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The gallant soldier was in duty bound not to move his hand, but he so far relaxed as to allow the tips of two of his fingers to crook downwards and give the plump round arm of the wench a good tweak. "Be off with you, I'm afraid you're a bad man after all, Mr. Soldier!" "I fancy I am too, otherwise I suppose there would not have been so much of me little and good you know!"
'Twill count for more than were I to tweak the Duke's nose." I stopped his laughter, smiling myself grimly in the darkness. "A very noble plan for revenge," I admitted, enjoying the swift check-mating of his game. "And one which I am not likely to forget. Unfortunately you come too late. It happens, Senor, that I am already safely indentured to Roger Fairfax." "To Fairfax? She told you that?"
And a little later, Ben Kelham felt no tweak at the string with which Fate had hobbled him to his destiny, when, on hearing his number called, he took the letter from the page-boy, turned it over, and looked at it on each side, as we do when curious, but not over-interested; then he opened it idly, read it and crushed it in both hands.
But still they were not without manners, and reason, and good-will to people who had patience with them. This enabled them to argue lofty questions, without black eyes, or kicking, or even tweak of noses; and a very lofty question was now before them.
It was good to see Wang Kum, tin horn in hand, emerge from his improvised kitchen, and blow the deep blast which should summon his flock to the meal; it was good to see Janey follow in his wake, armed with the great coffee-pot and a pile of light hoe-cakes, and then rush up and down behind the chairs, trying to serve them all at once, while she struggled in vain to repress an inclination to prance, and never failed to give a vigorous tweak to Wang Kum's pigtail, as she passed him.
Zelie Miss di Roma will tell you that he was born in captivity; that from his earliest moment he has been the pet of her family; that he was, so to speak, raised with her and her brothers; that, as children, they often slept with him; that he will follow those he loves like any dog, fight for them, protect them, let them tweak his ears and pull his tail without showing the slightest resentment, even though they may actually hurt him.
You're a fine specimen, aren't you? What do you think the bishop will say to all this?" Tode had recognised the voice of Mr. Gibson, the secretary. He knew that the secretary had a way of going about as soft-footed as a cat. He tried to jerk his ear free, but at that Mr. Gibson gave it such a tweak that Tode could hardly keep from crying out with the pain.
"Rose won't tell us," Lena said, reaching to give one of Rose's brown curls just a little "tweak." "At first when you asked me, I said I didn't know," said Rose, "but now I'll have to say that I know all of Uncle John's plans for the party, but I won't tell." "And Sprite knows something about it, for see! She's laughing now," said Rob. "Like Rose I know, but won't tell," Sprite said.
"If I had not already left the marks of my knuckles on you I would slap your face. As it is, I will simply pull your nose!" And Frank did so, giving Diamond's nose a sharp tweak. Up to his feet leaped the Virginian, his face white with wrath. He picked up a glass of champagne as he arose, and then he dashed it into Frank's face. In a twinkling friends were between them, keeping them apart.
"How do you do?" said Miss Daggett, putting out her hand, without rising. "I'm quite well, thank you," said Patty, and her eyes having grown a little accustomed to the dark, she grasped the old lady's hand, although, as she told her father afterwards, she was awfully afraid she would tweak her nose by mistake. "And how are you, Miss Daggett?"
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