It was with rather heavy hearts that the party set off, but Tom's spirits could not long stay clouded, and the scientist was so good-natured about the affair and seemed so eager to do the utmost to render Beecher's
trick void, that the others fell into a lighter mood, and went on more cheerfully, though the way was rough and the packs heavy.
If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will ratify it; but it is only a
trick. March on, destroy the Russian army....
He had fought more fights, knew how to meet more
tricks and methods, and had more
tricks himself, while his own method was scarcely to be improved upon.
Camacho and those of his following, therefore, being consoled and pacified, those on Basilio's side were appeased; and the rich Camacho, to show that he felt no resentment for the
trick, and did not care about it, desired the festival to go on just as if he were married in reality.
And to the end of the day, Bob continued to be up to one
trick or another; after passing a dozen automobiles on the way into Oakland, suddenly electing to go mad with fright at a most ordinary little runabout.
None of the
tricks that he was ever eager to do for Steward, would Michael do for Kwaque, despite the fact that Kwaque had no touch of meanness or viciousness in him.
There was enough material there to enable him to prepare several new
tricks which he had learned from some of the jugglers in the circus, and he had passed part of the night in getting them ready.
"It's a little tiresome to walk backward, but that is the only way to pass this part of the road, which has a
trick of sliding back and carrying with it anyone who is walking upon it."
Things that would have made the frame of a less clever man seemed
tricks in his hands.
And I promised him that, if he let me act, without disturbing me by shouting and walking up and down, I would discover the
trick of the door in less than an hour's time.
There were no signs of Danny, who was evidently playing the
trick to the limit.
Lewis Carroll absolutely conquered the difficulties, but I am not sure that anyone after him until Hugh Lofting has really managed the
trick; even in such a masterpiece as "The Wind in the Willows" we are not quite convinced.