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Knowing full well what was being done, these youths hurried home to tell what was going on. The head-man of the village was on good terms with Voalavo at the time, besides being a distant relative. Hence the message and the invitation. As our happy-go-lucky chief was out in what may be termed a larky state of mind, and had nothing particular to do, he accepted the invitation.
If Liz had been the child of a respectable married couple that could give her a good start in life, 'probability is she'd have run straight from the first. Dunno about me. I was always a bit larky.
Why, you ought to be proud of yourself instead of fidgeting with a lot of morbid fancies. You have been for years and years a boy, fresh larky, as you would say full of mischief, as I was myself " "You, Doctor! Impossible!" "What! Ha, ha! Why, Archie Maine, I have watched you pretty thoroughly since we have been friends, noted your pranks, and seen the trouble you have got into with the Major.
"Oh, I don't propose that really; only, you see, one must have larks. One couldn't live without them. I don't think there is anything quite so larky as frightening people." "Now, once for all, Irene, if that is your idea of life, I will write at once to mother and tell her I am coming home." "No, you won't. I won't let you. I love you. I will try to be a little bit good just to please you.
"He's a boy, sir, though he don't like to be reminded o' the fact," said Joe with a laugh. "He's the son of our skipper who was drowned an' a good boy he is, though larky a bit. But that don't do him no harm, bless ye." "I wonder," returned the captain, "if he is the boy some lady friends of mine are so fond of, who was sent up to London some time ago to "
A few minutes before the arrival of the Suffragettes, two nondescript young men, in a larky mood, appeared with the announcement that they'd seen 'one of them' at the top of Ranelagh Street. 'That'll be the little 'un, said the tramp to nobody. 'You don't ketch 'er bein' late! 'Blunt!
"You needn't go on too fast," said the latter, turning to her mother. "I haven't made up my mind yet. Charlie's looks are all right, but he ain't over and above steady, and Ben is steady, but he ain't much to look at." "What does your 'art say?" inquired the sentimental Mr. Dowson. Neither lady took the slightest notice. "Charlie Foss is too larky," said Mrs.
Frankly, I do not believe it will work; but if it does my little contribution will be well spent; and if it doesn't, my own conviction will be justified. Beryl squealed with delight. "How larky to have her remember every solitary thing you told her, Robin even what we called her house. What are you going to do with it all? I wish I could get money like that."
I remarked a frock-coat with satin lapels behind the door; there was a dignified umbrella in the corner and a clothes-brush and a hat-brush stood on a side-table. My uncle returned in five minutes looking at his watch a gold watch "Gettin' lunch-time, George," he said. "You'd better come and have lunch with me!" "How's Aunt Susan?" I asked. "Exuberant. Never saw her so larky.
"Returned it, as you know," was the answer, and Jerry winked suggestively. "I'd have flung the bag in the river before I would give it to such a chap as Tom Rover," growled Larkspur. "You trust me, Larky, old boy," answered Jerry Koswell. "I know what I'm doing." "Humph!" "I said I returned the case, but I didn't say I returned all that was in it." "What do you mean by that?" demanded Flockley.
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