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Na-che smiled, showing strong white teeth. "You feel sick from the saddle, eh, Jonas?" "Don't you worry about that, woman! I'll show you I'm as good as any Indian buck that ever lived!" Na-che grunted incredulously, but sat down beside Jonas nevertheless. In spite of the gibes, supper was ready eventually and was devoured with approval.
But the daughter of the noble and the daughter of the bourgeoisie fair game!" Sometimes there enters a man's head what might be called a sick idea; when the vitality is at low ebb and the future holds nothing. Thus there was a grim and sick idea behind Gregor's gibes. It was in his mind to die. All the things he had loved had been destroyed. So then, to goad this madman into a physical frenzy.
She murmured her gratitude. "Won't mind, will you, if I bring in anything on my hip? Tea's mighty weak for a growing boy." They all laughed, and as she and Claybrook made their way to the elevator, the Thompsons stood in the hall calling gibes and parting injunctions after them. "Great old scout," commented Claybrook as they descended to the ground floor. "Sure been a good friend to me."
"We'll be satisfied." "I shan't be!" Mellicent shook her head again merrily. "I shan't be satisfied with anything but to sit it out with Mr. Smith. Thank you, Mr. Smith," she bowed, as she took his promptly offered arm. And Mr. Smith bore her away followed by the despairing groans of the two disappointed youths and the taunting gibes of their companions. "There!
Their tone of pity cut him, and left him raw to the gibes of his opponents. The fact that an honorable, honest man could have enemies in his own party was borne in upon him with merciless force. What had he done that men should yell in hell-like ferocity of glee over his defeat? This defeat cut closer into the Judge's life than anything that had come to him since the death of his son.
They were fat or thin, plain or passably good-looking; they were all hideously poor, and in their heads they had the echo of the gibes their menfolk had cast at them, when, returning with empty pockets, they had boasted of great conquests.
The jokes and gibes of the awakened crew sounded anything but sweet in our ears, and even the two Italians climbed up on the rail and laughed down at us long and maliciously. "That's all right," Charley said in a low voice, which I only could hear. "I'm mighty glad it's not us that's laughing first. We'll save our laugh to the end, eh, lad?"
His gibes at Cameron's awkwardness in the various operations on the farm, his readiness to seize every opportunity for ridicule, his skill at creating awkward situations, all these sensibly increased the wear on Cameron's spirit.
Encouraged by these words of the monk and the smiles and praises of the Queen, Alfred made rapid progress, which, oddly enough, grew quicker still from the way in which Bald and his brothers ridiculed him and laughed at his attempts, for their gibes angered him, but only made him work the harder, and with results which Swythe told the Queen were wonderful.
The latter and his allies bantered and badgered the old Doctor to their hearts' content. Rendered desperate at length by their merciless gibes, the Doctor, taking from his vest pocket a five-dollar bill one I had loaned him an hour before with which to pay a couple of weeks' boards he offered to bet the full amount that he could spell the word correctly.
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