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The time passed. The two mice, careering wildly, scampered cheekily over his slippers. He had not moved a muscle. He did not want to move. He was not thinking of anything. It was easier so. There was no wrench of knowing anything. Then, from time to time, some other consciousness, working mechanically, flashed into sharp phrases. "What am I doing?"
Dubois strutted and spoke learnedly of how the part had been played in France, and he was pleased to trace by an analysis which was difficult to follow a resemblance between Kate and Madame Judic. The second act went equally well. And after seeing the ghosts she got a bouquet thrown to her, so cheekily did she sing the refrain: 'For a regiment of soldiers wouldn't make me afraid.
At the sight of Bob Thorp and the policeman he sprang to his feet at once. "Anything you want, gentlemen? Anything I can sell you?" he asked, impudently. "A nice scrubbing-brush or " "'Tis you needs the scrubbing-brush, by the looks on you," said Bob, cheekily. "And I want you," said the constable, sharply. "Want me?
Still he rejected this plan, and in the end decided himself to defend Klitzing regardless of consequences. If he challenged the fellows fearlessly and cheekily they would be sure to turn on him, and he would be able to defend himself. At any rate he could better stand a good hard blow than the clerk could. Evening came, and Sergeant Wiegandt went to his rendezvous as usual.
"Let me tickle him with my little toy here. Safety first, as these people always say." "Be quiet!" ordered Ledermann. "And you too, young fellow! If you try to scream, we will kill you." "Aw, quit your kiddn'!" said Porky cheekily. "What would I want to yell for? I don't want to get arrested any more than I am. I want to go home! tell you, how could I hear anything when I was asleep?
Soon she came, big and brilliant, out from the gloomy gully, in the inevitable fur-coat which he remembered so well, but which had begun now to look battered, and the velvet hat shoved on cheekily, like a man's wideawake. Her eyes and her teeth acclaimed him in a kindred smile, for which he felt the warmer. "Hallo, dear old thing!" she greeted him. "I thought you were lost."
"I'll run, man, run fast enough soon as you done talkin," replied the Cockney cheekily, hopping across the creek to the shelter of the far bank. "Be in Lewes afore you're back to the guv'nor, I'll lay. Ta-ta." He was away down the creek, running like a monkey, finger-tips touching the ground. Kit, thankful to tears, watched the sun on the man's ridged back, as he stole away.
She was, it might be said, deeply and irrevocably committed to these beliefs: they settled and explained everything, and no more need to think or worry. It was simply not to be endured that Henrietta Cooney should cheekily sit there and try to unsettle everything, pretending.... "But understand me, Cally," Henrietta was saying, with provoking calm. "Of course I didn't like that letter a bit.
'I have talked very boldly to you, Helena said 'cheekily, I fancy some people would call it; but I do so hate misunderstandings, and having others and myself made uncomfortable, and I do so prefer my happiness to my dignity! You see, I hadn't much of a mother's care, and I am a sort of wild-growth, and you must make allowance for me and forgive me, and take me for what I am.
He wore grey trousers, heavy boots, and a dark cut-away coat, up the back of which a line of caked mud had deposited itself. On his head was a bowler hat. "How do, Jos?" cried a couple of boys, cheekily. And then there were a few adult greetings of respect. It was the hero, in haste. "Out of it, there!" he warned impeders, between his teeth, and plugged on with bent head.
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