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Her wild, varying moods kept him constantly on the qui vive, and he would say in confidence to one of his intimate cronies: "The point is, Hal, she is such a spicy, piquant contrast to the insipid society girls, who have no more individuality than fashion blocks in Broadway windows." He liked the kittenish young creature all the more because her repartee was often a little cutting.
But the hostess, instead of calling for the police, gushed, "So glad you could come!" combining a kittenish mechanical smile for him with a glance over his shoulder at the temporary butler. "I want you to meet Miss Moeller, Mr. uh Mr " "I knew you'd forget it!" Carl was brotherly and protecting in his manner. "Ericson, Oscar Ericson." "Oh, of course. How stupid of me!
Miss Ann had evidently passed the dead-line of middle age, and had given up the fight, and was fast becoming a very prim and very proper old lady, but Miss Sarah, being out of range, could still smile, and nod her head, and shake her curls, and laugh little, hollow, girlish laughs, and otherwise disport herself in a light and kittenish way, after the manner of her day and age.
Whatever influences may have been at work among those congregated at the Hall during the half-hour or so occupied by afternoon tea, no sign appeared upon the surface. Molly as usual led the chorus of laughter. Hilda smiled her sweet "kittenish" smile.
It was done with a peculiar curving of the neck, a reassuring wag of the tail, a glance toward the coffee-room, and a few frolicsome, kittenish jumps, these last plainly indicating that as for himself the occasion was one of great hilarity, with absolutely no cause in it for anxiety.
I don't know how to hide what I feel." As he spoke he kept glancing with the flirtatiousness of a handsome youth at Sonya and the young lady visitor. The little kitten, feasting her eyes on him, seemed ready at any moment to start her gambols again and display her kittenish nature. "All right, all right!" said the old count. "He always flares up!
"She has added years to your life; the gay flitting-about Sophy, with her pretty kittenish ways and harmless claws, has been thrust in a sack and drowned!" "Well, I do think you might have given her Christian burial," protested Sophy with a laugh. "Christian burial brings me to the Marriage Service.
They're always at their best, Peter declares, when they're fighting. "But from an Englishwoman trying to be kittenish," he fervently added, "good Lord, deliver us all!" And that started us talking about the English.
"Yet yes; and it frightens me," says she, in a low tone. Tita rubs her cheek softly against hers. "Yet you are not far from the kingdom of God!" says she. The little kittenish gesture and the solemn phrase! Margaret presses Tita to her. What a strange child she is! What a mixture! "Neither are you, I trust," says she.
"Excuse me!" he broke in. "I don't want you to talk to me. If I did " He stopped, with a shrug. Marion felt her face reddening, but she dissembled her embarrassment. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "You're not afraid of me, are you?" It was spoken archly, in her most playful, most kittenish manner, and so she was amazed to see his face distorted as if by some violent emotion.
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