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And the moment his bare soles touched the floor, he felt himself once more agile on the ratlines, larky for a shore-row, handy in any squall. Let them all come, therefore! He smiled; passed his palms down his crib of lean ribs. "Good gracious, why don't you hurry up there...?" an officer came asking, stooping.
"And the point of the joke is that the wife is the least larky person under the sun. See?" A second hot wave passed over Loder's face; a sense of mental disgust filled him. This, then, was the wonderful garden seen from another stand-point! He looked from Lillian, graceful, sceptical, and shallow, to the young girl beside him, so frankly modern in her appreciation of life.
"Oh!" ejaculated the boy, in a disappointed tone; "it's gone!" Bostock shook his head solemnly. "You're a-getting better, young gen'leman," he said. "Of course I am," said Carey; "but what do you mean?" "You shouldn't, sir. There was a young chap once as kep' sheep, and he'd got a larky sort o' sperrit, and every now and then he used to begin running, and "
Ackroyde, who was blessed with a sometimes painfully retentive memory. "I suppose it's Zotos," observed Lady Wrackley. "Who's Zotos?" inquired young Leving of the turned-up nose and the larky expression. "A Greek who's a genius and who lives in South Moulton Street." "What's he do?" "Things that men shouldn't be allowed to know anything about. Talk to Bobbie for a minute, will you?"
I I don't expect she'll be very long. She was alwis a bit larky, was Melier; but very good-'arted. His sister had prepared a strenuous lecture on the theme of 'I told you so'; but the man was so broken, so meek, and so plainly unhinged in his faculties, that she suppressed it.
You see, sir, I'm so spry and happy in a wild life, I am, and if so be as you go to them American parts as you spoke on, why I know 'em just as well as I know Newmarket Heath, every bit! They're terrible rips in them parts; kill you as soon as look at you; it makes things uncommon larky out there, uncommon spicy. You aren't never sure but what there's a bowie knife a-waiting for you."
Lady Holme could see from where she stood that he was in a jovial and audacious mood. The dinner to Sir Jacob Rowley had evidently been well cooked and gay. Fritz had the satisfied and rather larky air of a man who has been having one good time and intends to have another. She glanced into the drawing-rooms. They were crammed. She saw in the distance Lady Cardington talking to Sir Donald Ulford.
These were tentative invitations to play. It made him feel quite larky, though at first he found his machinery of larking rather stiff. The wheels required oiling. And his first attempt to chase Miss Impudence resulted in a collision with Jane Anne carrying a great brown pot of home-made jam for the table. There was a dreadful sound. He had stepped on the cat at the same time.
When visiting such a household late at night it is well to be acquainted with this code, or you may, if persistent, get a bucket of water thrown over you. Also the German student is allowed to put out lights at night, but there is a prejudice against his putting out too many. The larky German student generally keeps count, contenting himself with half a dozen lights per night.
Yet fine fellows though they are here, they are terrible blackguards!" "In course they are, sir; they wouldn't be such larky company unless they was. But what I say is that they're scamps who're told they may be great men, if they like; not scamps who're told that, because they've once gone to the devil, they must always keep there. It makes all the difference in life."
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