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'You are very hard on him, said Madame Midas, with a laugh. 'Ah! Mr Calton believes as I do, cried Vandeloup, 'that it's no good having friends unless you're privileged to abuse them. 'It's one you take full advantage of, then, observed Kitty, saucily. 'I always take what I can get, he returned, mockingly; whereon she shivered, and Calton saw it.
"What do I care for that?" said Tilly, tipping her head backward until it bumped against the wall of the house with a sounding bang, whereat Dora Robson gave a little giggle and exclaimed, "Mercy, Tilly, I heard it crack!" Then another girl giggled, it was another of the Robsons, Dora's Cousin Amy; and after the giggle she said saucily, "Tilly's head is full of cracks already.
To own a seat, was the great object of my ambition in boyhood; but the thought had weakened by time and reflection. "What does Lucy think of the matter? Do I want, or indeed deserve, a better house?" "I shall not answer either question," replied the dear girl, a little saucily, I thought. "I do not understand your wants, and do not choose to speak of your deservings.
To this query the only reply was a knowing wink, and a significant wag of the forefinger, which, when translated, meant "Come here, friend, and I'll tell you." "Get along with you, sir!" said Jacob, contemptuously. "Thank you, but I won't," replied Howison, saucily. "No! Then what the devil do you want?" "You," said the former, emphatically.
George, I would have speech with you." "Private business, Betty?" he asked pleasantly. "My wife may not have the vote, but I trust her with all my affairs!" "Indeed, I'm not in the least interested!" Genevieve said saucily. She knew George was pleased with her as she went happily away. "It's just as well Jinny went," said Betty, when she and the district-attorney-elect were alone.
"We spinsters, belonging, as we do, to the sisterhood of the Great Unloved, are quite incompetent to express an intelligent opinion on that or on any other matter. I grant that, but is Mr. Steell, a confirmed old bachelor, any more competent than I?" "Hardly an old bachelor!" interrupted Helen reprovingly. "No middle-aged bachelor!" corrected Ray saucily. "He never cared for a woman in his life.
Are you tired of the ship?" she asked saucily. "No," he replied bluntly; "but it would have given us four more days together four more days before we separated." He stopped, with a heightened color. There was a moment of silence, and the voices of Senor Perkins and Mr. Banks in political discussion on the other side of the deck came faintly. Miss Keene laughed.
Isn't that more to your taste, my lord?" "Elizabeth what?" he persisted. "Upon my word, I begin to think you really are daft! Why, Elizabeth Dudley, of course," she said, flushing and looking shy and embarrassed; "that is, unless you mean for me to wed some saner man than this Abner Dudley, Esquire," she added saucily.
Please let me go somewhere with you," and she thrust her soft little hand confidingly into Wendot's, looking up saucily into his face as she added, "You are the biggest; I like you the best." Wendot's face glowed; but on the whole he was flattered by the attention and the preference of the little maiden.
"How do you know how a burglar feels?" said Lil saucily. It was rather an exciting moment. A sea-breeze sprang up, and the blinds rattled loudly, as though some angry hand were trying to break them away. I started nervously and looked over my shoulder, half expecting to see the wrathful face of a slim, dark man. A cold air blew through the room.
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