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"I will bid you good evening," exclaimed Marsac with a dignified bow. "Mam'selle, I hope you are not tired out. You look " A saucy smile went over her face. "Do I look very strange?" pertly. "And I am not tired, but half starved. Good night, Monsieur." "Pani will soon remedy that." The bell was clanging out its six strokes.
Rounders's first act after the rescue was to kiss Miss Stubbs on both cheeks, saying as he did so, "Sally Stubbs, you are the only one of the kind." "Mister Rounders," said she, pertly pushing him back, "none of them liberties with me. I may be foolish enough to go into a cage after you, but I'm not foolish enough to suffer them things."
I remembered her tripping briskly about the dining-room on her high heels, carrying a big trayful of dishes, glancing rather pertly at the spruce travelling men, and contemptuously at the scrubby ones who were so afraid of her that they didn't dare to ask for two kinds of pie. Now it occurred to me that perhaps the sailors, too, might be afraid of Tiny.
"Sir Kay called forth his lady, And bade her to come near: 'Yet dame, if thou be guilty, I pray thee now forbear. "This lady, pertly giggling, With forward step came on, And boldly to the little boy With fearless face is gone. "When she had taken the mantle, With purpose for to wear, It shrunk up to her shoulder, And left her back all bare.
This morn it was winter to him, and in this burning land he talked of snowflakes falling beneath the Yule-tide stars; yea! and when he has spoken pertly to the sexton he needs must go a-carolling: "'There comes a ship far sailing then, St. Michael was the steersman; St. John sate in the horn; Our Lord harped; Our Lady sang, And all the bells of heaven rang."
'Heard you ever anything so strange, neighbour, as yon awful thunder-clap coming close on the malicious words of the brawling Quaker? He ought to have quaked and trembled indeed at the voice of Heaven rebuking his madness. 'But that he did not, mistress, said I, something too pertly, I fear; 'for he bade the people hearken to the voice of God bearing witness against them.
So one cried: "Send along more 'greenbacks, Father Abraham!" The boy was puzzled, but his companion explained that the soldiers wanted their money due. The hearer thought this over for a moment, and then pertly said: "Why don't 'Governor' Chase print some more?" Mr.
While I was busy clearing the desk, with an air of great familiarity he said, "I have had jobs to do here before now, my girl, as your sweetheart there well knows." I humoured his mistake in taking me for my own maid and my servant's sweetheart, and I pertly answered, "Very likely." "Oh, yes, I have," said he; "it was I who repaired the Queen's boxes in this very room."
"But one way must be easier or better than the other, or else they'd all be one kind," argued Peter. "I want to find the easiest way. And I've got a hankering after the Methodists. My Aunt Jane was a Methodist." "Isn't she one still?" asked Felicity pertly. "Well, I don't know exactly. She's dead," said Peter rebukingly. "Do people go on being just the same after they're dead?"
Madison's sallow cheek colored a little, but he did not speak. "Well!" continued Mrs. McGee impatiently. "I don't believe he'd object to your comin' here to see me if you cared." "But I wouldn't care to come, unless he first knew that I had been once engaged to you," said Madison gravely. "Perhaps he might not think as much of that as you do," retorted the woman pertly.
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