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Pray, how is it you pretty lasses find employment for the winter" "How?" cried she, pertly, "why, the same as for the summer!" And pleased with her own readiness at repartee, without feeling the ignorance it betrayed, she tript lightly on. Immediately after the schoolmaster mentioned by the white domino advanced to Cecilia.
"She sings much better than you do Grace," said Rose pertly. "Don't be rude, Rose," replied Grace, haughtily, "Miss Leicester will have some trouble with you I imagine," then thanking Isabel, she left the room excessively annoyed with Rose. The lessons proceeded, and Isabel thought that Alice and Rose must alter their manners greatly before she could take any interest in teaching them.
"Knowing what Jack Poindexter does of human nature," her husband had once said, "it's mighty fine in him to be so kind and forgiving. You ought to like him better, Belle." "And qualify myself to be forgiven," said the lady pertly. "I don't see what you're driving at, Belle; I give it up," had responded the puzzled husband. Mrs.
"I have got a room all furnished for you, and I've got a situation as second waiter at a hotel." "No, I thank you!" replied Chloe, pertly. "I'm going to stay where I am." I was not a little surprised to hear her make this answer, for I supposed she would follow the fortunes of her husband, whatever they were.
"You're up to some new mischief, Ruby Harper, I'll venture, or you would never be so quiet all at once. I know you. Now do be a good girl, and don't keep worrying your poor ma so about you." "Never you mind what I am going to do," answered Ruby, pertly, and just then Ann saw that her cookies were missing. "Well, where on earth are all my cookies?" she exclaimed.
There were squirrels, gray and red, and chipmunks, who sat up pertly on a post, with two little paws laid upon their heart in theatrical attitude, as who should say, "Be still, my heart," while they looked the country over to see if any lurking member of the human family were about.
"Why, my packing a gun when I'm in bad company," said Pan. "Pretty strong talk, cowboy, west of the Rockies.... I'm Matthews, the town marshal." "I knew that, and I'm right glad to meet you," rejoined Pan pertly. He made no move to meet the half-proffered hand, and his steady gaze disconcerted the marshal. Another man came briskly up, carrying papers in his hand. "Are you the agent, Mr.
She was small, but, remembering the fourteen-year-old wife of the shopkeeper, he felt that, for all her childish voice and features, she was a grown woman, and a sudden shyness took hold of him. But she looked pertly in his face, stood her guitar upright before her, and put her hands behind her back as she leaned saucily against the wall and shrugged her shoulders.
I'se gwine ter quit I is!" "You'se gwine ter quit you is! I speck! I'm done heerd dat talk eber day dis month," jeered cook number two. "Ef you quits you kin jest bet yer bottom dollar I aint a-gwine to stay. Got more'n I kin do now I is." "An' what yer reckon dis chile's goin' ter do den?" pertly chimed in the mulatto kitchen maid.
Ah, ha! you will find it pleasanter to live here alone with him, than with your beautiful Egyptian." "My mistress is too beautiful for some people's fancy, and I have never asked any one to look out a husband for me," she answered pertly. "I can find one without your help either." "Who could doubt it? Such a pretty face is as good a bait for a man, as a worm for a fish."
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