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"Now you are in the kitchen and sitting-room I've told you of, because it's both," said Gwen. "And here is Granny Marrable herself." "Give me hold of your hand, Granny. Because I can't see you, more's the pity! I shall hope to see you some day like people when they want you not to call. At present my looks don't flatter me. People think I'm humbugging when I say I can't see them. I can't!"
So long as we were in these latitudes, we had but little rest in our watch on deck at night; for, as the winds were light and variable, and we could not lose a breath, we were all the watch bracing the yards, and taking in and making sail, and ``humbugging'' with our flying kites.
That's meat and drink to us. It's the healthiest thing in the world in all respects, and particularly for the lungs. If you are one of those who want us to consume it, I differ from you. We are not going to wear the bottoms of our boilers out any faster than we wear 'em out now, for all the humbugging sentiment in Great Britain and Ireland. By way of 'going in' to the fullest extent, Mr.
It is written in an indifferent mood, as if he felt that he was humbugging us in his statement that he was the right man for such an office, that he tried hard to get it only as a matter of form which required that he should neglect no opportunity that came in his way. 'You may be right, Mr. Nyttleton, but I don't quite see the grounds of your reasoning.
Jack of the humbugging eyes, handsome, happy-go-lucky Jack O'Shaughnessy, had been what he called "in love" since the days when he wore pinafores and little round collars with frills at the edge, but he had never known what love meant until this winter evening, when at the vision of Sylvia's face his heart leapt with painful violence, and he stood still appalled by the strength of his own emotions.
I daresay I might have got him round with a little patience and humbugging. It's always a mistake to lose your temper and make enemies; there's no knowing what harm they may do ye. People like us oughtn't to throw away a chance, even with a chap like Warrigal. Besides, I knew it would vex Starlight, and for his sake I would have given a trifle it hadn't happened.
You cheat every body, yourself included. I've seen a deal of the world, but I never met your equal at humbugging. It's my belief you had rather lie than not." "Have you come here, you old, old beast, to tempt me to to pitch into you, and and knock your old head off?" said the baronet, with a poisonous look of hatred at the major.
A minute more and her mother and she were in the motor gliding through damp streets in the murky darkness. After a short silence Mrs. Mansfield said: "Well, Charmian, you escaped! Are you very thankful?" "Escaped!" said a rather plaintive voice from the left-hand corner of the car. "The dreaded Te Deum." "Is he a musician at all? I believe Max Elliot has been humbugging us."
"But that was in departing from their country." "We won't argue," the artist declared sulkily. "Argument is only disputing about definitions, and we should never agree. I don't expect you to think I'm right. As a matter of fact I have my doubts myself. You might at least allow me the satisfaction of humbugging myself if I am able." She regarded him sadly.
Ha, ha! That's why poor Dill had to have his brains spilled. I must go; you must go; we must all go to die.... The women look on, plucky, because that's the fashion now...." He gazed round questioningly. "Isn't it sad?" he asked softly. Then, in a fury once more, he cried: "Weren't they humbugging us?... Was I an assassin? Was I a swashbuckler? Didn't I suit her when I sat at the piano playing?
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