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"Glue?" queried Esmeralda saucily. They were sitting together at a little table behind most of the other guests, and she lay back in her chair looking up at him with a roguish smile. "Glue?" "Glue principally.
"Perhaps if I become as stupid a coward as Jean Paulet." The farmer frowned. "I am no coward I am an experienced man. And I tell you I, with the weight of forty years behind me that they will find you some time." "And I tell you I," mimicked Rosette saucily, "with the weight of my twelve years behind me that I have lived through so many perils, I should be able to live through another!"
And, 'Spine of God, he cried, 'this is a saucy child of mine, and saucily shall she do by the French power. Then his face was wrenched by pain, as with a sob he said, 'I had a son Fulke. Gaillarda did saucily enough, to tyrannise over ten years of Philip's life; in the end, as all know, she played the strumpet, and served the enemies of her father's house, but not while Richard lived to rule her.
She informed him that she lived three streets off, where there were shops. "Well, then," said Wilfrid, "bring me the envelope here, and you'll have another opportunity of looking down the area." "Think of yourself," replied she, saucily; but proved a diligent messenger. Then Wilfrid wrote on a fresh slip: "When I said "Free," I meant free in heart and without a single chain to keep me from you.
"Perhaps I was intended to be born in one of them, and that is why my housekeeping accounts never add up." Here hope was called away, and Emilia saucily murmured, "Sour grapes!" "Not a bit of it!" cried Kate, indignantly. "Hope might have anything in society she wishes, if she would only give up some of her own plans, and let me choose her dresses, and her rich uncles pay for them.
"He tells her frankly that she has no method, no voice, no tone, etc., I am not used to musical terms, and she saucily replies by telling him that, where one person will enjoy his studied renderings of the old masters, a score will appreciate and be the happier for her little ballads, simply because she discards all methods and sings from the heart; and usually Molly talks him into silence, I suppose because he is too much of a gentleman to set her down as she deserves the pert little Miss!
The sunbonnet was waved saucily in the air, and then instead of steering for the landing place as they expected, the boat suddenly disappeared around a corner of the rocks, in the opposite direction, while there came ringing out on the air, in mocking tones, the words of the old song: "I saw the boat go 'round the bend."
He saw Terry, jauntily, even saucily dressed, as she came out of the store and jumped into her car, marked how the bright sunlight winked from her high boots, how it flamed upon her gay red scarf, how it glinted from a burnished steel buckle in her hat band. As bright as a sunbeam herself, loving gay colors about her, across the distance she fairly shone and twinkled.
Bustling cabin-boys rushed hither and thither with great baskets of stores; the jauntily-arrayed stewardess chatted saucily with her friends in the shore-boats; sailors slipped quietly over the bulwarks with their secretly-collected menageries of pets; watermen contended stoutly at the gangway for a landing near the steps; and dusky cameradas cursed, in broken French and Portuguese, at the weight of the trunks.
They skipped saucily around members of the faculty, chased appreciative juniors, frightened the smallest forms into scuttling flight, and gave their great performance of "There was an old woman all skin and bones," in the middle of the upper hall, where the seniors were entertaining the sophomores. It was fun to howl.
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