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I brought you up in strict regard to all the proprieties, and now you insist that you won't be a lady." "Don't fret so, mother," said Mattie, again putting her arms around her mother's neck, and kissing her. "I will be a real good, obedient girl, and do anything you bid me. But then " Here Mattie paused for a moment, and looked roguishly up into her mother's face. "But then what?"
"Well, good-night then, and beware of the knight of the church road," said her dead sister, and smiled roguishly in her old way. Then Mamsell Fredrika drove home. All Årsta still slept, and she went quietly to her room, lay down and slept again. A few hours later she drove to the real early mass.
In the bath on the rear steps of the lodge Bobby swam and splashed, and scattered foam with his excited tail. He would not stand still to be groomed, but wriggled and twisted and leaped upon the children, putting his shaggy wet paws roguishly in their faces.
With his gray tweeds, Mark, from his cap to shoes, seemed more English than Irish, and one instinctively looked for the monocle but in vain, for the Irish-gray eyes, deep-set under the heavy straight brows, disdained artifice as they looked half-seriously, though also a bit roguishly, out upon the world.
I go into the garden, and begin to pace up and down the gravel walks, under the naked lime-trees that have forgotten their July perfume, and are tossing their bare, cold arms in the evening wind. Only one of my old playfellows is left me. Jacky still stands on the gravel as if the whole place belonged to him; still stands with his head on one side, roguishly eying the sunset.
Planting one foot firmly in the center of the puddle and bracing the other against the curb-stone, I extended my hand. "If you're good at jumping, Miss Slocum," said I, "I'll land you safely on this side." "Oh," said she, roguishly, "Mr. Flutter, can I trust you?" and she reached out her little gloved hand. All my old embarrassment rushed over me.
I've trimmed him of twenty thousand and a ten thousand dollar road, but where did he get all that coin? He took it out of our mine, the old Willie Meena, and a whole lot more besides. Well, whose money was it, anyway didn't I own the mine first? All right, then, I reckon it was mine!" He patted his pocket, where his roll of bills lay, and smiled roguishly as he grabbed up the dog.
The end came in a positive Catherine-wheel exhibition of posturing, and a deathly silence on the part of the audience; the men not daring to make any comment, the women not daring to look at each other, until the widow, suddenly seizing upon the situation, clapped her little hands roguishly, and avowed in a babyish voice that "C'était bien gentil et original, n'est ce pas," which she didn't think at all really.
It was indicated in the two stories that Helen went with no very ill will, for she was smiling artfully and roguishly, but the fair Dido seemed to be shedding tears as large as walnuts from her eyes. Seeing which Don Quixote said, "These two ladies were unfortunate in not having been born in this age; and, above all, unfortunate am I for not having been born in theirs!
The well-informed Della, ill-inspired to set up for a wit, had ventured to address the scion of the house roguishly as "little gentleman," and Penrod, by means of the rapid elevation of his right foot, had removed from her supporting hands a laden tray. Both parents, started for the kitchen, Mr. Schofield completing his interrupted sentence on the way. "But I will, now!"
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