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"I can't seem to recollect asking that lady for help, anyway," he summed up before he dismissed the subject from his mind altogether. "I was trying to help her; it sure takes a woman to twist things around so they point backwards!" He turned and glanced pityingly at Rambler, watching him with ears perked forward inquiringly.
All this time he had been feeling the stuff of my jacket, smoothing my hands, looking at my boots, and generally, in the intervals of his speech, showing a childish pleasure in the presence of a fellow-creature. But at my last words he perked up into a kind of startled slyness. "If ever you get aboard again, says you?" he repeated. "Why, now, who's to hinder you?" "Not you, I know," was my reply.
With some such inquiry in his thoughts, Gruff and Glum, stricken by so sudden an interest that he perked his neck and looked over the intervening people, as if he were trying to stand on tiptoe with his two wooden legs, took an observation of R. W. There was no 'first' in the case, Gruff and Glum made out; the cherubic parent was bearing down and crowding on direct for Greenwich church, to see his relations.
We were willing to take your father's word that 'e 'ad n't done anything wrong and we were willing to 'elp 'im to the limit." "You did it, Harry." "We tried to " He ceased and perked his head toward the bottom of the shaft, listening intently. "Did n't you 'ear something?" "I thought so. Like a woman's voice." "Listen there it is again!"
The lamps were extinguished, and in her hand was the glory of the Serpent Jewel, no other light save it in the vaulted chamber. So the old miser perked his chin and brows, and cried wondering, 'I know it, this Jewel, O my mistress. She turned to the Vizier, and said, lifting the red gloom of the Jewel on him, 'And thou? Aswarak ate his under-lip.
His tightness made his fatness elastic; he looked wound up for a dance, and could hardly hold on a leg; but the presentation of a creature in a battered hat and soiled garments, carrying a tattered knapsack half slung, lank and with disorderly locks, as the Earl of Fleetwood's friend the friend of the wealthiest nobleman of Great Britain! fixed him in a perked attitude of inquiry that exhausted interrogatives.
Dodd, "the young fireman, who went and saved my husband, was my own son, my Edward; my hero; oh, I am a happy wife, a proud mother." She could say no more for tears of joy, and while she wept deliciously, Mrs. Archbold cried too, and so invigorated and refreshed her cunning, and presently she perked up and told Mrs.
It was "Mama Joy," yellow-haired, extremely blue-eyed, and full-figured, who made his coffee and gave him delicious things to eat things which he failed properly to appreciate, because he ate with his ears perked to catch the faintest sound of another woman's steps and with his eyes turning constantly from door to window.
She snapped her dark head, perked it as might a puzzled wren. "Certainly, more pepper!" she murmured. A world once considered of enduring stability had crashed fearsomely about the ears of Winona Penniman and Wilbur Cowan. After this no support was to be trusted, however seemingly stout. Old foundations had crumbled, old institutions perished, the walls of Time itself lay wrecked.
Who, in these enlightened days, would trust his business to such a practitioner? I perked up considerably, believing that my aged imbecile was going to be of real service to me. "Yes, he were a rare wild one, he were," said my ancient friend with excitement. "I can remember him as well as if it was yesterday, at Tiverford races there was races at Tiverford in those days, and gentlemen jocks.
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