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Lady Wondershoot can't always be Lady Bountiful and Earthly Providence of her parish without sometimes meeting a responsibility, you know." "The mischief's done," Lady Wondershoot decided when they told her with expurgations what Redwood had said. "The mischief's done," echoed the Vicar. Though indeed as a matter of fact the mischief was only beginning.
"Don't be so ridiculous, James!" said Bella, peevishly. "What's the good of going back, to be too late for everything. The mischief's done now." "Oh, let's go in!" advised Ada; "the amusements and things will be just as nice indoors nicer on a chilly evening like this;" and Leander seconded her heartily.
"Ah!" rejoined Peter, wiping his hand with his pocket handkerchief. "But, Lord! what scandal there be in the world!" "'Though slander's breath may raise a storm, It quickly does decay!" muttered Peter. "Very well, very true; sensible verses those," said the Corporal, approvingly; "and yet mischief's often done before the amends come.
Everything loose had been carried away by the waves which had swept the decks, but the masts and funnel were standing comparatively uninjured, and as far as they could make out, scarcely any injury had been done to the structure of the ship. "The mischief's all below, sir, I expect," said the old sailor. "We shall find she's got a lot of water in her hold."
"Of course with those black mask things over your faces I couldn't recognize you again, even if I was put in the box; but, my good chaps, your steamer's known, there's no getting over that. Much better clear out before any mischief's done, and own up you've made a mistake." White turned on the man with a sudden fury.
"I'm hanged if I know what's the matter with you to-night, Sam. You seem to have unhitched your brain and left it in the umbrella stand. You hadn't a word to say for yourself all through dinner. You might have been a Trappist monk. And with that delightful girl Miss Bennett, there, too. She must have thought you infernally dull." "I'm sorry." "It's no good being sorry now. The mischief's done.
'Dave, old man, don't ask me any questions yet as to how it's to be done, but I believe that before this World's Fair closes you and I will have gotten Delbras and Bob out of mischief's way, settled the brunette problem, and thrown light on the diamond robbery. 'And how about that lost young Englishman, Sir Carroll Rae, and missing Gerald Trent? I turned and faced him.
An' now, when the mischief's done an' the tender dear one rash from head to foot" Mrs Jago mopped her eyes with the edge of her apron "what better can 'ee say than thank God the schools be closed! For my part, I wish He'd close an' roll the great stone o' Daniel agenst 'em for ever and ever!"
Pyecroft I heard spurs clink passed me. Then the jersey voice said: "What the mischief's that?" "'Asn't the visitor come aboard, Sir? 'E told me he'd purposely abandoned the Pedantic for the pleasure of the trip with us. Told me he was official correspondent for the Times; an' I know he's littery by the way 'e tries to talk Navy-talk. Haven't you seen 'im, Sir?"
When matters came to this point, the gipsies, without scruple, entered upon measures of retaliation. Ellangowan's hen-roosts were plundered, his linen stolen from the lines or bleaching-ground, his fishings poached, his dogs kidnapped, his growing trees cut or barked. Much petty mischief was done, and some evidently for the mischief's sake.
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