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Worst of all, Nan, in a ravishing pink fluffy affair, was bending over him, her eyes dancing with amusement and mischief. "And how is my little madcap this morning?" she inquired with mock solicitude. This stung Keith to some show of energy, and he got up. The sun was really very bright. A dash of cold water made him feel better. Enthusiasm began to flow back like a tide.
As the surrey swept even with the sidetracked tramp, the bright-eyed girl, seized by some merry, madcap impulse, leaned out toward him with a sweet, dazzling smile, and cried, "Mer-ry Christ-mas!" in a shrill, plaintive treble. Such a thing had not often happened to Whistling Dick, and he felt handicapped in devising the correct response.
Oh, don't deny it, and don't tell polite fibs! I always shock people, and rather enjoy it than otherwise." "Harriet!" her father said, reprovingly. "She is a spoiled madcap, Sir Everard, and I am afraid the fault is mine. She has been everywhere with me in her seventeen years of life freezing amid the snows of Canada and grilling alive under the broiling sun of India.
There is a madcap undertaker who is inimitable at a merry song, but the life of the club, and indeed the prime wit of Little Britain, is bully Wagstaff himself. His ancestors were all wags before him, and he has inherited with the inn a large stock of songs and jokes, which go with it from generation to generation as heirlooms.
They sat up fairly late, for there was a peculiar fascination about the crackling campfire that held them spellbound. They clasped their hands about their knees, and stared into the glowing heart of the fire, as though capable of seeing all manner of fantastic figures dancing there like madcap sprites.
With this whimsical equipage, he had, however, something elegant in his manners and conversation; his countenance was expressive and agreeable, and he spoke with facility if not with modesty; in short, everything about him bore the mark of a young debauchee, who did not crave assistance like a beggar, but as a thoughtless madcap.
Robert threw up his hands in mock terror at the name and departed. 'We are abandoned, cried Rose, flitting herself into the chair again then with a little flash of half irresolute wickedness 'and we are free! Oh, I hope she will be happy! And she caught Agnes wildly round the neck as though she would drown her first words in her last. 'Madcap! cried Agnes struggling.
When Sully had been brought to his knees, she would rush away, with mischief in her eyes, to take the lead in some merry escapade or practical joke, her silvery laughter echoing in some remote palace corridor. A bewildering, alluring bundle of inconsistencies beauty, savant, wit, and madcap such was Henriette d'Entragues when Henri, fresh from his woes, came under the spell of her magnetism.
He heard the teeth of Denver grit, as though the yegg were being driven on into this madcap venture merely by a pride which would not allow him to show less courage even rash courage than his companion. The door opened Denver went inside and was soaked up a shadow among shadows. Terry followed and stepped instantly into the presence of the sleeper. He could tell it plainly.
Eylton's with the children." "Yes sir," and the servant departed to execute her commission. "Arthur!" remonstrated my mother. "Not a word!" said my father gaily. "Children," he continued, "do you wish to go? What says my madcap, Amy?" Madcap Amy, for once in her life, said nothing being too much awed and astonished to reply.
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