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Alfonso Trudgian pertly. "I beg your pardon? the 17th of March, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-five." "Then I'm sorry to interrupt ye, Jose, but since Mr. Roger wants me gone, I have here a will executed by Mr. Stephen on February the 14th last St. Valentine's day. And it reads like a valentine, too.
He asked how many of us were 'lookers. Don't be modest, Amabel. Neither you nor Lucy are out of the running," Beatrice amiably suggested. "Ladies first," commented Amabel, pertly. There was no objection to being supported in one's suspicion that, after all, one was a "looker." "There may be a sort of explanation," Honora put the idea forward somewhat thoughtfully.
Pray, your ladyship, said I, a little too pertly, perhaps, be pleased to ask half a dozen such questions together; because one answer may do for all! Why, bold-face, said she, you'll forget your distance, and bring me to your level before my time. I could no longer refrain tears, but said, Pray your ladyship, let me ask what I have done, to be thus severely treated?
Was this the truth, or after all ought I really to see that at every turn of her speech, by coy bendings of the head, by the dark seductions of dim half-captive locks about her oval temples, and by many an indescribable swaying of the form and of the voice, I was being to speak it brutally challenged? Even in the poetic obscurity of the night I lost all steadiness of eye as I pertly said
He took no notice of her letter, he did not come to the house. "He is too much offended," she said to herself, wondering what form the vengeance she anticipated would take. At length, unable to keep silence any longer on the subject, she questioned Bessie. "I hope Mr. Boult was not very much annoyed at my leaving him on Thursday, Bessie?" "He didn't say he was," said Bessie, pertly. "But was he?
Lee's, and was, in a manner, free of Miss Mohun's house; but he spent much of his leisure time in study, being now able to pay regularly for instruction from the tutor who taught at Mrs. Edgar's school. Maura asked him rather pertly what was the use of troubling himself about Latin and Greek, if he held himself bound to the marble works.
As he moved toward it a tiny yellow bird flew across the room and lit on the floor, watching him pertly and edging cautiously to the plate. It paused with head perked impudently on one side and its bright little eyes fixed on the big dog. Jan kept very still, and the old man, sitting across the room, nodded approvingly when the dog allowed the bird to peck at the plate of food.
The sheep nibbled the grass near him, the jays called pertly, "Shame, shame," a quail piped somewhere on the hillside, and the brook sung a soft, soothing melody that took away at last the sharp edge of his pain, and he sat up and gazed down the valley, bright with the sun and apparently filled with happy and prosperous people. Suddenly a thought seized him.
Once, watching with his head cocked pertly, sparrowlike, on one side, the old man's eyes went to the white-bandaged knuckles of Denny's right hand; once while he waited Old Jerry saw her lift her face saw the big, shoulder-heavy figure fold her in his arms and bend and touch the glory of her hair with his lips while she clung to him, before she turned and went slowly toward the open kitchen door.
"Well, Miss Cressy, as my business with your father to-day was to try to effect a compromise of his boundary claims, perhaps you might accept my services in your own behalf." "Which means," responded the young lady pertly, "the same thing to ME as to Paw. No trespassers but yourself. Thank you, sir."
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