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Updated: June 29, 2025
While she sang, the guard to whom she had whispered forced a way through the ranks of the standing crowd, and came behind Ismail. He tweaked the Afridi's ear to draw attention, for like all the others like King, too Ismail was listening with dropped jaw and watching with burning eyes.
A year after the flight of Olaf Ericson's wife, the night train was steaming across the plains of Iowa. The conductor was hurrying through one of the day coaches, his lantern on his arm, when a lank, fair-haired boy sat up in one of the plush seats and tweaked him by the coat. "What is the next stop, please, sir?" "Red Oak, Iowa. But you go through to Chicago, don't you?"
Then, going to the bag, her compressed lips twitching, her gray eyes piercing into its clasp with a kind of distrustful optimism, she lifted the pincers and tweaked it hard.
"Can a man with a nose like that," she went on, "have any secrets from his Vava lele ririe?" And at the Vava she tweaked his nose to the right; at lele it went to the left; at ririe she nipped it straight again. "Well, I have just seen " Crevel stopped and looked at Madame Marneffe. "Valerie, my treasure, promise me on your honor ours, you know? not to repeat a single word of what I tell you."
Well, if you're not tall enough by Wednesday morning, you can't have the present I bought for you last night. Too short, no present you think it over." He stooped to kiss his mother, tweaked Sister's perky bow of hair-ribbon, and with a hasty "Good-bye" for the others at the table, hurried out into the hall. They heard the front door slam after him.
The Embassy rang with stories of the number of mails he had brought, of the milk baths he sent for, the gloves he slept in, the valets who tweaked out superfluous hairs from his eyebrows, the delicacies required for his little dogs.
They moved in around the house, and somehow confidence was restored by following the old familiar pattern of the surprise attack as if in this small action they were again a part of the assured troops who had fought gunboats from horseback, who had tweaked the Yankees' tails so often.
Then the three buried themselves in Number Five lavatory, turned on all the taps, filled the place with steam, and dropped weeping into the baths, where they pieced out the war. "Moi! Je! Ich! Ego!" gasped Stalky. "I waited till I couldn't hear myself think, while you played the drum! Hid in the coal-locker and tweaked Rabbits-Eggs and Rabbits-Eggs rocked King. Wasn't it beautiful?
Thought you might be kept late again." The adorable old muggins! The very thought of having somebody to worry over her was so very new to Donna, and so very sweet withal, that she called Mr. McGraw an adorable old muggins, and pinched the lobe of his left ear, and tweaked the sunburned apex of his Irish nose.
Her head flew up from his touch. "I see." "Manage it?" "I think so." "You what?" "I know so." "Good. Never let a think show through your answer. Yes or no!" "Yes." He tweaked her chin again. "Watch out somebody doesn't steal you on your way home, big girl." "To-morrow at ten," she repeated, going out into the sunshine that smote her with the sting of hot lances.
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