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"Well, well, Sir Chaps! I saw Sorolla in his new style; very different from the academics of the young Sorolla. He has found his mission and let himself go. No wonder people flocked to his exhibitions on misty days! The trouble with our artists is that they are afraid to let themselves go, afraid to be popular. They think technique is the thing, when it is only the tool.
That old school down there turns out chaps who can get more out of the simple life than any bunch I know of. It may be the simple life in some respects, but it's got a confounded lot of hard work in it all the same, and when you've finished that you're ready to take your fun, and you take it just as hard as you take your work, and I don't want to see a better bunch of men than that system shows.
"There was an ancestor who fought against the Britishers, wasn't there? Your mother said something to that effect." "I believe so; one of those old chaps in raglan vests and golf trousers. I don't care a continental for a Continental, myself. But the mother has set her heart on pomp and heraldry and pyrotechnics, and I want her to be happy." "You are a good boy, Terence," said Mrs.
No gammon, or I whistles, and there'll be dozens of our chaps here in no time; and, if they comes and finds you're nasty, there won't be no mercy and so I tell yer!" "Don't be absurd," said Dick, thinking it better to out with the truth; "we've only come to play a tune or two in front of the house." "Yes, yes!" said the lieutenant, feebly. "Yes, yes!" cried the constable, mockingly.
They'll torment you to death, them young chaps." I had forgotten that I was dressed as a Quaker. "Tell the coachman to stop at the first cloth warehouse where they have ready-made cloaks," said I. The man did so; I went out and purchased a roquelaure, which enveloped my whole person. I then stopped at a hatter's, and purchased a hat according to the mode.
That chap who won the lottery in Genoa that time. Look! He pointed across the street to a party of chaps in khaki walking along and slapping their legs with their canes. The tallest man and the finest-looking of the lot was my brother. I couldn't be mistaken, though it would be difficult to say exactly why. It was his air.
"Oh, try it," said Jack, laughing. "I'll help you. You've no idea how easy it is! Have you never had a letter from a man?" "From papa," said Patty, putting the tip of her finger in her mouth, and speaking babyishly. "Papa, nothing! You get letters from those New York chaps, don't you, now?" "Who New York chaps?" asked Patty, opening her eyes wide, with an over-innocent stare.
Lean and muscular and sunbaked, he looked out of cool, gray eyes upon a man's world that had often put him through the acid test. The plain, cactus-torn chaps, flannel shirt open at the sinewy throat, dusty, wide-brimmed hat, revolver peeping from its leather pocket on the thigh: every detail contributed to the impression of efficiency he created.
"Harkye here, messmates; I says as chaps as'd half kill such a orficer as Mr Russell, who's as fine a gen'leman as ever stepped, 'd murder a King as soon as look at him." "Ay, ay," came in a low growl. "And if any o' you thinks different to my sentiments, let him speak out like a man." "That's what we all think, messmet," came in another growl. "And there you are, sir, and them's fax.
He consented, saying carelessly that two or three months would not much matter to him, but the truth was that the delay urged by the old men strengthened his suspicion that all was not just right. "Those old chaps are too sweet by half," he said to himself.
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