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The air was stifling; the stone bench glittered in the sunlight; the meadow exhaled to heaven those impish vapors which dance and dart above the herbage like silvery dust; but Genevieve seemed not to feel this all-consuming heat. The colonel pressed the hand of the doctor violently in his own. Tears rolled from his eyes along his manly cheeks, and fell to the earth at the feet of his Stephanie.
It seemed to her to wear a triumphant impish look, but this vanished as he advanced to meet her, relieved her of the neat black handbag which she always carried with her on her visits, and suggested gravely that she should at once go upstairs and see her patient. "He's quieter now," he said. "The mere news that you were coming had a soothing effect. Let me show you the way."
"Good afternoon," he greeted. "Dr. von Heydenreich gave me quite a favorable account of you as far as it went. He might have included a few more data and made it more so.... Won't you sit down?" The woman laid her handbag on the desk and took the visitor's chair, impish mirth sparking in her eyes. "He probably omitted mentioning that the D. is for Doris," she suggested.
The whole scene seemed to dance around him;-the impish figures in the lake, or upon its bank, assumed forms yet more fantastic; the horses looked like monsters of the deep; the hounds like wolves and ferocious beasts; the branches of the trees writhed and shot forward like hissing serpents; and though this effect speedily passed off, it left behind it a wild and maddening feeling of excitement.
The ear was very attentive even to the fluttering down of the blighted leaf, or the thin squeak of the bee in the straitened calyx, or the faint impish conferrings of the moisture exuding suddenly from somewhere under the bank.
"Why," said Si, "I supposed that they was too tired to do anything but lay down and go to sleep. What'd they do?" "Better ask what they didn't do," replied the Orderly. "They done everything that a passel o' impish school boys could think of, and what they couldn't think of them smart Alecks down in the company put 'em up to. I'm going to put some o' them smarties through a course o' sprouts.
If Janet had known how to get herself away, she would have gone without asking for anything. Then a sound came from the lean-to behind the house. "S-s-h. I hear the devil grunting like a pig," muttered Granny, looking very impish. But Janet smiled a little contemptuously. She knew it was a pig and no devil. Granny Thomas was only an old fraud. Her awe passed away and left her cool Sparhallow.
And then he added in a lowered voice, grinning with the impish delight of an overgrown boy who is playing a trick: "Thought I'd better go through the motions of introducing you people, so it would look as if you'd just met for the first time." And with that he was gone. Maggie had risen galvanically. For the moment she could only stare. Then she got out his name. "Larry!" she whispered.
"Order! or no spelling-match." The alternative was awful enough to quiet even the impish Hughie, who knew the tone carried no idle threat, and who loved a spelling-match with all the ardor of his little fighting soul.
Then came a strange sound from the cabin, and for one brief instant a dark, impish face showed itself at the broken window. Then the face disappeared and a stone came whizzing toward the lads' heads. They ducked just in time, or one or the other might have been seriously hurt. "Let's get out -no use of staying here to be a target!" cried Whopper, who was growing nervous.
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