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"'The gad-about is a vain thing and a mighty cause for stumblin'. You mind that, an' take better care hencefarrard to set a right example to other maids an' not lead 'em wrong. Theer shan't be no froward liver under this roof, Joan Tregenza, an' you, as be my awn darter's the last I'd count to find wanderin'." She lied as to particulars.
Also learnin' to cook 'gainst the time you'm a wife an' the mother o' childern, if God so wills. But this ban't no right way o' life for any wan, gentle or simple, so mend it. A gad-about, lazy female's hell-meat in any station. Theer's enough of 'em as 'tis, wi'in the edge o' Carnwall tu. What was you doin' this marnin'? Mother sez 'er heard you stirrin' 'fore the birds."
He has six short legs, which he well knows how to use; he is a gad-about, a trot-about. In the adult state, the male is correctly garbed in wing-cases, like the true Beetle that he is.
"You done well not to 'ave the big gal. I will say that for ye. She's a gad-about grinny, she is, if ever was. A gad-about grinny. Mucked up my mushroom bed to rights, she did, and I 'aven't forgot it. Got the feet of a centipede, she 'as ll over everything and neither with your leave nor by your leave. Like a stray 'en in a pea patch. Cluck! cluck! Trying to laugh it off.
The speed of the fastest steamer afloat is poor compared to his. And he is a great gad-about, and roams far and wide in the oceans, and visits the shores of all of them, ultimately, in the course of his restless excursions. I have a tale to tell now, which has not as yet been in print.
I think my daughter-in-law has; she is a great gad-about, she sees every one." At this the younger lady came rustling forward, pinching in a very slender waist, and casting idly preoccupied glances over the front of her dress, which was apparently designed for a ball. She was, in a singular way, at once ugly and pretty; she had protuberant eyes, and lips strangely red.
"Go to your baby-faced Violet," cries the Tulip, with a toss of her haughty head. "You are just fitted for each other." And when I return to the Lily, she tells me that she cannot trust me. She has watched me with those others. She knows me for a gad-about. Her gentle face is full of pain. So I must live unloved merely because I love too much. My wonder is that young men ever marry.
"If I did take 'e, you'd be a gude an' faithful husband, Billy, not a gad-about?" "Cut my legs off if I go gaddin' further than to do your errands." "An' you'll keep these here buzzin' parties off me? Cuss 'em! They make my life a burden." "Doan't fear that. I'll larn 'em!" "Theer 's awnly wan I can bide of the whole lot an' that's my awn nephew, Clem Hicks.
Raymond was quickly assuming the charms of ownership. "She always has been," snapped Mrs. Tweksbury, "an unconscious offering. Where is her gad-about sister?" "I forget out West somewhere, I believe." "What is she doing?" "The Lord knows. I got a very disagreeable impression of her. I didn't do much questioning Nancy was on the defensive. She adores her sister." "Bless the child!
It was all in good humour, and Master Hall walked out to the city gate to speed his gad-about or pious wife, whichever he might call her, on her way, apparently quite content to let her go on her pilgrimages for the summer quarter. She rode a stout mule, and was attended by two sturdy varlets quite sufficient guards for pilgrims, who were not supposed to carry any valuables.
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