " "What happened then? but a body don't need to ask! Looks like the law was all you had on your side!" and the squire glanced waggishly about the room. "I showed Yancy the order " "You lie, Dave Blount; you didn't!" said Yancy.
Mo, pointing waggishly to Doggie, warned the little girl against his depravity. "Mauvy, mauvy!" said he. "Qu'est-ce qu'il dit?" asked the child. "He's the idiot of the regiment, whom I have to look after and feed with pap," said Doggie, "and, being hungry, he is begging you not to detain me." "Mon Dieu!" cried the child.
"An investigation in which you helped," said Colwyn, with a smile. "I am afraid it would be stretching the fable of the mouse and the lion to suggest that I was able to help such a renowned criminal investigator as yourself," returned Sir Henry waggishly. "When Mr. Oakham learnt that you had been investigating this case he expressed a strong desire to see you."
Those people who knew the noble families whose union had been celebrated by such a profusion of grandees, fine equipages, and footmen, brass bands, brilliant toilets, and wedding favours, asked how it was that Lord Kew did not assist at Barnes Newcome's marriage; other persons in society inquired waggishly why Jack Belsize was not present to give Lady Clara away.
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