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Some of the servants likewise used me saucily, and had much ado to keep their hands off me; the master indeed was civiller to me than they, but he would not yet let me go, though he owned he could not say I was in his shop before.
I was born with it; I never did mind anything, not even being punished, they say, unless I knew papa was grieved, which always did make me unhappy enough. I laughed, and went to play most saucily, whatever they did to me. If I had striven for the temper, it would be worth having, but it is my nature.
'We have now been here three months, and after the satisfactory evening we had with our accounts, Agatha, last week, we have come to the conclusion that we can live here well within our income. This being the case, and all anxiety for the future 'You're talking like a book, interrupted Elfie saucily; 'don't purse up your mouth so, and look so superior, and like Cousin James.
"If not here, where shall ye find such a one as my mistress?" Pascherette retorted saucily. "Your mistress?" "Without doubt. I am but a slave, my lady is the queen, Dolores." "A queen a white woman?" stammered Venner. "Oh, Venner, let us look into this!" exclaimed Pearse with unconcealed curiosity. "Just what we have prayed for!" Tomlin supplemented eagerly. "Anchor, Venner, like a good fellow.
"That is the way I went there," she interrupted, as she looked up at him, laughing saucily. "But that was before you had, at my request, risked your life in behalf of my child. Let us not hide the truth, Miss Ainslie. We can never go back to the relation of mere acquaintanceship we held before that night.
Their wedding journey was only from the Illinois village where she lived to their Nebraska farm. They had never been much together, and they had much to say to each other. "Farming won't come hard to you," Jim assured her. "All one needs to farm with is brains." "What a success you'll make of it!" she cried saucily.
"Of course she's had all kinds of advantages over this poor little thing; but it's small of her not to forget them. I trusted her to make things sweet; and for the first time she has disappointed me." He looked at Madeline with a distinct feeling of irritation as she rose from the piano. Mr. Lenox came and absorbed Lena, whom he was teaching to answer him saucily.
'But you won't let them frighten you, and abscond without me? That would be too mean, she said saucily. Walter made no verbal reply, and so, hand in hand, they turned to leave the moonlit woods, and there was a look on the face of Walter such as you see on the faces of reverent worshippers who have found rest and peace to their souls.
Wouldn't you like one for a pet, Miss Harz?" "It is very cold," I said, digressively. "I feel the chill of that fragment of Greenland freeze my marrow. I must go fetch my shawl; but first reassure us, Mr. Garth, if possible." He laughed. "I have paid you now for making fun of me to-day," he said, saucily. "I saw your drawing of me in your books, and heerd the ladies laughing.
Hebe is exquisite, and you, O Queen! must represent her!" "I!" exclaimed Cleopatra. "But you said her eyes were cast down." "That is from modesty and timidity, and her gait must also be bashful and maidenly. Her long robe falls to her feet in simple folds, while Peitho holds hers up saucily, between her forefinger and thumb, as if stealthily dancing with triumph over her recent victory.
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