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"'Lad! Lord bless your soul, sir, he's no more a lad than you or I! The young rascal is a girl in boy's clothes, sir!" said the officer who had the culprit in custody. "What what what!" exclaimed Old Hurricane, gazing in consternation from the young prisoner to the accuser; "what what! my newsboy, my saucy little prince of patches, a girl in boy's clothes?" "Yes, sir a young scoundrel!
Harry Warrington blushed like a girl at the daring talk of his new European associates: even Aunt Bernstein's conversation and jokes astounded the young Virginian, so that the worldly old woman would call him Joseph, or simpleton. But, however innocent he was, the world gave him credit for being as bad as other folks. How was he to know that he was not to associate with that saucy Cattarina?
'Wot d'yer mean by thet? she said; 'd'yer think I'm kiddin'? 'Kiddin'? No! You've only just come up from the country, ain't yer? 'Think I'm kidding? What d'yer think I want ter kid for? Liars never believe anyone, thet's fact. 'Na then, Liza, don't be saucy. 'Saucy! I'll smack yer in the eye if yer sy much ter me.
Her eyes caught the small knot of lace and ribbons for which she was looking, and she pinned it on top of her saucy little curls. "In you go," said Aggie, motioning to the bed. "Wait," said Zoie impressively, "wait till I get my rose lights on the pillow."
What is expressed upon the matter by the household? Speak frankly." "Frankly then," replied the duke, "your highness's proceedings are regarded as harsh and unjustifiable. The general opinion is, that you only desire to remove Anne to make way for Mistress Jane Seymour." "Ha! they talk thus, do they?" cried the king. "I will silence their saucy prating ere long.
"Jacob! why, I trow he will but come the more," answered Cherry, with a saucy gleam in her eye as she looked in Kezzie's grave face. "He will come to thee for comfort, my sister, and I trow that thou wilt give it him in full measure." Keziah's grave face lighted up somewhat. "Thinkest thou that? Indeed I would gladly try. Jacob is a good lad and a kind one.
"Mass, townsmen," cried one hardy citizen to his companions, "the saucy smith but jests with us! Let us into the house, and bring him out by the lug and the horn." "Take care what you are doing," said a more cautious assailant. "The man that presses on Henry Gow's retirement may go into his house with sound bones, but will return with ready made work for the surgeon.
Where did you hide your paper, pens, and ink? Some, sir, in one place, some in another; that I might have some left, if others should be found. That's a good girl! said he; I love you for your sweet veracity. Now tell me where it is you hide your written papers, your saucy journal?
She was charmed with her saucy sailor-boy, who had no serious intentions or hopes, who would most likely be gone on the morrow, and who asked nothing more than to be happy with her through that happy summer day.
This was the Lady Glencora Palliser, the great heiress who had married the heir of a great duke, pretty, saucy, and occasionally intemperate, in whose eyes Lady Ware with her ferocious tiara was simply an old woman in a ridiculous head-gear.
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