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And I suppose that most sensible men, in my dilemma, would at least have nursed or played upon good-will so lucky and so enduring. "And where have you got this gold?" I asked him, in a low voice so promising that he instantly lowered his, and his eyes twinkled naughtily into mine. "In the old tunnel that runs from this place nearly to the sea," said he.

"And her didn't cwy," declared the baby, turning a pair of indignantly reproachful eyes upon Joey, "her danced, her didn't cwy." "Ain't yer goin' to dance fer us now?" coaxed Mr. Tomlin. "No," said the Angel naughtily, then relenting at sight of her Tomlin's face, "her'll sing, her won't dance." The pleasant gentleman, thinking, perhaps to please Mr.

In the first object there had been very fair success; but the taste for art was unquenchable, and it had been the fashion of the elder half of the Merrifield family to make a joke, and profess to be extremely bored, when 'Fangs, as they naughtily called him among themselves, used to arrive from leave, armed with catalogues, or come in with his drawings to find sympathy in his colonel's wife.

She could not believe that distant populations could be at once so pathetically and so naughtily human as the population in and around Moze. If Audrey disdained Miss Ingate, it was only because Miss Ingate was neither young nor fair nor the proprietress of some man, and because people made out that she was peculiar.

Before you fairly start this story I should like to give you just a word of warning. If you imagine you are going to read of model children, with perhaps; a naughtily inclined one to point a moral, you had better lay down the book immediately and betake yourself to 'Sandford and Merton' or similar standard juvenile works.

When I was small she gave me chocolates, tin soldiers, pop-guns warranted to endanger my brothers' and sisters' eyesight. And now, in a thousand ways, conscious and unconscious," he laughed quietly, naughtily, the words running over each other in the rapidity of his speech "she gives me such a blessed good conceit of myself!"

Just when he was about to begin, she made her father laugh by crying out in a rapture, 'Oh! Delphica! For she was naughtily aware of Dudley Sowerby's distaste for the story and disgust with the damsel Delphica. Nesta gave Dr.

"I wish you weren't dead," Alicia told him regretfully. "Your taste in clothes is above all praise, though I fancy you were somewhat too vain of your legs, sir. I never knew before that men had legs like that, did you, Sophy?" "I take no pleasure in the legs of a man." I quoted the Psalmist acridly enough. "Don't pay any attention to Sophy," Alicia advised the portrait, naughtily.

Fane-Smith, who was a well-meaning though narrow man, sighed again; it was always very painful to him to listen to views which did not coincide with his own. "Well," he said at length, "there is, after all, the hope that you may convert him." "I hope you do not want me to turn into one of those hateful little prigs, who go about lamenting over their unregenerate parents," said Erica, naughtily.

"I will shoot the creature!" repeated Ludwig, savagely. The young girl withdrew trembling to the stern of the boat, and said nothing further; she even strove to suppress her nervous terror, like a child that has behaved naughtily.

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