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She had, he saw suddenly, a child in her arms that cried unceasingly. The uniformed man who had tried to hold her came plunging after her; his face was creased in clownish and cruel smiles. Lucas saw the thing stupidly; his mind prompted him to nothing; he stood where he was, empty of resource. He was directly in the flying woman's path, and she rushed at him as to a refuge.
But it is scarcely likely that they should be aware, as I chance to be, that the clownish insolent who has dared to wag his tongue against me, is the son of a Star-Chamber delinquent." The Letters-Patent. A slight reaction in Sir Giles's favour was produced by his speech, but Jocelyn quite regained his position with the company when he exclaimed "My father was misjudged.
Come, let me read this nice book you've brought me," she urged, much as she might have tried to divert one of her little sisters or brothers. "I'd ruther just set. I ain't much fur readin'. Jake Getz he says he's goin' to chase you to bed at ten and ten comes wonderful soon Sundays. Leave us just set." Tillie well understood that this was to endure Absalom's clownish wooing.
The most daring innovators, and the champions-until-death of the old cause, sat side by side. The still living merit of the oldest New England families, glowing yet after several generations, encountered the founders of families, fresh merit emerging and expanding the brows to a new breadth, and lighting a clownish face with sacred fire.
If we wished, we might see a political satire as well as musical. After a climax of the clownish mood we return to the Intermezzo melodies. The Finale begins in the buoyant spirit of the beginning and seems again to have a touch of Scotch in the jaunty answer. The whole subject is a group of phrases rather than a single melody.
The very devil himself seemed to have set his picked imps after me; for it was my habit, ordinarily, to be neither dirty as I was then, nor clownish as I must have appeared. To put it mildly, I was deeply embarrassed, and at a woman, too. Oh! the degradation of it. As I rose, I fancied that my ears caught the faintest tinkle of a laugh.
And they ruled and influenced the lives of nearly a quarter of mankind, these politicians, their clownish conflicts swayed the world, made mirth perhaps, made excitement, and permitted infinite misery.
He saw himself living the life of these people; renouncing everything that meant "the world" and "life" to him everything except Barbara; driving burros loaded with wood to town and tramping about its streets with a basket of pottery at his back; saw himself with painted face and nude, smeared body dancing the clownish antics of the Koshare; planting prayer sticks; sprinkling the sacred meal; taking part and pretending belief in all the heathen rites of the pueblo secret religion and then Barbara sprang out of the house, crying to her father in the Indian tongue, "Wait!
A peculiar tic, a convulsive twitch of the nose, would agitate his face from time to time, and it was this that completed his resemblance to a rabbit. His merriment was just as likely to find issue in a nervous, metallic, sonorous outburst as in a muffled, clownish guffaw.
Perhaps you have never thought of me as a man you would be at all likely to marry. Still, I have made it my business to come and ask you, and I thought I might better let you know my errand at once, instead of leaving you to guess it from any clownish efforts of mine to do the agreeable to you."
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