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My gymnastic-performing imp vanished through the bars. In an incredibly short space of time he reappeared, clothed but, alas! I cannot tell how the imp was clothed, except to say that Emily being a tall, woman and the imp but a well-grown boy of ten, the effect was strangely voluminous and oriental.
It might have been said that there was a want of capability for passion in her face, had it not been for the well-marked dimple in her little chin, that soft couch in which one may be always sure, when one sees it, that some little imp of Love lies hidden. It has already been said that Mary Lowther was tall, taller than common.
Under the form of religion I aroused the fears and commanded the submission of mortals; and our imp now reigns on earth in the place of Love, under the form of Hymen. Pluto smiled grimly, and smote his thigh in triumph. 'Well conceited, well executed, daughter of Night.
Jacky rose, gasped, and ran away, glancing over his shoulder with a look of alarm. This little piece of by-play was not observed by any one but Flora, who exchanged a bright glance and a smile with her brother. The imp was quelled he had met his match!
"Of what, you devil's imp; but I know she's drinking she's drunk, you young candidate for perdition?" "I'm not an ould one, sir, any how; as to Miss Fuzzle, sir, she bid me say, that she's doin' herself the pleasure of drinkin' your health" "Ha, ha, ha! Oh, if I were near her that's all! drinking my health! She's tipsy, the she scoundrel, she never sends me that message unless when she's tipsy"
Call up Johnny Caruthers and let him bring back the Imp and Miss Mathewson. I can't be spared long enough to go myself, so take her this note to tell her what to bring. Get busy, now." He handed Macauley a hasty scrawl on a prescription blank, and smiled at the discomfited faces of his two friends showing plainly in the lights which streamed from the house.
There was always an adventurer somewhere in each generation and however far he wandered, he came back to Green Gardens to bring his treasures home. When I was a yellow-headed imp of Satan, hiding my marbles in the lacquer chest, I used to swear that when I grew up I would bring home the finest treasure of all, if I had to search the world from end to end.
Her curiosity got the better of her dislike of being praised for what to her was a simple duty, and she added, "Well, what did he say?" "Oh, that you and Rivers were like angels gone astray in the strange country called earth; and then that imp of a boy, John, who says queer things, said that it was like a bit of verse Rivers had read to him. He knew it too. I liked it and got him to write it out.
After a moment, however, she shook her head positively and exclaimed, "I don't believe a word of it." "She's going to swear to it." "Her oath would be no better than her word " "Good Lord!" the colonel cried, testily. "Has this young imp completely hypnotized you women?
That imp of hell can hate, and it was me he hated, eh? Y'see, I've heard how he tracked me. I hear most things doing in Barnriff. Then you did your fool stunt sending Jim out to warn me. He got me clear, and and I hate him worse for it; but not so bad as I hate you now. I see how it was done. I'm no fool. Jim did it for you, and I guess you'll pay his price. That's how you're both thinking.
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