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And some empty-headed heiress goes mincing into the Metropolitan, on a Caruso night, very proud and peacocky over her new ermine coat, without ever dreaming it's a patchwork of animal sufferings that is keeping her fat body warm, and that she's trying to make herself beautiful in a hundred tragedies of the wild. If women only thought of these things!
And perhaps Sandal thought the hyperbole a compliment; for he smiled a little, and walked away, with what his wife privately called "a peacocky air," saying something about "Greek meeting Greek" as he did so. Mrs. Sandal did not in the least understand him: she wondered a little over the remark, and then dismissed it as "some of the squire's foolishness."
Colonel Harley, as Raymond termed it, was "extremely peacocky." He wore his most gorgeous raiment and in addition he was clothed about with vanity. Already he was whispering in the ear of Mrs. Markham, who had renewed her freshness, her youth and her liveliness. "If I were General Markham," said Raymond cynically, "I'd detail a guard of my most faithful soldiers to stand about my wife."
"'And you may wait five years longer, for there are others besides you, says she, as peacocky as any thing, 'but you'll get it; and wi' that, she laid her whip across her mare in a way as made me feel it were across my face, and went away so quick I couldn't get another word in. But women will hev t' last word, if they die for 't."
Their father sells it too, but he's got forehanded an' can do it by the gross, an' so they toss their heads an' set a whole garden full o' flowers a' shakin' upan' down. They're allers more peacocky in their minds after they git their spring bunnets.
The peacocky scarf gave out glittering lights of blue and green. She was tired and there were shadows under her eyes. He came at once to his proposition. "I am thinking of going to France, Emily. If I do, can you stay with Jean?" She turned her startled gaze upon him. "To France? Why?" He told her. "They have been writing to me for weeks, and now the moment for my decision has come.
"Your father told us you had been scrapping. But he told us why. I'd gladly wear all your cuts and bruises if I could do anything that would make my father look as peacocky as yours did. He strutted about proper. I never saw anyone look prouder." "Did he say he was proud of me?" marveled Freckles. "He didn't need to," answered the Angel. "He was radiating pride from every pore.
And afterwards Noël seemed very peacocky about something, but he would not say what, and Archibald was grinning in a way Oswald would have liked to pound his head for. Then, quite suddenly, the peaceable quietness of that happy Blackheath home was brought to a close by screams.
"The peacocky one oh, yes, Daddy." Jean danced back to the telephone. Derry was delighted to include Miss Bridges. "Bring a dozen if you wish." "I don't want a dozen. I want just Daddy and Emily." "And me?" "Of course silly " Laughter singing along the wire. "May I come now?" "I have to change my dress." "In an hour, then?" "Yes." "I can't really believe that we are going together!" "Together "
"So he is, and that makes matters worse, for his grandson, Sirajuddaula, who'll probably succeed him, is no better than a tiger. He lives at Murshidabad, about one hundred miles up the river. He's a vain, peacocky, empty-headed youth, and as soon as the breath is out of his granddad's body he'll want to try his wings and take a peck or two at us.
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