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The question is how and why it got to care to know just these things and no others. Two cheeky goats came tumbling down upon me and demanded salt, and the man came from the saw-mill and, with his great brown hands, scooped the mud from the dams of the rills that watered his meadow, for the hour had come when it was his turn to use the stream.
'Ain't yer forgotten the nightcap? sang out a shrill voice from below, as a boy with a basket on his arm went down the street. He drew back from the window, realising that he was a sight for all admirers. Tossing the end of his cigarette in the direction of the cheeky urchin, he settled himself again in the arm-chair before the glowing grate-fire.
He fidgeted about for an answer. "No," he replied, cuttingly, at last, "and I don't believe they ever will." "Oh, I beg your pardon," cried Laura in quick contrition. "I didn't know that it was a tender spot with you, or your family." "It isn't," Bert rejoined hurriedly. "It simply amounts to this, that the reward will never be paid to a pair of cheeky, brazen-faced "
And just as precipitously, just as inexplainably, as ten days before he had seen a Great Light that had knocked all consciousness out of him, he experienced now a second Great Light that knocked him back into the first full consciousness that he had ever known! "Why, Eve!" he stammered. "Why, you mischief! Why, you little cheeky darling! And gathered her into his arms.
"But I want to see what I can do alone and unassisted. No; stay, and let me storm the place single-handed." So Lee and he started toward the ranges, riding side by side. "You will find, sir," said Lee, "that these men, in this here hut, are a rougher lot than you think for. Very like they'll be cheeky. I would almost have wished you'd a' let Mr. Buckley come.
The Warths were in Gastein, and since Hella knows Lisel because they used to go to gym. together, they had a talk, and that cheeky Robert said: Is your friend still such a baby as she was that time in er . . . er . . ., and then he pretended he could not remember where it was; and he spoke of that time as if it had been 10 years ago.
"I say, here's a go! You've got to come up into the loft directly." "The loft!" I said, feeling that here was something fresh. "What for?" "Eely wants us. He sent Dicksee to me to say that we were to go to him directly." "Do you know what for?" I said huskily. "Yes, Dicksee told me. He said he was going to punch our heads for being cheeky. But I say, Frank, we're not obliged to go, are we?"
"It was rough mighty rough but now I know what an Annapolis hazing is like, and I'm glad I do." "Well, I want to tell you I didn't enjoy it," blazed Eph. "It was a mighty cheeky " "Then why did you let the officer imagine you enjoyed it?" taunted Jack. While Hal put in, slyly: "Eph, you're too quick to talk about others fibbing.
Byrd, knowledge must supplement feeling," said Felicity, with a gesture of finality. "Really!" answered Mary, falling back upon her most correct English manner. There was nothing else to say. "She is either cheeky, or a bromide," she thought. "Felicity," exclaimed Constance, "don't adopt your professional manner; you can't take us in. You know you are an outrageous humbug."
"No," replied Stephen; "why?" "Because you will be I know who'll do it, too, and kick you on the shins, too, if you're cheeky!" Stephen was quite at a loss whether to receive this piece of news in the light of information or a threat. He was inclined to believe it the latter; and as he was a rash youth, he somewhat tartly replied, "You won't!"
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