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Helen May ripped a page with two carbon copies out of the machine, pulled out the carbons and crumpled three sheets of paper into a ball which she threw into a far corner. "Gee, but you're pecky to-day! You act like an extra slammed into a sob lead and gettin' up stage about it. I wish that long-worded hide had never showed up with his soiled package of nut science.
I have sold you my birthright, dear boy, for a mess of pottage a mere mess of pottage a paltry two hundred and fifty dollars." Ikey turned pale. "Pecky!" he cried, "who vas der fool mans und vat he means apoudt der dwo huntered und feefty tollars, hey?" "Well may you call me a fool, Ikey; I can't deny it. I can't even lift my voice in protest.
"Oh, I've got the best joke on Pecky!" she gurgled, before Agony had had a chance to broach the subject herself. "Yes?" said Agony. "Did you know," confided Bengal, with a fresh burst of giggles, "that Pecky shaves?" Then, as Agony gave a little incredulous exclamation, she hastened on. "Really she does, her whole chin, with a razor, every morning. I found it out a couple of days ago.
Don't you really feel a little nervous, Katherine?" "Not in the least," I said. "I suppose I ought to be, according to traditions, but I never felt less flustered in my life." When Bessie brought up Gus Sinclair's card Alicia dropped a pecky little kiss on my cheek, and pushed me toward the door. I went down calmly, although I'll admit that my heart was beating wildly.
"And so you shall," cried Lady Warburton, and she actually stooped to kiss him, and then Dorothy, rather 'pecky' kisses, perhaps, but very genuine kisses notwithstanding. "Richard," she said, giving me her hand, "we shall come down to your wonderful house all three of us next week, so be prepared now be off both of you." "Then you forgive me, Aunt?" asked Lisbeth, hesitating.
"You're such a good mimic no " she broke off decidely, "you have to be Dr. Grayson, of course, because you can play men's parts so beautifully." She looked from one to the other inquiringly. Her eye fell upon Bengal Virden. "Bengal, dear " Bengal looked up with a jerk and a grimace of distaste. "I wouldn't be Pecky for a thousand dollars," she declared flatly. "I hate her, I tell you."
"I'm not going to stay here and be insulted any longer. It'll serve them right to do without my services as councilor for the rest of the summer. I'll just leave a note for Mrs. Grayson and slip out quietly with you." When the expedition returned the following day both Pecky and Monty were gone.
You always have known, or Martha has, that nobody can have everything just as they want it, and people will be pecky sometimes, and there will come down days as well as up ones.
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