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She was over seventy, and possessed 80 pounds a year a dainty, witty, amusing Irish lady, with twinkling eyes and a pernicketty strong will, and a brogue she transferred deliciously into her broken French. She loved the children, yet did not win their love in return, because they stood in awe of her sarcastic criticisms.
Margery scares them off when they come round bringing him little things, and Harry's a bit pernicketty. His father was a duke or something in the old country." "Mrs. Margery?" said Deringham inquiringly. "Yes," said the other. "She's not here just now, but she keeps the house for him. I help round and do the cooking." Deringham, who could adapt himself to his surroundings, nodded.
In his ordinary John was very pernicketty about his clothing, always with the most shining of buckles and buttons, always trim in plaiding, snod and spruce about his hair and his hosen, a real dandy who never overdid the part, but just contrived to be pleasant to the eye of women, who, in my observation, have, the most sensible of them, as great a contempt for the mere fop as they have for the sloven.
"It's a little difficult to define, but I certainly don't mean pernicketty. Of course, there is a fastidiousness which makes one shrink from unpleasant things, but Harry's is the other kind. It impels him to do them every now and then." Agatha made no answer.
I am pernicketty in a few ways and hate tobacco ash on my carpet; every room in the house is an arsenal of ash trays. In normal mood Adrian punctiliously observed the little laws of the establishment. This scattering of cigar ash was a sign of spiritual convulsion. "Have you explained the matter to Doria?" I asked.
'A' freens! said Merton, as if horrified by the austere reception of his cordial advances. 'Wha's gaumlin'? We mauna play, billies, till he's gane. An unco pernicketty auld carl, thon ane, he remarked, sotto voce. 'But there's naething in the Company's by-laws again refraishments, Merton added.
They're sort of pernicketty cattle to manage; I'd sooner take to horses; and if one happens to die, you don't feel so cut up like as if it was a wife. Now there's Dan Blake. Marrying's been enough sight more worryment to him than comfort. I've figgured up the pros and cons close, and them that keeps single don't age near as fast as the married ones.
"It's a little difficult to define, but I certainly don't mean pernicketty. Of course, there is a fastidiousness which makes one shrink from unpleasant things, but Harry's is the other kind. It impels him to do them every now and then." Agatha made no answer.
How I do hate that pernicketty French! Let's see let's see. Oh yes, here it all is. Ask pardon for two poor prisoners trying to escape um, um, um years of misery. Generous Englishman some day remerciments. Ah, it's all scribbled horribly in the dark, I suppose. Oh, he's signed it, though, Pickle. `Des Saix, Comte. Oh, there are two of them, then.
"'Pears like yo's makin' things fine enough for a weddin'," growled Mancy. "Well, now, look here, last night you thought the things I had for my evening company were too plain, and now you're grumbling because they're too fancy." "Laws, honey, can't you see no diffunce 'tween plain bread and butter and a lot of pernicketty gimcracks that never turns out right nohow?"
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