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But you are to consider my own situation and its necessities; also a certain lightheartedness, eminently Gallic, which forms a leading trait in my character, and leads me to throw myself into new circumstances with the spirit of a schoolboy. It is possible that I sometimes allow this impish humour to carry me further than good taste approves: and I was certainly punished for it once.
I am told that Wiles is the ring leader in many reckless acts, and will stop at nothing to gain his ends. Zibe Turner, called the monster dwarf, is his right-hand man, who will pick his chestnuts from the fire, though he burn his impish fingers in so doing."
He had, first of all, intended not to go to sleep at all, for his last glance out of the window before going to bed showed him Monsieur Dudu on the terrace path, enjoying the moonlight apparently, but, Hugh strongly suspected, bent on mischief, for his head was very much on one side and his claw very much stuck out, in the way which Jeanne declared made him look like a very impish raven indeed.
It was as if she was glad to take him into her confidence and unbend. Within the pre-natal Amanda an impish Amanda still lingered. There were aspects of Amanda that it was manifest dear Betty must never know.... But the real Amanda of that November visit even in her most unpontifical moods did not quite come up to the imagined Amanda who had drawn him home across Europe.
If he had not revealed his past history to Elizabeth he would not have searched the drawer for papers, and so on. The mockery was, that he should have no sooner taught a girl to claim the shelter of his paternity than he discovered her to have no kinship with him. This ironical sequence of things angered him like an impish trick from a fellow-creature.
Even as children the very sight of Martha Browning's solemn face" Peregrine drew his countenance down into a portentous length "her horror at the slightest word or sport, her stiff broomstick carriage, all impelled me to the most impish tricks. And now letting alone that pock-marks have seamed her grim face till she is as ugly as Alecto she is a Precisian of the Precisians.
Though even if it were," she added, with a rather impish laugh, looking down at and fingering the little bunch of trinkets, attached to a long gold chain, which rested in her lap "Carteret would hardly succeed in holding his peace. Speak of everything, sooner or later, he must." She felt rather than saw Damaris' figure grow rigid. "Have you ever detected that small weakness in him?
Studiously I had evaded whensoever possible the intrusion of self, for do not I rank myself among the nonentities men whose lives matter nothing, whose deaths none need deplore. How great my bewilderment to find that my efforts at concealment to make myself even more remote than my Island had had by impish perversity a contrary effect! On no consideration shall I part with all my secrets.
One black impish bird, more malignant or more sympathetic than his fellows, ventured to poise on the skiff's stern! Bill hissed off this third passenger. The crow rose on its toes, let the boat slide away from under him, and followed croaking dismal good wishes. The last sunbeams were now cutting in everywhere. The thick snow-flurry was like a luminous cloud. Suddenly it drew aside.
Wilkes, Gosse, and one or two others of the squires were sitting on a bench looking on, and now and then applauding a more than usually well-aimed cast of the knife. Suddenly that impish little page spoken of before, Robin Ingoldsby, thrust his shock head around the corner of the smithy, and said: "Ho, Falworth! Blunt is going to serve thee out to-day, and I myself heard him say so.
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