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Cartoonists and reporters leaped upon the theme with the avidity of the true-blue interviewer. Paris, where to be ridiculed is to be killed in public with the most ignominious of deaths, reacted as only the French temperament can react. The wits of the salons crackled, the bourgeoisie chortled, the proletariat roared. The Elixir of Life had been discovered and it was excellent sport.
"I guess that forfeit money's mine," he said in his laconic way. "No use running that horse. I could beat him afoot." This was but the beginning. Others began to banter and jeer Bud, Jeff's crowd taunting him with malicious glee. The singin' kid was going to have some of the swelling taken out of his head, they chortled.
Just move it someplace else and let the vines and creepers grow over it for a few days." "Didn't the crew come back looking for it?" asked Loring. "Did they?" chortled Shinny. "I'll say they did! Almost drove them poor fellers crazy. I guess they searched for that old wagon for three months before giving up." "And and you mean it's still there and in good condition?" asked Loring.
"Thanks, but I'm only staying a jiff. Got to make another call and it's nearly noon now. Would you mind if I leave the door open? The smoke's pretty thick." "Hit you with an umbrella, eh?" chortled the lawyer with jovial skepticism as he tilted back in his swivel chair. "Deduction: It had a knob on the end of it! Sentence: Thirty days in the woods!" and Mr.
She felt emboldened to remark, with an air of ease: "Oh, Saunders, don't forget to lay the spoons when you serve the demi-tasses." Mr. Brown laughed. "Oh, say!" he chortled, "you ARE funny when you hand out that highfalutin stuff!" No; he surely hadn't meant admiration for her savoir-faire; yet, for some reason, Missy didn't feel disappointed.
"If they answer back, Veronica, that will show they are cursed with an argumentative temperament which must be rooted out at any cost," I agreed; "and if they don't say anything, that will prove them possessed of a surly disposition which must be checked at once, before it develops into a vice." "And whatever we do to them we will tell them it's for their own good," Veronica chortled.
There was an exclamation from the dark-eyed man. "Just what I was telling Jack this morning," he chortled. "Buy a farm, for farming purposes only, from some old lady. Pay her a good price, but get your land in the oil section. Old lady happy, we strike oil, sell out to big company, everybody happy. Simple, after all. Good schemes always are." Jack Fluss grunted derisively.
Har!" and he fairly choked, and for days and weeks and months he laughed, but he never told. He merely chortled at his desk, and if any one asked him what he was laughing about, even Dick, he would reply, "Oh, something a joke I played on a fellow once." If Dick ever guessed he never indicated as much. But that lost romance! That faded dream!
"Well, I must admit there's one thing horsey enough about you you always smell of manure, these days." Wounded and on the defensive, Missy tried to make her tone chilly. "I wish you wouldn't be so indelicate, Aunt Nettie," she said. But Aunt Nettie wasn't abashed. "A horsewoman!" she chortled again. "I suppose Missy sees herself riding to hounds!
"Who says he won't?" snapped Walky Dexter, who heard the selectman's statement. "You ax the Elder or old Bill Jones," chortled Moore. "Come now! what do you mean by that?" demanded Mr. Massey, in whose store the conversation took place. "Ax 'em," said Mr. Moore again. "They've got it fixed up to fire Mr. Haley at the end of this term." "Nothin' like bein' warned in time," said Walky Dexter.
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