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Descending the hills, he remembered several omens: the sun had sunk when he looked down on the villas and clustered houses, not an edge of the orb had been seen; the admiral's quarters in the broad-faced hotel had worn an appearance resembling the empty house of yesterday; the encounter with the fellow on the rocks had a bad whisper of impish tripping.
She still sat huddled up on the foot of the bed, watching her mother's face intently. Naomi appeared to sleep. The candle burned long, and the wick was crowned by a little cap of fiery red that seemed to watch Eunice like some impish goblin. The wavering light cast grotesque shadows of Sarah Spencer's head on the wall.
It was most distressing, the sense of dull despair and unwarranted disaster which hung over the place. It was as though impish and pagan forces, or malign ones outside life, had committed a crime of the ugliest character. On Monday, the day he saw me, he was well. On Tuesday morning he had a slight cold but insisted on running out somewhere without his overcoat, against which his wife protested.
I reveled in Puck and his impish pranks, and unconsciously realized that it was a part in which the imagination could run riot. I believe I played it well, but I did not look well, and I must contradict emphatically the kind assumption that I must have been a "delightful little fairy." As Mamilius I was really a sweet little thing, but while I was playing Puck I grew very gawky not to say ugly!
Very early next morning an impish figure sat astride the old wooden pump that stood near the door of the cottage. He seemed to have no interest in anything save that door, and he sat very still, his eyes riveted upon it. The old pump had not been used in years, but it served for a fine pedestal for Gyp. At last he heard the key turn in the lock, and he was all attention.
"And Vaudreuil has sent bees buzzing to Versailles about Bigot and Company," added the impish satirist. Madame Duvarney responded with a look of interest, and the Seigneur's eyes steadied to his plate. All at once by that I saw the Seigneur had known of the Governor's action, and maybe had counseled with him, siding against Bigot.
And yet part with them I could not. These black, impish creatures must be my pioneers to Venice. I now made haste to take my last look of the several objects which had endeared themselves to me during my short stay.
Her attitude was pensive, disconsolate, curiously forlorn for a girl normally high-spirited. He was on the point of signaling to her when he remembered Furneaux's presence. There was something impish, almost diabolically clever, in that little man's characteristics which induced wariness. The dinner was a marvel, considering the short notice given to the cook. Luckily, Mrs.
Of course, he retains your Southern ante-bellum mythical notion of Northerners all of us willing to have them marry our sisters. Well, there's a lady at our boarding-house who says you are a real gambler." The impish look came curling round his lips, but for a moment only, and it was gone. "That shook Daddy Ben up a good deal." "Having his grandson do it, do you mean?"
Robin stood with a sullen look on his face, and hands in his pockets, and his brothers followed suit. Armine hid his face in his mother's dress, and burst out crying; but Jock stepped forth and, with that impish look of fearlessness, said, "I did it, Uncle Robert! I wanted to make Aunt Ellen laugh.
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