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'Nor for tomboys either, said Pert, who did love teasing Sharley whenever he had a chance. 'Jerry's her favourite, said Nan. 'And I think he deserves to be, said her mother. 'I wish he was here to-day, I know that, said Sharley. 'It's such a long time to the holidays, and it won't be so nice this year when they do come, as most likely a boy's coming with Jerry.
She grumbled, but accepted the responsibility, and Jemima, the pert maidservant, made faces behind her back, till summoned by a violent knocking, when she flew to the door and admitted Dorothea, with bag and baggage. Lilias, as the fashionable niece, was "got up regardless."
Fantom was ever on the watch to hitch in his darling doctrines; whatever he began with, he was sure to end with a pert squib at the Bible, a vapid jest on the clergy, the miseries of superstition, and the blessings of philosophy. "Oh!" said Trueman to himself, "when shall I see Christians half so much in earnest? Why is it that almost all zeal is on the wrong side?" "Well, Mr.
"You are a saucy minx," Miss Jemima was saying, in her sharpest tones. "'Minx' yourself," was the pert reply. "No mistress shan't interfere with me and my work, as you've done this last week. If you was a real lady, you wouldn't do it." "You rude girl, I'll teach you to keep your place." "Keep your own," rapped out the girl; "and it 'ull be the better for all parties.
"What do you mean by coming in here where you're not wanted?" he screamed. "Where are your manners?" Actually, Jasper Jay wondered what the rooster was talking about. Never having had any manners, Jasper didn't know the meaning of the word. And since he could not answer, he said nothing. "Stick your spurs into him and maybe he'll speak!" screeched a pert young hen.
I don't know what to do with him, he is so pert! I never saw such a forward child for his age!" Esmeralda's face softened to a beautiful tenderness as she turned down the Shetland shawl and looked at her little son. The pert child had a fat white face, with vacant eyes, a button of a nose, and an expression of preternatural solemnity.
A pretty little Irishwoman, with a pert little turned-up nose, auburn hair so luxuriant that it could not be kept in order, and a set of teeth that glistened in their purity, invited him to sit down, and wiped a chair with her apron for his accommodation. "You've got a nice little place here," remarked the visitor, looking round him.
In the parlour is a surprising chimney-piece, as gigantic as that at Grandsire's at Calais, with wonderful wooden ornaments and a tablet representing Alexander's progress through India, he looking very pert, driving four lions. After dinner I was so tired, that in spite of all my desire to see and hear, I was obliged to lie down and refit.
But they were not all pert there were many characters, many types. And he often wondered whether they did not get tired standing on their feet all day long, hesitating to ask them; speculated on their lives flung as most of them were on a heedless city, and left to shift for themselves. Why was it that the Church which cared for Mr.
The words would have seemed to her pert. "I am told he is clever," resumed Harley. "Oh, certainly." "And he is rather handsome. But I like Leonard's face better." "Better that is not the word. Leonard's face is as that of one who has gazed so often upon Heaven; and Mr. Leslie's there is neither sunlight nor starlight reflected there."