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He ain't perked up much yet, 'cording to reports. But Miss Lowe little Miss Cyn ain't come home! I'm tumble feared lest she went back again for something, and " Miss Lowe got up from her chair and cautiously motioned Tod to the doorway of the lean-to. "Look!" she whispered. Greeley expected still to see Martin, but instead he saw the delicate, sleeping face of Cynthia Walden.
They perked up instantly, however, when they saw us, turning towards us with a movement that looked concerted and was in itself a question. Frank Jervaise, striding on ahead of me, answered at once, with a gloomy shake of his head. "Isn't she there?" his mother asked. And "Hasn't she been there at all?" she persisted when Frank returned a morose negative. "Who did you see?" put in young Turnbull.
Old Dibs perked up at this and cottoned to the idea tremendous; and the graveyard soon become his regular stamping ground, except when there was a funeral. He rigged up a little shelter for himself in the center, with a music stand I made for him out of scantling; and often he took his lunch in his pocket and spent the whole day.
"Y'are welcome, y'are welcome; and so is your Eh! Why it's our Jael. 'Tis no avail to hide thy face, thou jade; I know every bit o' thee." And Patty had her out of the gig in a moment, and there was a cuddling match it did one good to see. Henry perked up for a moment and offered a suggestion. "Some of that ought to come my way, for bringing her here."
It was with a heavy heart that the spinster entered the palace, and it was with the courage born of desperation that she perked up and smiled on the gay crowd she found within. The episcopalian residence, situate some distance from the city, was a mediæval building, enshrined in the remnant of a royal chase, and in its perfect quiet and loneliness resembled the palace of the Sleeping Beauty.
Gorgeous it was, with many soft colors blended into unnamable tints and translucencies, and the songs of birds in the thickets as they passed. Smoky, Sunfish and Stopper walked briskly, ears perked forward, heads up, eyes eager to catch the familiar landmarks that meant home.
When Surry gave over rolling with his tongue the little wheel in his bit, and with lifted head and eyes alert perked his ears forward towards the hill they had just crossed, he slipped the hackamore hurriedly into place and turned to his friend. "You climb on to Surry, and we'll pull out," he said shortly.
"The old man, too, perked up amazingly on the way. He passed the cigars, and says to me once, quite chipper, out of a cloud of smoke, 'Mr. O'Day, somehow I think the Republic Company will not give me the much trouble. Guard well the gripvalise of the money, Mr. O'Day, for that it must be returned to them that it belongs when we finish to arrive.
If her grown-up cake-making is done as conscientiously as was that job, she'll be a wonderful pastry cook! I discovered the mischief while it was still fresh, and out of the wreckage salvaged a few brave seedlings. They pouted awhile before they took heart, and root, but finally perked up again.
She flicked the pony's ears with her whip by way of introducing the animal, and Helmsley clambered up into the cart beside her. "That's a nice little dog you've got," she remarked, as Charlie perked his small black nose out from under his protector's arm to sniff the subtle atmosphere of what was going to happen next. "He's a real beauty!"
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