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Updated: June 11, 2025
She had always, up to this time, been dressed in sad colors, as was fitting, doubtless, for a forlorn orphan; but happening one day to see a small negro girl peacocking round in a flaming scarlet petticoat, she struck for bright colors in her own apparel, and carried her point at last.
Highly conceited of their personal appearance, they are for ever cutting their hair in different fashions, to surprise a friend; or if a rag be thrown away, they will all in turn fight for it to bind on their heads, then on their loins or spears, peacocking about with it before their admiring comrades. Even strange feathers or skins are treated by them in the same way.
For Charlotte had come in with a platter, and Nan turned about, peacocking before her unsurprised gaze. "I found it up attic." "It's real pretty," said Charlotte. "Them scant things they're wearin' now, they ain't to be thought of in the same day." It was a game she knew she was to have entirely alone.
My only other things were in the wash, and I had repaired myself so far as circumstances allowed. The Marshal of the Court returned with the message that His Royal Highness would receive me at once "as a soldier." I trotted obediently off with him. We arrived at the Palace. It was a full-dress day, and the Montenegrins never let slip an occasion for peacocking. The situation pleased me immensely.
He didn't want to go. He loathed the very thought of it. Every flinching nerve in him protested. A masked ball a masked ball at a Cairo hotel! Grimacing through peep-holes, self-conscious advances, flirtations ending in giggles! Tourists as nuns, tourists as Turks, tourists as God-knows-what, all preening and peacocking!
"Am I dreaming?" said his voice in her ear, "or is this my chum? I'm almost afraid to speak to you!" "You look awfully nice, Jimps," she returned under her breath. "Yes, isn't it absurd for me to be peacocking like this? But they made me do it." "You take my breath away." "Look at Jean," she whispered. "Isn't she the loveliest thing you ever saw in your life?" He looked.
"I shall certainly never arrive at it by my unassisted genius," I reply, yawning. "Ah! there is M. Dom going out riding! Alas! never again shall I see him mount that peacocking steed!" "It is 'Adieu!" says my companion, blurting it out in a rage, seeing that I will not be interested in or excited by it. "Adieu!" repeat I, standing with my mouth wide open, looking perfectly blank. "How?"
Why should I want my cook to go peacocking about with a pink parasol, making a fool of herself, and bringing disgrace on the house? Why should I want Kate to be incapacitated from doing her proper work?" "I think," said Luke, "I must go and see it." "Go and see Kate's knee? Don't be indelicate." "No, I meant the parasol.
'You be a plaguey pair, you b'ys! was the unfailing greeting of Binks, when he encountered Geoff and Alick Carnegy. 'Come, you shut up, Binks! You surely would not have us a couple of mincing girls peacocking round in this fashion, would you now? And the captain's boys affectedly pirouetted up and down on the shingle below the low wall of the Vicarage garden, laughing boisterously the while.
Suddenly she remembered how Richard delighted in her, and what pretty things he found to say about her without putting himself out, and how he was always sorry to leave her and sometimes came back for another kiss, and she felt enormously proud of being the dispenser of such satisfactions, and began to put on her hat and coat with peacocking gestures and recklessly light-minded glances in the mirror.
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