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Jigging parties be all very well on the Devil's holidays; but a jigging party looks suspicious now. O yes; stop till the clock strikes, young folk so say I." It happened that some warm mead accidentally got into Mr. Spinks's head about this time. "Dancing," he said, "is a most strengthening, livening, and courting movement, 'specially with a little beverage added! And dancing is good.
"Well," said Flossie with a touch of maidenly dignity, "whichever it was, it wasn't likely to be Keith." Spinks's face would have fallen, but for its immense surprise. In this case Rickman ought, yes, he certainly ought to have told him.
As for Spinks's present determination, he thought it decidedly risky for Spinks; but if Spinks enjoyed balancing himself in this way on the edge of perdition it was no business of his. As it happened, the event seemed to prove that Spinks knew very well what he was about. The callow youth had evidently hit on the right treatment for his own disease.
Penny in full- length portraiture, Mail's face and shoulders above Mr. Penny's head, Spinks's forehead and eyes over Mail's crown, and a fractional part of Bowman's countenance under Spinks's arm crescent-shaped portions of other heads and faces being visible behind these the whole dozen and odd eyes bristling with eager inquiry. Mr.
"`Oh, man, Jacob! you would enjoy a visit to Spinks's home, returned Tom, still taking no notice of my state of mind, `it's such a splendid place for trout-fishing, with a burn full of the deep oily pools you are so fond of, and lots of sea-trout; and Mrs Spinks is so kind and jolly though so delicate; just like little Spinks himself, but of course a good deal larger.
"I could fancy last night that we should have some trouble wi' that young man," said the tranter, pending the continuance of Spinks's speech, and looking towards the unconscious Mr. Maybold in the pulpit. "I fancy," said old William, rather severely, "I fancy there's too much whispering going on to be of any spiritual use to gentle or simple."
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