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So the house was quite bare, and my young master, the moment ever he set foot in it out of his gig, thought all those things must come of themselves, I believe, for he never looked after anything at all, but harum-scarum called for everything as if we were conjurors, or he in a public-house.
People of the fast Morrell type were losing their influence and ascendency, were being pushed aside to the fringes by the more "solid" elements. Wealth and arrogant dignity were coming into their innings. Formal functions, often on an elaborate scale, were taking the place of the harum-scarum informal parties. There came up some questions of social leadership.
There may also have been some family sentiment in the matter, for while Lady Mary was an intimate friend of Walpole's harum-scarum sister, "Dolly," who was now Lady Townshend, Lady Walpole was very decidedly her enemy. Lady Mary presently had her tit-for-tat with Lady Walpole by "taking up" Walpole's mistress, Molly Skerritt.
He in a manner took the boy under his tutelage, prompted him to all kinds of mischief, aided him in every wild, harum-scarum freak, until the lad became the complete scapegrace of the village; a pest to his uncle, and to every one else. Nor were his pranks confined to the land; he soon learned to accompany old Pluto on the water.
"Well, that ain't the story I have," drawled the squire. "Where's that wild harum-scarum Tavia Travers? She's the one that's blamed." "Tavia Travers!" called the astonished Miss Ellis, but of course there came no answer. "Absent!" answered a girl from the back row. "Can you tell us where she is?" Miss Ellis asked Dorothy. "At home I believe," answered Dorothy simply.
"You'll stay and surprise Wolf, he'd love it," Norma said, as the visitor's approving eyes noted the general order and warmth, the blue-checked towels and blue bowls, the white table and white walls. The little harum-scarum baby of the family was proceeding to get her husband a most satisfactory and delicious little dinner, and Aunt Kate was proud of her. "Did you make that cake, darling?"
"Then stay here and await our return," cried Fred, bluntly, looking up from his work. Smith moved uneasily, muttered something in an under tone, felt the edge of his constant companion, a heavy axe, and then replied, "If you two harum-scarum youngsters are determined to get your throats cut, I don't see but that I shall have to be near at hand.
No doubt filial affection was excellent in its way, but in fact it was highly questionable whether my father was still at the Court of this German prince; my father had stated that he meant to visit England to obtain an interview with his son, and I might miss him by a harum-scarum chase over Germany. And besides, was I not offending my grandfather and my aunt, to whom I owed so much?
"She's a harum-scarum lot, I'm afraid, and a sad chatterbox, but she's the right sort of a person for a man with nerves like you! You're looking a bit white still, I see!" Wrayson would have spoken then, but his tongue seemed to cling to the roof of his mouth.
That peerless porter caught it, twirled it, kissed it, bowed, and grinned afresh as the train glided out of the shed. Emma, flushed, smiling, flew up the aisle. Buck, listening to her laughing, triumphant account of her hairbreadth, harum-scarum adventure, frowned before he smiled. "Emma, how could you do it! At least, why didn't you send back for me first?" Emma smiled a little tremulously.
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