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"I would rather be a Tabby Catt than a cross-eyed, red-headed chimpanzee." Pushing him violently from her, she turned and fled through the wide puddle and up the slope toward home, never hearing the loud splash behind her and the mingled screams and laughter, and not aware that the debonair Jerome with the blood spurting from his nose had lost his balance and toppled into the muddy water.

The baptism is set forth in this wise: "Here Jesus enters the waters of Jordan, all naked, and Saint John takes some of the water in his hand and throws it on the head of Jesus." Saint John says: "Sir, you now baptized are, As it suits my simple skill, Not the lofty rank you fill; Unmeet for such great service I; Yet my God, so debonair, All that's wanting will supply."

It will doubtless give us a good idea of the earnest and solemn spirit of that age of religious awakening. "So great a change from a free, debonair, and courtly sort of behavior, which we had formerly found there, into so strict a gravity as they now received us with, did not a little amuse us, and disappointed our expectations of such a pleasant visit as we had promised ourselves.

Then a debonair recklessness had been the outstanding note, but now there was something ribald and wicked in him. "Since y'u put it as a question, common politeness demands an answer. Ned Bannister is my name." "You are the terror of this country?" "I shan't be a terror to y'u, ma'am, if I can help it," he smiled. "But you are the man they call the king?" "I have that honor."

Like a thing of living, pulsing fire it rolled before their eyes a magnificent diamond necklace, of wondrous beauty, gleaming and scintillating as the light rays shot back from a thousand facets. For a moment, both men gazed at it without a word. "Little surprise for my wife," volunteered Markel, with a debonair wave of his pudgy hand, and trying to make his voice sound careless.

Pardon me one moment, there is a wrinkle in your left stocking, silk stockings are very apt to " But here the legs of the Gentleman-in-Powder planted themselves quivering on the threshold to announce: "Viscount Devenham!" He still carried his arm in a sling, but, excepting this, the Viscount was himself again, Bright-eyed, smiling and debonair.

Forty-five of them against a hundred and fifty, and Captain Haraden, debonair, unruffled, walking to and fro with a leisurely demeanor, remarking that although the Achilles appeared to be superior in force, "he had no doubt they would beat her if they were firm and steady and did not throw away their fire."

He was fleeing from a kingdom where he had expected to rule; he had to meet the laughter of that infernal town of Paris; he had to face, at some time, Monsieur Voltaire; but he was as cool, as smiling, as debonair, as ever I saw him. He merely said to us: "General Lacy is a man of his word. We may believe all he says.

So full of power, yet blithe and debonair, Rallying his friends with pleasant banter gay, Or half a-dream chaunting with jaunty air Great words of Goethe, catch of Béranger, We see the banter sparkle in his prose, But knew not then the undertone that flows So calmly sad, through all his stately lay."

They were merry days for all of us; balls and routs, and parties on the river, the King so handsome and debonair, and the world so bright with sunshine and happiness. Youth, my dear, is a great thing; what is there to compare with it? "'But I am losing time. I must hasten to the ball at the Duchess's. 'Tis hardly fair, this terrible silence they have imposed upon me.