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This last remark was addressed to the motive power of his jaunty red wagon. In obedience the wheels began to revolve faster. But press onward as he would, supper-time found the professor so strangely shorn still some distance from the hills. "That storm's coming right up, too," he said to himself over his after-supper pipe; "well, no help for it. I guess we'll have to push on."
Your sister I knew well, and I have a clear recollection of your father. I believe and hope you were the young lady in the black silk apron. Do you know I rather dreaded reading your book! I knew that with you I should be safe from the cobweb-spinning of our modern subjective novelists and the jaunty vulgarity of our "funny philosophers" the Dickens sort, who have tired us out.
I I seem to f-feel unusually young. Do I look it? Have I changed? W-watch me while I walk across the room." Mr. Carr arose with a frightened glance at Yates, put on his hat, and fairly pranced across the room. "Great Heavens!" he faltered; "my hat's on one side and my walk is distinctly jaunty! Do you notice it, Yates?" "I'm afraid I do, Mr. Carr." "This this is infamous!" gasped Mr. Carr.
We've had five miles of `Il Trovatore' now. They always make me feel jaunty. Are you comfy, and not too tired?" "I'm not tired at all. I was just wondering how people can ever die. Why did you remind me of the mummy? Life seems the strongest and most indestructible thing in the world.
They bade the lady good morning, as it was 2 a.m., and they were escorted upstairs to a moderately-furnished room with an iron bed, wooden washstand, wardrobe, two chairs, and canvased floor. "Well, do you think it'll do?" asked the host. "Yes," replied James, in a jaunty way. "We've slept in many a worse place than this, Shorty, haven't we? See that we're called at six in the morning, gov'nor."
He wondered that she did not notice him: his red and white blazer and jaunty cap made him a somewhat conspicuous object in this quiet country place; and she must have heard the long strokes of his oars. But she remained silent, apparently examining the fastenings of the boat; absorbed and tranquil, with a happy smile upon her lips.
Here and there he passed companions in poverty, but their rags were worse than his, their faces more haggard. Never did he feel more like the gentleman than when he saw what he could be if he were not one. Something jaunty beneath his brow-beaten spirits told him that he was to have work, that his mission would be productive of the result so long desired.
Callender was a jaunty old man, tall, of commanding presence and smart clothes. His white mustache was the epitome of close-cropped neatness. When he lost money at poker his brown eyes held exactly the same twinkle as when he won, and it was current among the young men that he had played greatly in his day great games for great stakes.
"Some of the hands would like to see you for half a jiff, Mr. Wade," said he. "Will you come along, if you please?" There was a good deal of easy swagger about Perry, as there is always in boys and men whose business is to watch the lunging of steam-engines. Wade followed him. Perry led the way with a jaunty air that said, "Room here! Out of the way, you lubberly bits of cast-iron!
"Well I shall come and fetch you," said Maud, covering her surprise and mortification by a jaunty air that would not confess defeat. "And so shall I," said Mr Mountchesney. "And so shall I," whispered Lord Milford lingering a little behind.
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