wild streak meaning

wild streak meaning 18│______│ ______ │______ │ ______ │______│______│______ A faint sound caught his ear, as of clinking coins and soft voices. People there! He had thought it before, now he was certain. Were not both brothers away?,Patricia shivered with excited anticipation as they closed the heavy outer door of the Academy after them.,"I have an excellent excuse," interrupted David, rising.,"Why not?" in a surprised tone.,"Coming up from behind, so Moll says."，"Call me Geoffrey."，CHAPTER V，"An overwhelming desire to see you again," returns this wise young man, in a tone that is absolutely abject.Suddenly a knock fell on the door.

"Mona, can you manage to get home by some short way by yourself? Because I must return. I must stand by this man they are going to murder. I must indeed, darling. Forgive me that I desert you here and at such an hour, but I see you are safe in the country, and five minutes will take you to the farm, and I cannot let his life be taken without striking a blow for him.","I mean that she shall remain just as she is. The world may be 'given to lying,' as Shakspeare tells us, but I will not have Mona tutored into telling fashionable falsehoods," says this intrepid young man facing his mother without a qualm of a passing dread. "A lie of any sort is base, and a prevarication is only a mean lie. She is truthful, let her stay so. Why should she learn it is the correct thing to say she is not at home when she is, or that she is suffering from a foolish megrim when she isn't? I don't suppose there is much harm in saying either of these things, as nobody ever believes them; but—let her remain as she is.","What did she say to you concerning it?","We have followed and found you, sir," were Captain Acton's first words to Mr Eagle.,Preface,"You love me?" repeats she, faintly.,Patricia gave her arm a quick squeeze. "If we weren't on a public platform, I'd kiss you for that, Elinor Kendall," she said, ardently. "You make things so comfortable for me.","My dear fellow, let well alone," says Nicholas, with his slow, peculiar smile. "It was I induced Mona to dance with 'that fellow,' as you call him. Forgive me this injury, if indeed you count it one.","By that devil-stick poison?",Ted went after him on a run but again he was too late, for when he reached the threshhold of the house, his quarry had disappeared. Dashing back through the hall, he met Bob on his way out, and they went to the door.,"I think Miss Jinny has hurt her hand, Miss Pat," she said with exaggerated anxiety. "She's got her handkerchief wrapped about it. I hope it isn't badly hurt—she doesn't look as if it were inimical, does she?","I agree with you!" remarked the major, sharply. "A man might make a jest of these horrors--as you are doing.".