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But the same idea that occurred to you just now, that Paolina might not have liked to see me driving with La Bianca, has suggested itself to some other wiseacre, I beg your pardon, Manutoli, and it seems that an absurd notion a notion the monstrous absurdity of which is a matter of amazement to me has been engendered that my poor Paolina may have been the perpetrator of the crime. The idea!
Had there been any doubt in the minds of any such wiseacre, either regarding their authenticity or their quality, he had only to listen to Oliver's presentation of his father and friend and to hear Richard say, in his most courteous manner and in his most winning voice: "I have never been more honored, sir. It was more than kind of you to wish me to come.
The wiseacre was not absent, of course, and agitators had been at work for some time endeavouring to jaundice the minds of the people half-breeds, it was said, from Edmonton, who had been vitiated by contact with a low class of white men there and, therefore, nothing was as yet positively known as to the temper and views of the Indians.
"Oh, I don't believe either of you! You two think that I am simple enough to believe any absurdity you choose to tell me. Beulah, what is Utopia?" "Just what your uncle told you. More used Greek words which signified nothing, in order to veil the satire." "Oh, a satire! Now, what is the reason you could not say it was a satire, you wiseacre?"
Cranly came out through the door of the entrance hall, his hat thrust back on the nape of his neck and picking his teeth with care. And here's the wiseacre, said Temple. Do you know that about the Forsters? He paused for an answer. Cranly dislodged a figseed from his teeth on the point of his rude toothpick and gazed at it intently.
"Now don't ask, `Is it not your own fault? with that wiseacre look of yours," said John Skyd, testily tapping the bowl of his pipe on a stone preparatory to refilling it.
The mere sight of the small wiseacre had a comforting effect upon her. Her spirits began to rise, and she so far recovered herself as to be able to look matters in the face more cheerfully. There was so much to talk about, and so many questions to ask, that it would have been impossible to remain dejected and uninterested.
Cohn's bewilderment increased with every letter. The boy was sleeping in sodden trenches, sometimes without blankets; and instead of grumbling at that, his one grievance was that the regiment was not getting to the front. Heat and frost, hurricane and dust-storm nothing came amiss. And he described himself as stronger than ever, and poured scorn on the medical wiseacre who had tried to refuse him.
That I am no wiseacre is pretty well known. Oh! I have one annoyance there is only a single bed in our lodgings, so mamma may easily imagine that I get no rest beside papa. I rejoice at the thoughts of a new lodging. I have just finished sketching St. Peter with his keys, St. Paul with his sword, and St. Luke with my sister, &c., &c. I had the honor of kissing St.
"I warrant," said a wiseacre, contracting the brown leather of his brow in suspicious wrinkles, "some scalawag is doing this!" Yes, it could not be otherwise: there was somebody setting fires!
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