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The moment she heard Toby's bark she changed her walk to a quick run and threw herself down beside Cecile with an easy hail-fellow-well-met manner. "Well, you're a queer un, you ere," she said, looking up pertly in Cecile's face, "a-hugging of that big dawg, and a-sitting on the church steps of St. Stephen's on the werry bitterest evening that has come this year yet.
"Knowing what Jack Poindexter does of human nature," her husband had once said, "it's mighty fine in him to be so kind and forgiving. You ought to like him better, Belle." "And qualify myself to be forgiven," said the lady pertly. "I don't see what you're driving at, Belle; I give it up," had responded the puzzled husband. Mrs.
"Consider," cried Mrs. Finch, "that when water gets into the nest it remains there and your little ones are drowned." The thrushes begged Solomon with a look to say something crushing in reply to this, but again he was perplexed. "Try another drink," suggested Mrs. Finch pertly. Kate was her name, and all Kates are saucy. Solomon did try another drink, and it inspired him.
The latter, upon noticing me, held up his two hands in despair. What! Was that the servant they had procured for him. Then he came and looked pertly up into my face, and walked around me, shrugging his shoulders. His expression was so comical that every one burst out laughing. They quite understood that the monkey thought I was a fool. The spectators thought that also.
"Well, I tell ye what it is, ladies," he said, pulling off his broad brimmed hat to wipe a perspiring, red brow. "I gotter do my duty " "With the prospect of five hundred dollars ahead of you!" interposed Bobby, pertly. "That ain't neither here nor there," declared the man. "I got to search the island." "You know best what you must do, sir," said Mrs. Morse, coldly.
And when the latter tried to persuade her in her soft voice, "Do drink, it'll do you good," she answered pertly, "I'll take precious good care I don't. I shall not drink it," and turned her face to the wall. Why on earth wouldn't she drink that good cup of tea? The man would very much have liked to know that. But Mrs. Tiralla did not ask why.
What have they got with them, I wonder?" They stopped in the road opposite the house, which was the end one in the village. "You are not to come nearer," one of the sentries shouted. "I am sure I don't want to come nearer," the woman said pertly. "You don't think you are so handsome that I want to get a better sight of your face?" "What have you got there?" the man asked.
The body of the woman has been since identified as that of the beau-ti-ful daughter of of of Terp Terp Terpish' Well! I swow that name just tackles me." "Gin it to me, Dad," said Bessy pertly. "You never had any education, any way. Hear your accomplished daughter."
It is the most enormous sauciness that can be imagined, to speak petulantly or pertly concerning Him; especially considering that whatever we do say about Him, we do utter it in His presence, and to His very face. "For there is not," as the holy psalmist considered, "a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether."
"I shouldn't call her a beauty," Ruth declared, as the yellow hen settled down on her eggs, spreading out her feathers till she looked as large as a small turkey. "Her legs remind me of feather dusters," Amy remarked pertly. "It looks to me as if she were trying to revive the fashion of pantalets," suggested Priscilla. Peggy was forced to join in the general laugh.
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