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You know I have an interest in you, George, and always will have, and I wouldn't like that spiteful little black-haired minx to have got you, and I am very glad she refused you, although why she did so I cannot for the life of me imagine." "It must be hard for you to comprehend why she refused me, now that I am a partner in the firm." Blanche looked down upon the deck, and did not answer.
When barks are intoxicated, they dance as men do; and that one, in truth, had her belly full of liquor. Ah, the slut! What a minx! She festooned over the ocean with the air of a sot who could no longer recognize his home. And Coqueville laughed, and fumed, the Mahés found it funny, while the Floches found it disgusting.
He was now at the very fullest tide of his prosperity; he had everything to offer which mothers wish for their daughters, and which daughters wish for themselves. He had income, rank, name, youth, and talent. Why should he fling his rich treasures at the feet of a proud minx who in taking them swore that she could not love him? Would it not be better for him to recede?
"I didn't mean I was thinking of it then. How could I be?" "Of course you weren't thinking of it. But she was." "Norah? Not she! A child of seventeen!" "I don't mean Norah. I mean Viola." "Viola?" "Yes. You didn't see what the unscrupulous minx was after. She was plotting it and planning it the first time you were at Canterbury.
But watch him, lady, lock him up secure, because I think I know I could whistle him away from you whenever I would back, ma'm, back to me and the Silent Places. And so good-day, ma'm, my best respects!" Saying which, Diana curtseyed again and turned away. "The creature!" exclaimed my aunt. "The minx! The insolent baggage!"
When it arrived Jane came to see me in this room, shut the door, and put her back against it 'There's another of them beastly copper coal-scuttles come! You should have seen her eyes blazing. 'And I should like to know, ma'am, who's going to clean it 'cos I can't. And I just had to promise her it might go dirty." "Lazy minx!" said Meadows, good-humouredly, with his mouth full of tea-cake.
Oh, I have done with her, for if you hold her hands, she would find a way to cheat you with her feet! There! she is a minx, a jade!" "She is lower than a prostitute," said the Baron. "Josepha and Jenny Cadine were in their rights when they were false to us; they make a trade of their charms." "But she, who affects the saint the prude!" said Crevel.
"Then, I tell you, downstairs you go," said Aennchen stiffly. "Is it decided?" Beppo asked. "Then, good-evening. You detestable German girls can't love. One step a smile: another step a kiss. You tit-for-tat minx!
The spinet in the ball-room alcove was tinkling out the overture to a minuet, and she laid the tips of her dainty fingers on the colonel's arm. "This will be ours to walk through, will it not, Colonel Tarleton?" she said, playing the sprightly minx to the very climax of perfection. Then she dipped us a curtsy. "Au revoir, gentlemen.
Lucy paused, then added significantly: "I do not think that she is so very old, and you must admit that she is wonderfully well preserved." "Like a mummy," remarked the Professor absently; then pushed back his chair to add briskly: "What does all this mean, you minx? I know that the woman is all right so far as a woman can be: but her confounded age and her looks and her unexpressed admiration.
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