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"I have met his sort before, and I find that the only way to deal with such people is to leave them very severely alone. He seems to be a bit of a bully, so far as I can make out, but he will have to mind his p's and q's while he is on board this ship, or he will be getting himself into hot water and finding things generally made very unpleasant for him. You are in his service, I suppose?"
We are to be particularly careful to mind our 'P's' and 'Q's' on this visit, for Aunt Sallie wishes us to make a good impression in Washington." Barbara sighed. "I'll try, Ruth," she declared, "but you know what remarkable talent I have for getting into mischief." "Then you are to be specially par-tic-u-lar, Mistress Bab!" Ruth said teasingly.
"Adjutant, order the detail." "Sergeant-Major," said the Adjutant, after a momentary glance at his roster, "send an order to Capt, McGillicuddy, of Co. Q, for a Corporal and five men for fatigue duty, to report at Division Headquarters at 7 to-morrow morning." The Deacon walked toward Co. Q's quarters, and presently saw the Orderly hand the Captain the order from the Colonel.
"Now master Bob, be on your P's and Q's, and find a nice place to spread the royal feast." "I think that you are making yourself queen on this occasion and no mistake," returned the saucy Bob. "Well, I am prime minister you know, so make haste and obey my commands." "Self constituted I fancy," returned Bob with a shrug.
And as far as education was concerned he felt that if he was not quite so brushed up on his A B C's as he was on minding his P's and Q's the result would not be half bad. Unconsciously his attitude toward the world was a composite of the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, the cynical wisdom of Omar Khayyam, and plain and not to be duplicated Yankee pep.
Griselda did not seem to be in any way annoyed by this absence of the usual sign of love, and went on steadily with her great duties. "Nothing," as she told her mother, "had been said about writing, and, therefore, she did not expect it." But the archdeacon was not quite at his ease. "Keep Dumbello up to his p's and q's, you know," a friend of his had whispered to him at his club. By heavens, yes.
Gibney, the latter decided that it would be a cold day, indeed, when his ticket would not constitute a club wherewith to make Scraggs, as Gibney expressed it, "mind his P's and Q's."
"You are doing very well, my dear," said the parson, encouragingly; "you have received only a few lessons, but have mastered the alphabet. I notice that the 'd's' and 'b's' and 'h's' and 'q's' puzzle you a little now and then, but you have got them straight, and it is now time that we took a lesson in spelling." "Oh, I can't do that, Mr.
'Well, he's not exactly married, replied May, laughing; 'but he has a large family. 'May, I will not allow it; it is very wrong of you, indeed, to talk like that 'Now, mother dear, don't get into a passion; where's the harm? The whole country knows it; Violet was talking of it to me only the other day. There isn't a man within a mile of us, so we needn't be on our P's and Q's.
T. after all, thank you not for Joseph! I SAY! she'll need to mind her p's and q's." For Tilly had listened to John explaining to Jinny what he expected of her, what she might and might not do; and had watched Jinny sitting meekly by and saying yes to everything.
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