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Unnoticed, and with but a brief word to Cedarquist, Magnus and Harran went down the marble steps leading to the street door, silent, Harran's arm tight around his father's shoulder. At once the orchestra struck into a lively air.
"Thank you, my dear sister. But you have got a wiser, if not so lively an addition to your society, than your unworthy brother Pray, who is this Mr. Lovel, whom our old uncle has at once placed so high in his good graces? he does not use to be so accessible to strangers." "Mr. Lovel, Hector, is a very gentleman-like young man."
But these qualities were evidently combined with an unaffected humility, and the Doctor gave her his esteem as soon as he had looked at her. A brave little person, with lively perceptions, and yet a disbelief in her own talent for social, as distinguished from practical, affairs this was his rapid mental resume of Mrs.
Tea was served in the library, and the host looked on with benign satisfaction at the lively scene, though Blanche Farrow saw his face change and stiffen, when his penetrating eyes rested in turn for a long moment on Bubbles' now laughing little face. Perhaps because of that frowning look, she drew the girl after her into the hall. "Come in here for a moment, Bubbles I want to speak to you.
"It's a perfect surprise to them! they didn't think we could do it!" cried Gray, elated. "Lively, boys! lively." The firing, regular at first, running along the line from right to left, soon became a continual rattling, each man loading at will, and firing whenever an enemy's head showed itself. "There! I popped you over, you sneaking rebel!" cried Seth Tucket, watching the effect of his shot.
It has been said, that being desired to attend to the noble prospect from the Castle Hill, he replied, 'Sir, the noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to London. This lively sarcasm was thrown out at a tavern in London, in my presence, many years before.
I swept the mass of tangled green stems into the open space just outside the gate. Three or four more strokes and Dick stopped whistling suddenly, spat on his hands and with a lively "Here she goes!" came swinging in behind me. The clover-cutting had begun. At first I thought the heat would be utterly unendurable, and, then, with dripping face and wet shoulders, I forgot all about it.
"Lively as a sand flea." "How did he happen to get into the water, in the first place?" Mr. Barrett inquired. "Chiefly because his Aunt Phebe advised him to be careful, or he would get his feet wet," Hope answered. "There is no use in my trying to excuse my naughty boy, Mr. Barrett.
These two affairs of the chase and of the gale have driven us fully twelve hundred miles from the course we ought to have taken." "Fortunately, mademoiselle, there are none to feel apprehensions on our account, or, none whose interest will be so keen as to create a very lively distress. I hope, gentlemen, you are equally at ease on this score?"
Well, Sir, it is now more than three years ago since I first met one Tom Thornton; it was at a boxing match. Tom was chosen chairman, at a sort of club of the farmers and yeomen; and being a lively, amusing fellow, and accustomed to the company of gentlemen, was a great favourite with all of us. He was very civil to me, and I was quite pleased with his notice.
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