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When Media ate slowly, Borabolla took him to task, bidding him dispatch his viands more speedily. Whereupon said Media "But Borabolla, my round fellow, that would abridge the pleasure." "Not at all, my dear demi-god; do like me: eat fast and eat long." In the middle of the feast, a huge skin of wine was brought in.
Whereupon the storekeeper turned hastily back into his shop, leaving Barney Custer of Beatrice, Nebraska, U.S.A., to wonder if all the inhabitants of Lutha were afflicted with a mental disorder similar to that of the unfortunate ruler. "I don't wonder," soliloquized the young man, "that he advised me to shave off this ridiculous crop of alfalfa.
Alvarado nodded and smiled. "Good! What would this world be without sentiment? It loves a lover. I like your spirit and I hope soon to have the pleasure of again seeing you and meeting your wife." O'Reilly flushed and stammered, whereupon the good Cuban patted him on the shoulder. "Come and see me when you get back, and bring me news of Tomas. Now, adios, compadre." "Adios, senor!
One such the Colonel accosted, asking what was wrong. The man looked up, looked down and muttered unintelligibly, whereupon the Sister spoke. "He believes that every one thinks him a spy," she explained, and touched the man's bowed head with a hand as gentle as her voice.
Lady Constance, by a look, had made her aware that she was considered intrusive, whereupon she had first stared Lady Constance out of countenance, and then deliberately scanned her work with an expression which conveyed a low opinion of its merit. Having thus revenged herself, she stood looking uneasily at the door for a minute, and at last wandered away into the adjoining gallery.
"Oh!" questioned the son; "but are naughty things made like that?" "Ay," returned the father. Whereupon the son: "I know not," he said, "what you say, nor why they should be naughty things: for my part I have as yet seen nought that seemed to me so fair and delectable. They are fairer than the painted angels that you have so often shewn me.
Leaving his horse in charge of his attendant, he of the silver buttons hastened on to the church door, where an armed sentry demanded his name. "Diurbanu," was the reply, whereupon he was admitted. The interior of the church was very dark. Two wax tapers, indeed, burned on the altar, but they flickered and flared so in the wind as to furnish a very insufficient light.
So we manned our boats with some 120 men and rowed towards the shore; whereto when we approched the inhabitants that were assembled at the landing place, put foorth a flag of truce, whereupon we also did the like.
Its situation, too, is fine, far retired from the public road, and attainable by a winding carriage-drive; standing amid fertile fields, and with large trees in the vicinity. There is also a beautiful view from the mansion, adown the Kennebec. Beneath some of the large trees we saw the remains of circular seats, whereupon the family used to sit before the former house was burned down.
She could not help shouting: "Come, I say, it's you who've run through my ten thousand francs. It's a dirty trick, I tell you!" But he did not stop to discuss matters further, for he dealt her a random box on the ear across the table, remarking as he did so: "Let's have that again!" She let him have it again despite his blow. Whereupon he fell upon her and kicked and cuffed her heartily.
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