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In the confusion of their transit she managed to secrete the piece of twine, the loss of which had been the cause of the whole upset, and presented it quite innocently to Lispeth, who, not knowing that she was receiving stolen goods, thanked her and tied the parcel. Ingred, who had watched the whole comedy, laughed, but did not give away the secret. "That child's an imp!" she said to Quenrede.
The heart of the farmer was glad as his eye glanced over his promising crop of "mealies." But there was another promising crop that still more gladdened his heart his fine children. There they are all around him. Hans the oldest steady, sober Hans, at work in the well-stocked garden; while the diminutive but sprightly imp Jan, the youngest, is looking on, and occasionally helping his brother.
"Oh, perhaps. No look here. He says, 'I had not previously met Sir Silas Minting, as I left Berlin before he arrived in the beginning of June." The Imp laid down the Journal, leant back in her chair, and regarded Neeld steadily. "You told me right," she added; "I don't find any mention of my mother nor of Heidelberg. It's rather funny that he doesn't mention Heidelberg."
And no longer were her dreams for nothing could change the dreaming heart of the little woman for herself or even for her big Danny; they were for her fine lad, a man now, and Beryl, working so earnestly for her ambition, and little Robin, who would always be little Robin, and the imp of a Susy, ruddy cheeked and happy-hearted.
"Don't tell me I 'say. I had a necklace worth more money than I dared tell that imp. She wouldn't have believed me. And my niece Esther is as fond of baubles as I am. She stole the thing. And she said she lost it. And it's my opinion and it's the imp's opinion she's got it somewhere now." Alston tapped noiselessly, and regarded her from under brows judicially stern.
There is something to be said for your idea after all, Imp." "Why, then, let's be pirates, Uncle Dick," he said with an air of finality. "I think I'll be Scarlet Sam, 'cause I know all about him, an' you can be Timothy Bone, the boatswain." "Aye, aye, sir," I responded promptly; "only I say, Imp, don't roll your eyes so frightfully or you may roll yourself overboard."
"There is a train at half-past ten," I answered. "An' we are going, too!" said Dorothy. "Yes, we're quite ready, Uncle Dick," cried the Imp, thrusting his pistols into his belt. "But you wouldn't leave me all alone, would you, children?" asked Lady Warburton, and there was a certain wistfulness in her sharp face that seemed new to it. "'Course not," sighed the Imp, "only "
"Extremely disobliging of her!" "Yes, wasn't it? So when she was right up I took away the ladder an' hid it." "Highly strategic, my Imp." "So then I turned into Robin Hood. I hung my cap on a bush to shoot at, you know, an' 'the Base Varlet' came up an' ran off with it." "And there it is," I said, pointing to where it lay.
It is vicious. Kit-Ki took a nap on a new dinner-gown of mine, and I slapped her. And the other day Drina hid in a clothes-press while Nina was discussing my private affairs, and when the little imp emerged I could have shaken her. Oh, I am certainly becoming infirm; so if you are, too, comfort yourself with the knowledge that I am keeping pace with you through the winter of our discontent."
As artists then we are largely privileged, I assure you." "Are we placed under a professor to learn the art?" Adela inquired, pleased with the subject under such high patronage. "Each new experience is your accomplished professor," said Tracy. "One I'll call Cleopatra a professor: she's but an illustrious example." "Imp! you are corrupt." With which my lady tapped farewell on his shoulder.
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