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His small round eyes became abstracted, his mouth remained partly open, even his fresh color slightly paled. "You seem to have been takin' stock of this yer man, Rosey," he said, with a faint attempt at archness; "if he warn't ez old ez a crow, for all his young feathers, I'd think he was makin' up to you."
She gracefully raised her head, seemed to find new life in the young man's gaze, and held out her hand as if to renew the alliance. "You thought I cared very much for dignities?" said she with keen archness. "I have no titles to offer my wife," he replied, in a half-sportive, half-serious tone.
But then she had that obvious wish to oblige, and that real and natural good-breeding depending on, good sense and good humour, which, joined to a considerable degree of archness and liveliness of manner, rendered her behaviour acceptable to all with whom she was called upon to associate.
Yes, Philip she had called him in her childhood, and the name had been carried on into her girlhood he had always been Philip to her. "No, girls don't think like that, and they don't do big things," she replied. "When I polish the pans" she laughed "and when I scour my buckles, I just think of pans and buckles." She tossed up her fingers lightly, with a perfect charm of archness.
It poked up its little concealed head, did this question, when the bride said later to me, with immense archness: "How any gentleman can help falling just daid in love with that lovely young girl at the Exchange, I don't see!" "But I haven't helped it!" I immediately exclaimed. "Oh!" declared the bride with unerring perception, "that just shows he hasn't been smitten at all!
"And you, Fluella?" persisted the saucy querist, turning to the blushing girl. "He has not asked me yet," she quickly replied, with a look in which maiden pride, archness, and unuttered happiness, were charmingly blended. "If he should, and you should command me" "Command? command! Now, that is a good one, Fluella," returned the laughing foster-father.
"We were about to sound the horn, Mademoiselle," he said, smiling. "The horn, Monsieur?" she exclaimed, opening her eyes in wonder, and staring at him with the prettiest face of astonishment. "Yes, Mademoiselle; to awaken the sleeping princess," he rejoined. "But I see that she is already awake." Through the innocence of her eyes flashed a sudden gleam of archness.
She was distressed about some shares she held in a traction company and Bert was able to be of real service to her, taking a careful memorandum, and promising to see her about it in a day. "For I expect we'll see you round here in a day or two," she said with simple archness. She was well used to the demands of Nancy's beaux. Nancy looked particularly innocent and expectant at this, "Perhaps Mr.
"Anybody might be excused for looking anyhow, at such a time," observed Cope, fending off the intrusion of a new set of considerations; "and in such a sudden stir. I hope nobody noticed how I looked!" "Well, you were noticeable," declared Medora, with some archness. She had been conscious enough of his spare waist, his sinewy arms, his swelling chest.
The auburn ringlets of Katy Dare were as glossy as ever; her blue eyes had still the charming archness which had made me love her from the first. Indeed her demeanor toward me had been full of such winning sweetness that it made me her captive; and I now pressed the little hand, and looked into the pretty blushing face with the sentiment which I should have experienced toward some favorite niece.
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