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"You're in my hands now no mistake!" he murmured roguishly, picking up the documents, and bending over the bag. Hilda could hear a heavy footstep on the stairs, ascending. In the same instant she had an extraordinary and disconcerting impulse to seize his hand she knew not why, whether it was to thank him, to express her sympathy, or to express her submission.
He wanted to be paid for bearing happiness patiently. The rogue! I'll pinch him if I can only find him." So saying, Mary Anna went and sat down to supper, and soon after Caleb came and took his seat too; Mary Anna roguishly shaking her finger at him all the time. He had to hold his hand over his mouth to keep from laughing aloud.
"Of course you will," she smiled, as she removed the handsome lace coverlet from the bed. "No one will disturb you. My darling hubbie can sleep as sound as a top, and, when he wakes, we'll talk a terrible lot, won't we?" Looking up roguishly, as she smoothed his pillow for him, she added shyly: "There are two pillows here now. There has been only one while you were away "
The references are utterly beyond recovery; but such a register would throw a strange light on individual styles. The eloquent trifler, whose stock of words has been accumulated by a pair of light fingers, would stand denuded of his plausible pretences as soon as it were seen how roguishly he came by his eloquence.
"Wot d'ye call wot he's got on 'um, anyway?" The speaker was a male, naturally. "W'y, you big stoopid, can't you see he's wearin' rompers?" The answer came in a giggle, from a gay youthful creature of the opposite sex as she kicked out roguishly. "Well, then be chee, w'y don't he romp a little?" "Give 'um time, cancher? Don't you see he's blowin' out his flues? He's busy now.
"He blushed because of your unpardonable familiarity in calling him Richard," laughed Sarakoff. "I shall be most happy, Leonora," I stammered, making an immense effort, and longing for the waiter to bring the champagne. "But I am not good at the art." "But you must try." I saw no way out of the predicament. Sarakoff's eyes were twinkling roguishly, so I began, keeping my gaze on the table.
The smallest child gave an instinctive push over his forehead at the remark, and Zephaniah added, "He's as round and yellow as a punkin!" "He looked stiddy to Dorcas all the time," said 'Mima, roguishly. "Now you shet up, you silly child!" said Dorcas, with the dignity of a twelve-month's seniority.
You see there were so many things to tell her about yourself," and he laughed roguishly. "Are they depressed by what has happened?" "Not in the least; they regard it as a trial of their faith; but here we are at the house. I fear you will not see your estimable aunt; she is an invalid, and keeps strictly to her own rooms.
"Well, my dear, what do you want?" said the old lady, looking up with a pleased smile from her knitting as Annie's pretty head was pushed roguishly round the door. "Oh, come now, Miss Forest; I know your collogueing ways. But you ought to be in bed, my dear, for it's past ten o'clock."
The girl's eyes were turned to him. She smiled and glanced roguishly at her father. Lorry laughed outright. "What is the joke?" she demanded. "Nothin'; only my plate is empty, Miss Bronson." Bronson grabbed up carving-knife and fork. "Great Caesar! I must have been dreaming. I was dreaming. I was recalling a turkey hunt down in Virginia with Colonel Stillwell and his man Plato.
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