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"I only felt rather You do tease, you know, and your eyes twinkle so mischievously that I felt that discretion was the better part of valour." "Well, don't do it again then, that's all, or I may turn rusty and upset the apple-cart. No reason that I know of why I should be ostracised, because I try to help my fellow-creatures. What are you doing over here? Reading? What a waste of time!
"Even golf?" she inquired mischievously. "Even golf, for a beginner and and a woman; you've got the swing in an astonishingly short time. In fact, you've been something of an eye-opener to me," he declared. "If I had been betting, I should have placed the odds about twenty to one against your coming from the West." This Eastern complacency, although it did not lower Mr.
His companion with unusual forbearance let this pass. "Then you have churches at Sebastian?" "Four. I can't say they're crowded; but, while we're liberal-minded on many points, the flocks won't mix. Strikes me as a pity." "It is a pity; there should be only one strong and united church in every place." "And that the right one?" Prescott's eyes twinkled mischievously.
Even Aunt Easter stepped gingerly, though she was wont to affirm, when assisting Miss Jinny in her toilet, an absolute contempt for Ben's commands. "So Ben ordered you out, Mammy?" Virginia would say mischievously. "Order me out! Hugh! think I'se skeered o' him, honey? Reckon I'd frail 'em good ef he cotched hole of me with his black hands.
"For king, for church, for lady fight!" It has all come gloriously true! 'Should not you like to bind on his spurs? I asked somewhat mischievously; but she was serious as she said, 'I am sure he has won them. All the rest of the Fordyces came down afterwards, too anxious to stay at home.
"She used to see you in England, when you were a baby, and if you won't be angry I'll tell you what she said. It was that you were the crossest, ugliest young one she ever saw! There, there; don't set me down so hard!" and the saucy eyes looked mischievously at the proud Englishman, who, truth to say, did place her in the saddle with a little more force than was at all necessary.
Kenwick, taking his cue from the Colonel, had mischievously carried out the principle, by presenting a soldo to each one of the assembly having the slightest pretence to comeliness. Upon which the two Pollys, unable to tolerate such cruel discrimination, had offered prompt reparation to the feelings of the ugly ones.
Olga was leaving the room, had almost reached the door, but at the last words turned, and her face sparkled mischievously. "Beautiful Egypt is acquainted with sphinxes, and should be quick at guessing riddles. Will Cleopatra or Antony answer my conundrum? When my erudition creates a panic, why am I like those who dwelt about Chemmis, when the tragical fate of Osiris was accomplished?" Mr.
'They must, said Albinia, 'you must come to meet your old friend and cousin, she added, mischievously glancing at Maurice, but he did not look inclined to disavow the relationship, and the youth was not a person whom any one would wish to keep at a distance.
"Have you lost all your luggage?" asked the lady, sympathetically. "No," said the young girl; "I had none to lose." And she smiled a little mischievously, as though she knew by instinct that her companion's sympathy would at once degenerate into suspicion! "I don't mean to say that I have not a knapsack," she added, considerately. "I have walked a long distance in fact, from Z ."
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