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Grace was quite a different figure that day from any she had presented before, wearing a perky little highland bonnet with an eagle feather in it, and a skirt and blouse of the same plaid. His eyes announced his approval as they met, leaning to shake hands from the saddle. Immediately he brought himself to task for his late admission that she was inferior in the eyes to Vesta.
In appearance, he had the likeness of a fallen parson. Carling and Victor crossed looks that were questions carrying their answers. Nataly's eyes followed Victor's. 'Who is the man? she said; and she got no reply beyond a perky sparkle in his gaze. Others were noticing the man, who was trying to pass by Skepsey, now on his right side, now on his left.
When this barge-load of unexpected money came to him and his pink but perky partner, George, and they hied themselves to this clump of outhouses called Atascosa City, you know what happened to them. They had money to buy anything they wanted; but they didn't know what to want. Their ideas of spendthriftiness were limited to three whisky, saddles, and gold watches.
You let him get among the chickens on the manure pile behind the barn, with his wings held down stiff, his tail feathers stuck up starchy, his wish-bone poked out perky, and gobbling for room to show his fancy steps, and he's a mighty impressive fowl. But a small boy with a rock and a good aim can make him run a mile.
As he reeled Archie rushed in, gripping his throat and falling upon him. The breath went out of the man as he struck the ground, and Archie jumped up and left him to Congdon and Leary. Perky was kneeling beside the Governor tearing open his shirt which was already crimson from a fast-flowing wound. "He's hurt bad; it's the end of him!" muttered the old man helplessly.
Yes, "perky" was the word, thought Laurie. "Mr. Baxter here is interested in Spiritualism rump steak, waiter, and pint of bitter and I told him you were the man for him." Laurie interiorly drew in his horns. "A er an experimenter?" asked the old man, with courteous interest, his eyes giving a quick gleam beneath his glasses. "A little." "Yes. Most dangerous most dangerous.... And any success, Mr.
Not very complimentary to Dick, but he doesn't seem to mind, and is enjoying himself immensely in his own deliciously, impertinently, perky way. Somehow or other he has induced her to be more or less engaged to him, a temporary arrangement, I understand, but pleasing to him and convenient to me.
Mellor had very properly attempted to stop the disorderly discussion of the closure; but Mr. Chamberlain was not in the mood to respect the authority of the chair or the traditions of the House of Commons, and audaciously, shamelessly with a perky self-satisfaction painful to witness he proceeded to violate the ruling of the chair to trample on the order of Parliament, and to flout the Chairman.
At that time he often waltzed in a drawing-room, the windows of which looked upon the spray of the fountain at which Ruth Pinch loved to gaze when its jet resembled a wagoner's whip. How all old and precious things pass away! The dear old 'wagoner's whip' has been replaced by a pert, perky squirt that will never stir the heart or brain of a future Ruth.
But for being a Denyer, she might have been content to say that she studied history, and in that case her life might also have been solaced by the companionship of readable books; but, as modernism would have it, she could not be content to base her historical inquiries on anything less than strata of geology and biological elements, with the result that she toiled day by day at perky little primers and compendia, and only learnt one chapter that it might be driven out of her head by the next.
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