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Screened from the rest by a clothes rack, a larky young lieutenant was discreetly conversing with a "daughter of joy," and an elderly English officer, severely proper and correct, was reading "Punch" and sipping red wine in Britannic isolation.
Stokes, who was by no means a favorite of the lady in question, nodded. "You were a bit larky, too," he said thoughtfully. "You 'ad quite a little slapping game after you pretended to steal her brooch." "I s'pose when a gentleman's with a lady he 'as got to make 'imself pleasant?" said Mr. Henshaw, with dignity.
"But riding," I said, with the eagerness of one who is helpless "what about the horses?" "All in fine condition, gentlemen," said the Sergeant emphatically, "but a bit too fine, and they look thin. The Colonel's having 'em kept down so that they shan't get too larky from having no work to do." "But they're not sent out to graze now?" I said. "Oh yes, regularly."
He had a caterer and a great spread. Tea and sandwiches; all kinds of cakes, candies a huge box for each of us to carry home; and the most beautiful ice-cream with nuts in it. Um! I can taste it yet. Oh, but it was larky!" "It must have been," Blue Bonnet admitted. "This time, Billy says, it is to be very select. What he calls a close corporation! Just you and Annabel and I, and Mrs. White.
He took his wife with him as far as Inverness for a day or two, that she might lay in a good stock of everything antagonistic to cold. When father and mother were gone from the house, the girls felt LARKY. They had no wish to do anything they would not do if their parents were at home, but they had some sense of relief in the thought that they could do whatever they liked.
Three times a week. I 'ave tried to break 'im of these larky 'abits but he won't do what I arsks him. I wish I'd stopped at bein' Pill," wailed Mrs. Barnes, wiping her eyes. "An' if Thomas is drunk and bail bein' required " "I don't know if your husband is drunk or sober," interrupted Jennings. "We are on a different errand. Tell me, Mrs.
"Ah! Then that was done some time ago, I expect." "Oh, dear, no! Only last year. It was exhibited in the last Academy." "Then she's still young?" He peered into the portrait once more with an evident increase of interest. "She looks as if she might be larky." "Can't make her out, on my word," was the response, delivered in a tone of strong disapproval.
Captain Flanger had returned to the spot from the boat, and had listened to the last part of the discussion. "Captain Flanger understands enough of international law to see that I am right," continued Christy, when Percy made no reply. "The people here treat us very handsomely, my little larky," said Captain Flanger, with a coarse laugh.
I swear I will have your thoughts, if I have to pluck them from your heart." "Whe-ew! Well, if I didn't always think thought was free, may I never be an interesting young widow, and captivate Thurston Willcoxen." "You impudent, audacious, abandoned " "Ching a ring a ring chum choo! And a hio ring tum larky!"
But he hated to acknowledge a failure. He disliked to disavow his own judgment. He made a final effort with her, took her one day to luncheon at Simpson's, and in one of the pewlike compartments, over mutton and caper sauce, he tried to "talk a little life into her." "What the devil has come over you?" he demanded savagely. "You were larky enough over in New York.
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