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This might not be one in the end but it was clearly a toss-up; and to consecrate a toss-up in this fashion with manufactured unction before a crowd of fashionable free-thinkers for who thought otherwise than freely, or not at all, when they were "dolled" up seemed to her as near a sin as one could find in an age which had abolished them.
I want you to be all dolled up to-night." His hands were fairly ablaze or looked to be. He had his great palms cupped, and that cup was full of gems in all sorts of ancient settings shooting sparks of all colors in the dimly lighted room. "There's a handful of stuff to make you pretty," he said, proudly. The ancient belt dangled over his arm.
You should have seen Ferdie, though, with a tow-colored wig clapped down over his ears and his spindle shanks revealed to a cold and cruel world in a pair of faded pink ballet trousers. For the Reverend Percy they dug out a fuzzy brown bathrobe with a hood, and tied a rope around his waist. Me, I'm dolled up in green tights and a leather coat, and get a bugle to carry.
"But, Hermy, I went after that office-boy's job you know I did!" "Yes, dear, though you got there too late." "No, I wasn't late, Hermy, only another guy happened t' get there first an' got the job! A kid I could have licked with one hand, too. One of these mommer's pets in a nobby sack suit all dolled up in a clean collar an' a bow-tie an' grey kid gloves.
"They call her the 'Sheep Queen, but we Old Timers know her as 'Mormon Joe's Kate. She shipped a while back, and just come home all dolled up. Made a little money, no doubt, but any pinhead could do that, the way prices are. She'll never get 'in, though." "'In' where?" "In society. For a little burg," with pride, "you'd be surprised to know how exclusive they are here."
And inside of ten minutes he swings in, all dolled up elegant with a pink carnation in his buttonhole. You should have seen the smile come off his face, though, when he sees what's occupyin' my desk chair. He'd have done a sneak back through the door too, if I hadn't blocked him off. "Steady there, J. Bayard!" says I. "On the job, now!" "But but this isn't Josie Vernon," says he. "It's that Mrs.
No half-shy "Can I walk home with you?" from Nap Ballou. No. Instead: "Hello, sweetheart!" "Hello, yourself." "Somebody's looking mighty pretty this evening, all dolled up in pink." "Think so?" She tried to be pertly indifferent, but it was good to have someone following, someone walking home with you. What if he was old enough to be her father, with graying hair?
He was after me. Folks, that man took himself apart for me. He made me promise to go along with him, all dolled up, and in our own car!" "You ain't going," said Wid, quietly. "One guess! But there'll be trouble. I've only told you a little part of it that that fellow spilled to me. Dorenwald's nutty over these things. He tells what the German Socialists will do when they get to America.
It's all complete: the big silver urn polished up and steaming sandwiches and cakes made, flowers about, us all dolled up and nobody to it! Oh, it's a scream!" "But don't anyone come?" says I. "Hardly," says Tessie, "unless you count Mrs. Fizzenmeyer, the delicatessen lady; or Madame Tebeau, the little hairdresser; or the Schmitt girls, from the corner bakery.
He found Pa and Ma dolled up like a couple of aristocratic Equines, much Awning over the Front Stoop, and strange Waiters hot-footing through the Hallways.
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