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"Well, what it amounts to is just that women want to have a better time. That's what it comes to in the end. I am aware of that, without her telling me." "And don't you sympathise with such an aspiration?" "Well, I don't know as I cultivate the sentimental side," said Doctor Prance. "There's plenty of sympathy without mine.
We pulled up, and the two horses began to sidle and prance, and throw up their heads so that we could not indulge in a bit of conversation. "Brute!" said Harry Lothrop, "if I were sure of getting on again, I would dismount and thrash you awfully." "Remember Pickwick," I said; "don't do it." I had hardly spoken, when the strap of his cap broke, and it fell from his head to the ground.
"Why, don't you consider her career very remarkable?" "Oh yes; everything is remarkable nowadays; we live in an age of wonders!" the young man replied, much amused to find himself discussing the object of his adoration in this casual way, in the dark, on a lonely country-road, with a short-haired female physician. It was astonishing how quickly Doctor Prance and he had made friends again.
So Phebe sat demurely in her place while her new teacher laid forth books and slates, a pretty inkstand and a little globe; hastily tore a bit off her big sponge, sharpened pencils with more energy than skill, and when all was ready gave a prance of satisfaction that set the pupil laughing.
Helen duly thanked the young Englishman for his intended gift, but as the little animal at that moment took it into its head to grow restive, and kick, scream, and prance about, she did not show any inclination to approach it. Crawford having taken his horse and little captive round to the yard, hurried up to the platform, where Percy was standing.
But he ain't got a chance the faster he romps the faster the dingus rolls out from under him. He can run a forty shot, 'n' he don't go no further 'n I can throw a piano! "After I've worked both dogs on the dingus fur a week or so, I tells Banks they know the game 'n' believe me, they did! Why, them ole hounds got so they begins to prance when they see the machine.
They had reins of red leather, with bells, and Freddie was the horse while his twin sister was the driver. "I'm a bad horse, I'll run away if you don't watch me," cautioned Freddie, and began to prance around wildly, against the grape arbor and then up against the side fence. "Whoa! whoa!" screamed Flossie, jerking on the reins. "Whoa, you naughty horse! If I had a whip, I'd beat you!"
So spoke Billy with the philosophy of middle-aged youth, while the man beside him sat with clenched hands and faced the hateful vision of Dinah, the fairy-footed and gay of heart, writhing under that horrible and humiliating punishment. He spoke at length, and some electricity within him made the animal under him fidget and prance, for he stirred neither hand nor foot.
In these respects a general spirit of good nature is perceptible among employers, so that our Fred meets none of the harrowing adventures of an Oliver Twist in his new situation. To be sure he soon found it was not as good fun to ride a horse hour after hour, and day after day, as it was to prance and caper about for the first few minutes.
"I throws her on to Salvini 'n' he begins to prance around, me holdin' him by the head. "'Whoa, you big bum! I says to him. "'Quit knocking my horse, she says. 'Let go of him and see if I care. "I turns him loose 'n' she lets him jump a few times 'n' then rides him on to the machine. I see she knows her business so I stands beside her 'n' makes her sit him like she ought.