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Updated: August 21, 2024
This afternoon, I had finished telling him about how grandpappy shot the turkey for Dr. MacDonald, and I found him looking up at me with his big blue eyes, which can be as serious as a saint's or as mischievous as an imp's. 'Your face is most always laughing, Miss Webb, said he.
For he would have remarked that the Imp's black eyes were resting lovingly upon a rain-water-pipe, giving to a skilful climber easy access to the terrace underneath the Prince's windows. "I would like to see him," said the Imp. "Friend o' yours?" asked the sentry. "Well, not exactly," admitted the Imp. "But there, you know, everybody's talking about him down our street."
Dick sighed and held his peace. For him it seemed that the light heart and joyous carelessness of that bright youthful time was gone, never to come again. "I have learned so much since then," continued Simon, putting a little grey into his imp's muzzle, "and unlearned so much, too, which is better still. Mannerism, Stanmore mannerism is the great enemy of art.
"I must send a telegram," he said, and went to the telephone in the inner office. While he was there Chester heard the honk of the Imp's horn outside. When Burns came back he opened the outer door and called to Johnny Caruthers, to know if he had obtained the serum for which he had been sent to the druggist. Johnny shouted back that he had. Burns turned to Chester. "Good night," he said.
Over two of the beds they flew, and then brought up in a corner with a crash. "Have mercy on the furniture!" cried Joe Nelson. "Don't knock over the table!" added Stuffer. "Give me that snow!" cried Andy, and managed to get a small portion from Pepper. "How do you like that?" And he plastered the snow in The Imp's left ear. "Hurrah! Snow from Snow!" cried Jack.
And he handed over the insignia of an order in a morocco case. The insignia consisted of a necklace of imp's tails to be worn about the throat, and two toads, one to be worn on the bosom and the other on the bustle. He lived at Pirogovo, twenty miles from Yasnaya, and visited us often. As a young man he was very handsome.
"Come along if you must," said he, and stalked out into the night. For an hour, in the light from one of the Green Imp's lamps, Chester sat on an overturned box and watched Burns work. He worked savagely, as if applying surgical measures to a mood as well as to a machine. He worked like a skilled mechanic as well; every turn of a nut, every polish of a thread meaning definite means to an end.
Iver looked vexed and ashamed. "It's all her fault that Harry Tristram's that Harry Tristram's " The Imp's voice was choked; she could get no further. Old Mr Neeld came forward. He took Harry's letter from Cecily and gave it to Mina. "My dear, my dear!" he said gently, as he patted her hand. "Read that again." Mina read, and then scrutinized Cecily keenly.
His head ringing from the stroke of that sturdy black wing, his plump flank smarting and bleeding from a fierce jab of that pointed beak of the imp's, he squeaked with rage and clambered up again to the battle. Mr. Rat, you know, is no coward and no quitter. "And now he was more dangerous, because he was ready.
Lisbeth had the grace to blush. "Do I understand that I am not forgiven after all?" "Not until I know why you did such a mad, thoughtless trick," she answered, with that determined set of her chin which I knew so well. That I should thus shoulder the responsibility for the Imp's misdeeds was ridiculous, and wrong as it was unjust, for if ever boy deserved punishment that boy was the Imp.
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