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" four five six " she was counting, and Ross found himself joining in: " seven eight nine ten!" On reaching "ten" he was fully awake and knew that she had applied the emergency procedure they had been drilled in using, giving him a pep shot. When Ross sat up on the narrow bunk there was a light in the cabin and no sign of day outside the porthole.
"We are agreed, Don Jaime," he said with his rustic tenacity, "that it was all a joke, and that you will not bother the girl any more with your notions." "No, Pèp, we are agreed that I love Margalida, and that I am going to her courting with the same right as any of the island boys. The old customs must be respected." He smiled at the peasant's ill-humored expression.
None of the children can brag and children is limbs of Satan for bragging," she added. "I've got a doll," said Gussie. "I've got a dollar," said Pep. "My mamma went to a tea party," said Gussie. "My mamma give one," said Pep. Gussie mustered her forces. "My papa goes to work every morning," she topped it.
He spoke with a firm accent, trying to fascinate her with the impassioned fixedness of her eyes, drawing near her, as if to caress her with the music of his words. And how about him? What did Margalida think of him? What if he should present himself to Pèp some day, telling him that he wished to marry his daughter? "You!" exclaimed the girl. "You, Don Jaime!"
Indeed, one of the most enthusiastic Rotarians I ever met boosted the tenets of one-hundred-per-cent pep in a burr that smacked o' bonny Scutlond and all ye bonny braes o' Bobby Burns.
I'm a sport, I am!" was the defiant remark. "So was Mr. Carwell Old Carwell we used to call him. But he had more pep than some of you younger chaps. "Leave his name out of this!" growled LeGrand, like some dog trying to keep his temper against the attacks of a cur. "This woman I needn't tell you her name now, for she has several," he went on to Minnie.
I wonder Do we Boosters throw too many fits about pep?" From this thought he shuddered away, and listened devoutly to Eathorne's ideas on the advancement of the Sunday School, which were very clear and very bad.
What a misleading thing the English language is, anyway! You'd naturally expect a harpy to play on a harp. Anyway, you needn't laugh, Sahwah. I remember once you said in class that a peptonoid was a person with a lot of pep, so there!" Sahwah joined gaily in the laugh that followed at her expense.
Then they did some one-step pieces with lots of pep in 'em, and the way Garvey could roll the sticks, and tinkle the triangle, and keep the cymbals and base drum goin' with his foot was as good to watch as a jugglin' act, even if he does leak a lot on the face when he gets through. "You're some jazz artist, I'll say," says I. "So will the neighbors, I'm afraid," says Mrs. Garvey.
The camp CO used to ride around on a white horse and occasionally he would give us a pep talk; to those of us who were getting a bit too boisterous he said, "Most of you before the war were law abiding citizens but once you've put on a uniform and moved away from home you think you've become licensed buccaneers. Behave yourselves."
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