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They will be sure to give you a spanking. The deed is done, and well done. On the whole I think it has been good for the cause, but bad for you." "Why?" "You may have to run out of England to save your neck and the face of the King. He was there, I believe?" "Yes, sir." "The injured lad is in a bad way. The wound caught an infection. Intense fever and swelling have set in.
Once, annoyed at Jacky's shrill noisiness, he had protested, frowning: "Can't you keep it quiet? It needs a spanking!" She could not have said just why perhaps it was fear lest Maurice would notice his growing perfection but when Jacky's father came she kept Jacky in the background! On this September afternoon she said, as she opened the door: "Why, you're a great stranger! Come right in!
Presently the lively mule teams would come along the winding trail at spanking trot. Then the troop would open out to right and left and let them take the lead, giving the dust in exchange, and once more the rapid march would begin.
He put out a sudden hand and laid it on her wet shoulder. She opened her eyes widely again at the new look in his. But even so her regard was utterly fearless. "Young lady," he said sternly, "so help me God, I've got the biggest notion in the world to take you across my knee and give you the spanking of your life.
They didn't want to, but Miss Hope got one of father's fives-bats and said she'd give them a number nine spanking if they didn't, so they've gone to do it." A loud, angry screaming from the direction of the lawn drew Mrs. Quabarl thither in hot haste, fearful lest the threatened castigation might even now be in process of infliction.
Schiller, in particular, has been treated like an impudent schoolboy who deserves a spanking. I should not mention this, but for the fact that it throws so much sidelight upon that rationalistic temper to which I have opposed the temper of pragmatism. Pragmatism is uncomfortable away from facts. Rationalism is comfortable only in the presence of abstractions.
The breeze remained fair and we scudded along at a spanking rate, the gannets keeping us company all the way evidently bound to the same shore. I kept talking to Mrs Reichardt, and endeavouring to raise her spirits with the most cheering description of what we should do when we got ashore, for God would be sure to direct us to some place where we might without difficulty recover our strength.
"I will say this much; it isn't my fault," replied Alix stiffly. Mrs. Strong smiled, a tender, loving smile. "I think I could straighten everything out if David were only here," she said. "I would take you both across my knee and give you a good sound spanking. It used to work beautifully when you were children, and I think it would work now.
You spoilt a gallant venture, but, by Jove, you did it well! I can't imagine how you found me! Accept my congratulations. "Yours sincerely, "Confound him! What I suffered don't count. He's just the man he always was brave, of course, quixotically chivalrous, a light weight. Ann used to say he was a grown-up boy and small for his age. Well, he has had his spanking. Confound him!"
Then she was sure she had the thing figured out, and she fetched first one and then the other a cuff that sent them rolling ten feet away. When they got up bawling she was right there and gave them the darndest spanking two innocent cubs ever got.
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