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The hinds were trudging homewards from the fields. A brisk little woman passed us by. She was seated across a donkey between a pair of glittering milk-cans; and, as she went, she kicked jauntily with her heels upon the donkey's side, and scattered shrill remarks among the wayfarers. It was notable that none of the tired men took the trouble to reply.
He piloted her skillfully; he jauntily suited his own to her skipping step; he lifted her with scrupulous politeness over obstacles; strutting beside her on crowded pavements, he made way for her with his swinging stick.
Following Edith and Macpherson, they ran along the quay. Already there was something unusual in progress. Loungers by the harbour, perceiving a disturbance, were running towards the scene of action. A solitary Italian policeman, swaggering jauntily over the paved roadway, was suddenly startled out of his self-complacency. "Caramba!" he shouted. Drawing his sabre, he broke into a run.
"Don't go back into assembly room with a face betraying as much as yours does," whispered Captain Jarvis, over his shoulder. "Thank you for the tip," Dick responded. When young Prescott stepped back into the general assembly room his face, though not all the color had returned to it, wore a smiling expression. He stepped jauntily, with his head well up, as he moved to his seat.
At that moment, a shout of surprise and laughter, together with an unusual commotion in the yard, arrested the attention of all in the court-room; and they mostly rushed to the door or windows to ascertain the cause, when they were amused to behold the young Indian, Tomah, driving into the yard, with his moose harnessed to a pung or sledge, of his own rigging up, on which -with reins and whip in hand -he sat as jauntily as a coachman, and almost with, the same ease, apparently, brought his strange steed to a stand before the door.
Minnie's face was not pleasant to see, for a coward detected at the moment of wrongdoing is not an object of delight. "Minnie Smellie, if ever I catch you singing that to the Simpsons again do you know what I'll do?" asked Rebecca in a tone of concentrated rage. "I don't know and I don't care," said Minnie jauntily, though her looks belied her.
The little sailor, however, carried himself as jauntily as though he were stepping out along a mere pleasure parade, and hummed an air as he marched. In ordinary moments I think his nature might be described as almost melancholy; it took times of stress like these to thoroughly brighten him.
"Done. I will write her exact language here on this piece of paper and then we will exchange copy." Harrington sat pleasantly amused, yet puzzled, while Dryden wrote and folded the paper. Then he proffered his note-book with nervous alacrity. "Read aloud until you come to the place," he said jauntily. Dryden scanned for a moment the memoranda, then looked up.
You know the saying about night always being blackest at the hour before the dawn? If we'd only all believe that and cheer up " He let himself out. As he walked down the Square he tried to stroll jauntily; probably Ann was watching. "I could do worse than live up to that advice myself," he thought. Then, "And so I will, by the Lord Harry."
The seconds had taken care to keep the locale from the knowledge of the public; especially as many who had come to know of the event at the Breakneck Club were eager to be present. The affair began an hour after sunrise. Neither Dyck nor Leonard Mallow slept at home the night before, but in separate taverns near Phoenix Park. Mallow came almost jauntily to the obscure spot.
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