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Daisy rushes after them, catches at them, and looks at her empty fingers with a puzzled "All gone!" as plainly expressed by Toby, who snaps at them, and shakes his head with offended dignity at the shock of his meeting teeth, while the kitten frisks after them, striking at them with her paw, amazed at meeting vacancy. Even the grave Norman is drawn in.
The little Gardiners, attracted by the sight of a chaise, were standing on the steps of the house as they entered the paddock; and, when the carriage drove up to the door, the joyful surprise that lighted up their faces, and displayed itself over their whole bodies, in a variety of capers and frisks, was the first pleasing earnest of their welcome.
Bab enjoyed their funny little frisks so much that she tied the wearisome strap to a post, and crept under the rope to pet the tiny mouse-colored one who came and talked to her with baby whinnies and confiding glances of its soft, dark eyes. "Oh, luckless Bab! why did you turn your back?
The little dog frisks before her; it is so cold her feet cling to the rocks and snow at every step, till the skin is fairly torn off. Still and frosty is the bright morning, the water lies smiling and sparkling, the hammers of the workmen building the new hotel on Star Island sound through the quiet air.
The corporal shook his head at it. But, said he, 'twere better for me to get into the saddle; then putting the thumbs of both hands upon the crupper before him, and there-upon leaning himself, as upon the only supporters of his body, he incontinently turned heels over head in the air, and strait found himself betwixt the bow of the saddle in a tolerable seat; then springing into the air with a summerset, he turned him about like a wind-mill, and made above a hundred frisks, turns, and demi-pommadas. Good God! cried Trim, losing all patience, one home thrust of a bayonet is worth it all.
Success will come: of that they are all convinced. While waiting, one washes her antennae by passing them through her mouth, another polishes her wings with her hind legs, another frisks about to while away the period of inaction. Some are making love, a sovran means of killing time, whether one be born that day or twenty years ago. Some, I said, make love.
"Well, how are the yellow ones, Phil? Or was it all débutante and slop-twaddle?" "Few from the cradle, but bunches were arriving for the dance as I left." "Eileen went at half-past eleven." "I didn't know she was going," said Selwyn, surprised. "She didn't want you to. The Playful Kitten business, you know frisks apropos of nothing to frisk about. But we all fancied you'd stay for the dance."
The little Gardiners, attracted by the sight of a chaise, were standing on the steps of the house as they entered the paddock; and, when the carriage drove up to the door, the joyful surprise that lighted up their faces, and displayed itself over their whole bodies, in a variety of capers and frisks, was the first pleasing earnest of their welcome.
The nuts rattle noisily down on its roof; sometimes during "evenin' preachin'" which takes place in the afternoon a flying-squirrel frisks near the window; the hymns echo softly, softly, from the hazy sunlit heights across the valley. "That air the doxol'gy," said Tom Brent, one day, pausing to listen among the wagons and horses hitched outside.
"Be comforted with the knowledge that you have friends, Tom. One all-important thing is wanted, and you are a man again." "As to that!" interrupts Tom, doubtingly, and laying his begrimed hand on his burning forehead, while he alternately frets and frisks his fingers through his matted hair. "Have no doubts, Tom-doubts are dangerous." "Well, say what it is, and I'll try what I can do.
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