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Guthrie Brimston; "Our dance, I think," he said, offering her his arm. She took it, perking and preening herself, and began to say something about Mrs. Malcomson in agreement with his last remark: "You are quite right about her," Mr. St. John overheard. "She is always jeering at men. She abuses you wholesale. I've heard her often."
So Kadza said, looking up, 'Is 't seen of Allah, and be the Genii still in their depths? but she constrained herself, peering and perking out her chin, and lifting one foot and the other foot, as on furnaces of fire in the excess of the fury she smothered.
No more pajamas neither, but a clean, white suit every day, and with Rosie perking up like she did, them were real good times for me, and pleasant to look back on; and though I do say it myself, my neighbors liked me and I was respected and looked up to, and I was called the Gilbert Island Consul from the way I was always ready to befriend anybody from there, whether white or native, even once going before the Supreme Court and being complimented by the Chief Justice on behalf of some Nonootch people whose wages were being held back.
But Adam Bede and all his kin might be drownded for what you'd care you'd be perking at the glass the next minute." "Adam Bede drowned?" said Hetty, letting her arms fall and looking rather bewildered, but suspecting that her aunt was as usual exaggerating with a didactic purpose. "No, my dear, no," said Dinah kindly, for Mrs.
"There's been another arrival at Number 23 not five minutes since. Another of our little lot!" "Who?" demanded Perkwite. "Viner!" replied Millwaters. "Came peeping and perking along the street, took a glimpse of the premises and the adjacent purlieus, rang at Number 23, and was let in by the party that came with Miss Wickham! Now, whatever can he be doing there, Mr. Perkwite?"
No moral was everlastingly perking itself in the reader's face, no labored lecture to prove what was self-evident interrupted the progress of the story. There is scarcely an allusion to any of the events which had checkered the novelist's career.
"Did he sell the land and timber below the market price?" inquired Mr. Hardie, perking up, and exhibiting his first symptoms of interest in the discussion. "On that head, sir, my informant, his heir-at-law, gave me no information: nor did I enter into that class of detail.
But the birds had come, punctual as ever, and the bluejays were screaming in the orchard, robins were perking up their heads and tails as they went house-hunting, purple finches in their little red hoods were feasting on the spruce buds, and the faithful chip birds chirped gayly on the grapevine trellis where they had lived all winter, warming their little gray breasts against the southern side of the house when the sun shone, and hiding under the evergreen boughs when the snow fell.
Pete was making for the door, when he looked down and said, "What's this, at all? Down, Dempster, down!" The dog had came trotting into the hall as Pete was going out. He was perking up his big ears and wagging his stump of a tail in front of him. "My dog, ma'am? Yes, ma'am, and like its master in some ways.
But a bird is better. I talked to Dickey to-day and he twittered back. He has such a cute way of perking his little head to one side just as knowing as you please, and he acts exactly as if he were considering whether he should answer 'yes' or no' to what I say, and then it is such fun to watch him smooth down his feathers.
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