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He was fascinated with the flowers, and continually seeking for an opportunity to devour some of them; while he was doing it he would wear such a roguish smile it was impossible not to believe that he understood the agitation which these abnormal appetites occasioned in his parents.
In the last winter but one, pacing along Cheapside with my accustomed precipitation when I walk westward, a treacherous slide brought me upon my back in an instant. I scrambled up with pain and shame enough yet outwardly trying to face it down, as if nothing had happened when the roguish grin of one of these young wits encountered me.
"Am I standing before the new visitor to Lochias, the architect Claudius Venator of Rome?" "You are standing " replied the Emperor, with a roguish side glance at Antinous. "You have met with a friendly reception to this palace. Like my fathers, who have enjoyed the stewardship of it for centuries, I know how to exercise the sacred duties of hospitality."
One must beat the other in something; and, when one man beats another, democracy ceases and aristocracy begins." "Aristocracy! I don't see that. What do you mean by aristocracy?" "The ascendency of the better man. In a rude State the better man is the stronger; in a corrupt State, perhaps the more roguish; in modern republics the jobbers get the money and the lawyers get the power.
"There will be no boys for you to dance with, dear girls," she told them gently, "as your parents might not approve," then added, with roguish lights in her splendid eyes: "No boys, dear girls, only a few masters to supper in the small dormitory." Hal's misdemeanours were of a less subtle kind.
Minturn had used, during some of their discussions on board the Ivernia. Dorothy shot a roguish glance up at him. "I guess you don't know your Bible very well, do you, Uncle Phillip?" she said, laughing.
"Does, then, any one but the dreamer see a dream?" Judas replied. Thomas sighed gently, and became thoughtful. But Judas smiled contemptuously, and firmly closed his roguish eye, and quickly gave himself up to his mutinous dreams, monstrous ravings, mad phantoms, which rent his bumpy skull to pieces.
When they got out at the station, the carpenter said: "I am sorry you are going; we might have had some good times together." But Madame Tellier replied very sensibly: "Everything has its right time, and we cannot always be enjoying ourselves." And then he had a sudden inspiration: "Look here, I will come and see you at Fecamp next month." And he gave Rosa a roguish and knowing look.
Now, when he said this, there were in the church, among many others, two roguish young fellows, hight one Giovanni del Bragioniera and the other Biagio Pizzini, who, after laughing with one another awhile over Fra Cipolla's relic, took counsel together, for all they were great friends and cronies of his, to play him some trick in the matter of the feather in question.
Then, pensive just long enough to say, "I was nineteen once," she shot me a sidelong glance so roguish that I was dumb with indignation and tried to find my mustache, forgetting I had shaved it off to stimulate it. She smiled in sweet propitiation and then came gravely to business. "Have you come from beyond the pickets?" "No, madam." "Have you met any officer riding toward them?" I had not.
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