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The sergeant turned to Maguire. "You know these gangs around here, Mack. Who's this guy's girl?" "He's got three or four, sergeant," responded the officer. "I guess this one must be Dutch Annie. Was she all dolled up with about a hundred dollars' worth of ostrich feathers, Burke?" "Yes tall, and some fighter." "That's the one. Her hangout is over there on the corner, in Shultberger's cabaret.
A little rivulet of water oozed from her hair, zigzagged down her cheek and seeped into her blouse, but her blue-lipped smile persisted. "Ain't I a nut, though! But wait till you see me dolled up to-morrow night, Jimmie! Eight at Hinkley's. I didn't have a hunch how cold how cold that water was. Next time they gotta heat it." "Got to heat it is good, Doll!
I want some pictures on the wall but nothing out of the Eighteenth Century no impressionistic landscapes no girls dolled up in fluffy stuff. I want some pictures I can enjoy, even if my maiden aunt can't. There you are. Tell him to go ahead on those lines. "In a word, Swinnerton, old top, I want to live. For about thirty years I've thought, and now I know that there's nothing in it.
Say, lady," he addressed Lucy, "fix 'er up hey? Doll 'er up proper, an' le's see wot de ol'-timer looks like." "You'll oblige me by getting out of the door," said Lucy indignantly. "Oh, don't scold the poor eel!" pleaded Jerkline Jo. "He doesn't know any better. So you want to see me dolled up, do you, Squint? By George, you're on, old-timer! I've got some glad rags here in this burg. Go on now!
He had been more insistent than usual he had commented upon her rosy cheeks and he had made a laughing reference to her wide eyes. And he had asked her, gruffly, why she didn't take up with some feller like himself a good provider, an' all, that'd doll her up the way she'd oughter be dolled up?
It was the details of this scheme that he'd been tryin' to work off on me for weeks, but I'd kept duckin', until finally I'd agreed to let him spill it across the luncheon table. "It's got to be a swell feed, though, Hartley," I insists as I joins him out at the express elevator. "Will the Café l'Europe do?" he asks. "Gee!" says I. "So that's why you 're dolled up in the Sunday uniform, eh?
Here was a regular person, all dolled up in a classy evening gown, with a fur-trimmed opera cape slippin' off her shoulders. And she was givin' him the straight call. "But but there must be some mistake," protests Ernie. "If there is," says I, "it's up to you to put the lady wise. You can't walk off and leave her with her hands in the air, can you? Ah, don't be a fish! Step up."
"I suppose an impulse to offer the man a garment of some sort moved me to address him. 'You're nearly naked, I said. "He crossed one leg over the other with the toe of the carpet slipper touching the walk, in the manner a burlesque actor, took the cigarette out of his mouth with a little flourish, and replied to me: 'Sure, Governor, I ain't dolled up like John Drew.
"He's a regular heart-breaker when he's dolled up, I bet," giggled Bobby. "It's too bad!" murmured the Lockwood twins, in unison. Thus did the appearance of the young man, Mr. Norman Halliday, tell upon the covey of frightened girls. Mrs. Morse herself began to recover from her disturbance of mind. This was no criminal character, for sure!
Hullo, Sis. How goes it, Pop?" His greeting embraced everything and everyone in a rush, from the savory supper to the invalid father whose face had brightened at his coming. "What're you getting all dolled up for, Sis?" Beryl and her mother tried to tell the story at the same time. Dale did not seem at all impressed and Beryl was disappointed.
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