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The rapture was all gone from Attwater's countenance; the dark apostle had disappeared; and in his place there stood an easy, sneering gentleman, who took off his hat and bowed. It was pertly done, and the blood burned in Herrick's face. "What do you mean by that?" he cried. "Well, shall we go back to the house?" said Attwater. "Our guests will soon be due."
What shall I call you?" he inquired, with masculine and dazed bluntness. "Catia. It is ever so much prettier; Catie is so babyish," she urged him. "But, if it is your name?" he urged in return. Her retort came with unexpected pith and promptness. Moreover, it struck home. "So is the Baptist your church," she answered pertly. "I guess I have a right to change, as well as you." Mrs.
A quiet, weary little woman, who lived in a bed-sitting room off the Tottenham Court Road, and who had a husband in a lunatic asylum, did our "Cooking Column," "Hints on Education" we were full of hints, and a page and a half of "Fashionable Intelligence," written in the pertly personal style which even yet has not altogether disappeared, so I am informed, from modern journalism: "I must tell you about the divine frock I wore at 'Glorious Goodwood' last week.
I should not hesitate for a moment, after what you have done, to leave you here and drive back alone." "You might not hesitate, providing you could get me out of the carriage," replied Jim, pertly; "but I might have something to say if you should attempt any interference." "Look here, Mr.
Mary Halloran goes and comes when she pleases." "Mary Halloran is in the street a great deal too much. I am far from wishing to see you imitate her example." "But what harm is there in it, mother?" "A great deal, Jane. It gives idle habits, and makes the mind dissatisfied with the more sober duties of life." "I am too young for the sober duties of life," said Jane, rather pertly.
So Big Lion sent for the little hare, and asked him what he meant by talking like that. The little hare saw that there was no use trying to hide it, so he answered pertly, 'It was I who drank the water, but I made them think it was the rabbit. Then he turned and ran as fast as he could, with all the other beasts pursuing him.
She may not have known that Rosa's Creole skin was at a wretched disadvantage, as seen against the green silk background; but others noticed it, and thought how few complexions were comparable to the wearer's. She had the faculty of converting into a foil nearly every woman who approached her. "Thank you! So I am pimento, am I?" queried Rosa, pertly.
However, zeal is too rare a thing for me to discourage it. I must make an example. Hy, you young woman: I dare say you are no worse than the rest, but you are the one that is found out; so you must pack up your clothes and begone." "Not without a month's warning, or a month's wage, sir, it you please," said the dairymaid, pertly.
Cunningham. "Name, please?" she parroted pertly, and pressed a button in the switchboard before her. Presently she reached for the powder-puff again. "Says to come right in. Door 't end o' the hall." Kirby entered. A man sat at a desk telephoning. He was smooth-shaven and rather heavy-set, a year or two beyond thirty, with thinning hair on the top of his head.
He was little and inconspicuous in shades of brown, with tail stuck pertly up, wren fashion, foraging among the dead leaves and on old logs, entirely unconscious that he was one of the three distinguished singers of the wood; none but the hermit thrush and the veery being comparable to him.
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