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You see, my dearly beloved self," nodding with returning sauciness at her image in the mirror before which she was combing her hair, "I undertake this business in the spirit of philosophical investigation." She needed to keep her courage up by these and the like whimsical conceits, when the forenoon of the next day passed away without a glimpse of Mr. Chilton.
Sin Saxon had no sauciness to give back for that; it made her feel all at once that this old Miss Craydocke had really been a girl too, with golden hair like her own, perhaps, and not so very far in the past, either, but that a like space in her own future could picture itself to her mind; and something, quite different in her mood from ordinary, made her say, with even an unconscious touch of reverence in her voice: "I wonder if I shall bear it, when it comes, as well as you!"
And yet she has gained more than she has lost, even in mere attraction; the vain coquettish girl is become a sweet and gentle woman; gaiety has been replaced by sensibility, and the sauciness of conscious power, by the modest wish to please.
Don't ye recollex the trick that ar minx played on him? She unbuckled the girt o' his saddle, jest as he wur a-goin' to mount, and down he kim saddle, bags, and all cawollup to the airth! ha! ha! Arter he wur gone, I larfed till I wur like to bust." "You did wrong, Hickman Holt, to encourage your daughter in her sauciness. Had you known the man that man, sir, was a prophet!" "A prophet!"
Then she spoke from her new habitation nine hundred miles away, in these meagre words: 'Are settled at the address given. Can now attend to any inquiry about the building. The pointed implication that she could attend to inquiries about nothing else, breathed of the veritable Paula so distinctly that he could forgive its sauciness. His reply was soon despatched:
Her self-confidence returned in a moment, and she greeted me with her old sauciness, though it seemed a trifle forced: "Ah, Monsieur, so you have come back without going to Paris after all, I hear." "Yes, Mademoiselle," I answered coldly. "But I have taken your advice and looked a little into the eyes of danger; and I find it does make a difference in one."
"YOUR family, perhaps." Faraday Little smiled in the superiority of boyhood over girlhood. "I allude to the classification. That plant is the belladonna, or deadly nightshade. Its alkaloid is a narcotic poison." Sauciness turned pale. "I have just eaten some!" And began to whimper. "O dear, what shall I do?" Then did it, i. e. wrung her small fingers and cried. "Pardon me one moment."
You are a good-looking young fellow, you have money and fine horses, and there are women enough who are only too ready to spread their nets abroad. . ." "What are you thinking of?" cried Marcus passionately. "It is I who am the fisher a fisher of souls, and so every true believer ought to be. She she is innocence and simplicity itself, in spite of her roguish sauciness.
During the whole period of his acquaintance with Lucetta he had never wished to claim her as his own so desperately as he now regretted her loss. It was no mercenary hankering after her fortune that moved him, though that fortune had been the means of making her so much the more desired by giving her the air of independence and sauciness which attracts men of his composition.
Why, Bathsheba, you have lost all the pluck and sauciness you formerly had, and upon my life if I had known what a chicken-hearted creature you were under all your boldness, I'd never have-i know what." A flash of indignation might have been seen in Bathsheba's dark eyes as she looked resolutely ahead after this reply.
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