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That's why they couldn't get away," said Bessie. "Wasn't that lucky?" Dolly snorted. "Luck nothing!" she said, perkily. "I swam out with a rope, and they never saw me! I was there, diving up and down, for half an hour. I thought they'd have a lovely time getting it clear when the knots I made had swollen up!" "Yes, it was Dolly who saved the day," said Eleanor.
Morton, "have you er " and he indicated Laurie. "No...? Baxter, let me introduce Mr. Cathcart." For a moment the name meant nothing to Laurie; then he remembered; but his rising suspicions were quelled instantly by his friend's next remark. "By the way, Cathcart, we were talking of you a week or two ago." "Indeed! I am flattered," said the old man perkily.
"Hear, hear!" said Gourlay, and the meeting was unkind enough to laugh. "Order, order!" cried Wilson perkily. "As I was saying when I was grossly interrupted," fumed the Provost, "there's no needcessity for me to make a loang speech. I had thoat we were a-all agreed on the desirabeelity of the rileway coming in our direction. I had thoat, after the able I must say the very able speech of Mr.
Or sometimes she would demurely assure him that she was, " a girl who's pulling roses to sell the man who makes perfume " She would snatch up her needlework basket and swing it at her hip and pull the roses down from the mantelpiece vases and all the while she would whistle, with her dear little chin perkily lifted and her sparkling eyes watching to see if the Major was listening.
The small handmaiden was doubled up on the floor, with her face muffled in her gingham apron and her long braids of red hair hanging with limp straightness down her back. When Charlotta was in good spirits, they always hung perkily over each shoulder, tied up with enormous bows of sky-blue ribbon.
Why, what ever possesses you to call him 'Fat Father, I say? Can't you see how mad it makes him?" "Why, of course it made him mad!" said the Little Girl with plainly reviving interest. Thrilled with astonishment at the White Linen Nurse's apparent stupidity she straightened up perkily with inordinately sparkling eyes. "Why, of course it makes him mad!" she explained briskly. "That's why I do it!
Sir Meeson Corby produced an aspect of the word 'if, so perkily, that the dejected Captain Abrane laughed outright and gave him double reason to fret for Lord Fleetwood's arrival, by saying: 'If he hangs off much longer, I shall have to come on you for another fifty.
Florence Ricks was a radiant vision in a filmy pink breakfast gown and cap, and as she smiled perkily at Cappy he returned her bright look with one a trifle sad and yearning. "Florence, my love," said Cappy gently, "have you, by any chance, talked with that big, two-fisted sailor of yours within the past twelve hours?"
I'll sneak home so that your aunt won't see me, and no one need be a bit the wiser." "You'll be sun-struck!" he said in dismay. "Take care you don't get daughter-struck," I said perkily, turning to flee, for it had suddenly dawned upon me that my thin wet clothing was outlining my figure rather too clearly for propriety. By a circuitous way I managed to reach my bedroom unseen.
Sir Meeson Corby produced an aspect of the word 'if, so perkily, that the dejected Captain Abrane laughed outright and gave him double reason to fret for Lord Fleetwood's arrival, by saying: 'If he hangs off much longer, I shall have to come on you for another fifty.
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