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Hartrick in a melancholy tone; "but I am grieved to tell you that there is something else to follow. That little Irish girl is quite as cheeky, even more cheeky than Molly. I fear I must ask you to say a word to her; I shall require her to be respectful to me while she is here. She spoke very rudely to me just now, simply because I found it my duty to correct Molly."
'You ought to feed that dog, I says, absent-minded like. 'He's hungry. "'Humph! says he. 'Well, maybe he'll be fed in a minute. Did you see those signs? "'Yes, says I; 'I saw 'em. They're real neat and pretty. "'Pretty! He fairly choked, he was so mad. 'Why, you cheeky, long-legged jay, he says, 'I'll What are you crossing this field for?
And with this cool retort Miss Palliser turned her back upon her mistress and left the room. 'Did you ever see such cheek? murmured the irrepressible Miss Cobb to her neighbour. 'She can afford to be cheeky, retorted the neighbour. 'She has nothing to lose. Old Pew couldn't possibly treat her any worse than she does. If she did, it would be a police case.
"You'll have to live up to your reputation now," the Dandy said, and, brave in the knowledge that he was within cooee, I ordered the old men about most unmercifully, leaving little doubt in their minds that "missus was big mob cheeky fellow." They were most deferential all day, and at sundown I completed my revenge by offering these rulers of a nation the insult of a woman's protection.
"If you and she sign articles, as she calls it, you'll have to pay more than fares," said Captain Perez, in a matter-of-fact tone. "I think same as Eri does; she's a smart woman. We'll have to meet her at the depot, of course." "Well I won't! Cheeky thing! Let her find out where I am! I cal'late she'll have to do some huntin'."
And some of the younger Indian men try to retaliate as far as they dare, by being in their turn off-hand and cheeky. There are indications that the same sort of spirit is spreading to some of the lower classes, which might easily become a source of serious danger. Anyhow it tends to make the process of amalgamation between the two races increasingly difficult and slow.
This last observation was a triumph of mimicry, and recalled Mrs. Gonorowsky so vividly as to make her atmosphere of garlic and old furniture quite perceptible. "So goes my papa by the door und says 'Who stands? Und my uncle he says 'Lemme in. So-o-oh my papa he opens the door. Stands my unclemit cheeky looks und he showed a fist on my papa.
"Is Mr. Leffingwell going to pick our college?" asked Beany. "You bet he won't pick mine!" said Porky, loftily. "Cause there ain't goin' to be no such animal!" "Well, I dunno," mused the other twin. "We got to find that formula. See, the more people we tell, the more it gums the works. It sounds cheeky, but we work better alone: me and you. Le's go look around while we think.
"I don't know much about Joe, seein' as we haven't met before for many a long year, an' all I remember about our boyhood days is that we fit an' pulled hair most o' the time. But what worries me most is Joe's lookin' so much like me myself, wooden leg an' all. Don't you think it's rather cheeky an' unbrotherly, Trot?" "Perhaps he can't help it," suggested the child.
Colonel Clifford detected him in this posture, and in his wrath gave his chair a whack with his staff that brought Master Walter to the position of a private soldier when the drill-sergeant cries "ATTENTION!" "Did you hear that, sir?" said he. "I did," said Walter: "cheeky little beggar. But you know, father, you were rather hard upon him before his sweetheart, and a little pot is soon hot."
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