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Several times she surprised herself in an interesting pursuit of the story; abominably cold, abominably interested. She fell upon a review of small duties of the day, to get relief; and among them a device for spiriting away her aunt from the table where Mrs. Lawrence wished to meet Lord Ormont. It sprang up to her call like an imp of the burning pit. She saw it ingenious and of natural aspect.
Adams, the other day, how she made that oyster broth she had for first course, the day Polly gave her dinner. She thought the lumps were oysters. "That's all for this time. "P.S. I entirely forgot to send my love to Jessie." "Saucy boy!" exclaimed Jessie, laughing. "Isn't he an imp?" said Katharine, as she folded the letter.
Scorning reply, he drew his cutlass, and setting it between his teeth in most approved pirate fashion, sat, pistol in hand, frowning terrifically at creation in general. "Starboard your helm starboard!" he cried, removing his weapon for the purpose. "Starboard it is!" I answered. "Clear away for action!" growled the Imp. "Double-shot the cannonades, and bo'sun, pipe all hands to quarters."
Often as she had seen the two drive away together it seemed to her to-day that she looked at them with new eyes. Just as Amy set out the closed hand-bags, with a box and a bundle beside them, and donned hat and driving-coat, the Green Imp came rushing up the road and stopped in front of the house.
"Oh, do be quiet!" she said, and laid her hand upon my lips, which I immediately imprisoned there, but for a moment only; the next it was snatched away as there came the unmistakable sound of some one approaching. "Come along, Auntie Lisbeth," whispered the Imp, "fear not, we'll rescue you."
"You are your sly mother's own darling imp," growled Braun, bringing out his pocketbook. "She was the devil's own, too, before she got old and lost her good looks," he sighed. "Tell me," said he, selecting a note with grave deliberation, "how much did Clayton deposit to-day?" "Only thirty-eight thousand," contemptuously answered the boy, as he clutched the note now held out to him.
"What shall we do?" whispered Mina. "Are you going to bed, Mason?" "Not me, ma'am. Why, I don't know what mayn't happen before the morning!" He shook his head in humorous commentary on those he had served. "But there's no call for you to sit up, ma'am." "I'll thank you to mind your own business, Mason," said the Imp indignantly. "It would be most most improper if I didn't sit up.
One day in he walks, for all the world as if the show belonged to him, with a young imp of a girl on his arm, and down they sits at one of the tables. "Garsong," he calls out, "what's the menoo to-day?" "The menoo to-day," I says, "is that you get outside 'fore I clip you over the ear, and that you take that back and put it where you found it;" meaning o' course, the kid.
But Raiko, well or ill, always slept with his trusty sword under his pillow, and pretending to be greatly afraid, and to cower under the bed-clothes, the kozo grew bolder and bolder. When the imp was near the bed, Raiko drew his blade, and cut the oni across his huge double nose. This made the demon howl, and he ran away, leaving tracks of blood.
The water gets cold after the second, so it's a great thing to be first, if you can." "And there are such amusing contretemps!" said Maud, the good-natured. "There seems to be a special imp of mischief abroad at these times, for something is bound to go wrong.
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