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"'Perhaps you would rather take it up yourself, eh?" said her aunt, pinching her ears in malicious playfulness. 'I guess I know something about this screen for Aunt Liddy, it is a screen in more ways than one ha-ha, she exclaimed in taunting mockery, but still with an effort to keep up a simpering pretence to good-humor.
The nuns, though often young and pretty, had the insipidity of women secluded from the passions and sorrows of life without being raised above them; and he preferred the frank coarseness of the Procuratessa's circle to the simpering graces of the cloister. Even Coeur-Volant's mysterious boast of a conquest he had made among the sisters failed to excite his friend's curiosity.
'She has plenty of money to give to those scoundrels in hoods, but nothing for me, who can write books which will make her famous. In ira veritas. But for Erasmus and Batt the rather simpering statue of Anne on the front of the town-hall at Veere would have little meaning for us to-day. We must not judge Erasmus too hardly in his double tongue.
There's no such delicate waist anywhere. And she set her two slender little forefingers and thumbs together, as if spanning it. 'You've no chance beside her, Gertie; she'll set all the young fellows a-sighing and simpering. 'You wicked little rogue!
On the cold mornings she was bathed beside the fire which she very much hated and once when she was especially angry at the sharp dash of the bath sponge against her thin shoulders she clutched at the flabby dripping thing with all her might and sent it hurtling through the doorway where it splashed against the side wall of the tiny room and smudged out the flock of a simpering shepherdess.
Am I, who have been Lord Seneschal of Dauphiny these fifteen years, to end my days in degradation in the cause of a woman's matrimonial projects for a simpering school-girl? Seigneur du Ciel!" he roared, "I think you are gone mad mad, mad! over this affair. You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
To each of these worthy old people the artist had given a pair of hectic pink cheeks. Gran'ma Brewster especially, simpering down at you from the labyrinthian scrolls of her sextuple gold frame, was rouged like a soubrette and further embellished with a pair of gentian-blue eyes behind steel-bowed specs.
When a small boy came in his way, he took him by the neck and planted him on the curb-stone. If a man approached simpering, Andrew stopped and gazed at him. The smile went from the stranger's face; he blushed or looked fierce. When he turned round, Andrew still had his eye on him. Sometimes he came bouncing back. "What are you so confoundedly happy about?" Andrew asked.
So good of you to call!... My dear Miss Smith, this is indeed a pleasure." She seated herself again, quite primly now, and moved her hands over the tabouret appropriately to her words. "One lump, or two?... Yes, I just love bridge. No, I don't play," she continued, simpering; "but, just the same, I love it."
I thought once or twice of jumping into a cab, and flying; of taking refuge in Day and Martin's Blacking Warehouse; of speaking to a policeman, but not one would come. I was this man's slave. I followed him like his dog. I COULD not get away from him. So, you see, I went on meanly conversing with him, and affecting a simpering confidence.
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