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As he expects to live in the sylvan forest, as did the 'merrie, merrie men' of Robin Hood, Purt is dolled up accordingly." "Gee!" breathed Bobby. "Do you suppose Robin Hood ever looked like that?" "That's Lincoln green," announced Lance, trying to keep his face straight. "You notice that the pants are short knickerbockers, in fact.
"Neil and I had just come out of our ground-hog's hole and we had nearly all France on our uniforms, and Sandy was such a swell, all dolled up like a field-marshal that Neil said perhaps we oughtn't to be so familiar as to salute him. But we got a bath and got fumigated too, and it was real Christmas holidays not to have to scratch for a whole day.
"That kind of thing is all right for Joe, of course. Joe's a natural-born 'fusser. He's never happier than when he's dolled up in a sport-shirt and a lavender scarf and toasting marshmallows. But " "Is that so?" inquired Joe with deep sarcasm. "If I was half the 'fusser' you are " "What I want," interrupted Perry, warming to his theme, "is adventure!
It was by chance she heard one of them say: "Well, I don't care, Sue, I think she is real nice. You are awfully critical." "I can't bear dowdy people," drawled Sue Latrop. "I know she'll be a sight at that dinner to-morrow night. My goodness! if for nothing else I'd come to see how she looks in her 'best bib and tucker' and how that queer old man acts when he is what he calls 'all dolled up."
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?
Well, during the strike Clarence Drum comes pee-rading up to our table, all dolled up fit to kill in his nice lil cap'n's uniform, and somebody says to him, 'Busting the strike, Clarence? "Well, he swells up like a pouter-pigeon and he hollers, so 's you could hear him way up in the reading-room, 'Yes, sure; I told the strike-leaders where they got off, and so they went home.
"So good-bye, and look for me back with my chest all dolled up with medals, because I am sure coming if you will let me. When I get to Tucson, I'll call you up on long distance, and then if your folks ain't in the room, I wish you'd tell me if it's all right with you, my loving you the way I do. Or if they are in the room, you can just say 'all right, and I'll know what you mean.
She rose after the service, carefully taking Kennicott's arm and smiling at him in a mute assertion that she was devoted to him no matter what happened. She followed the Mystery's soft brown jersey shoulders out of the church. Fatty Hicks, the shrill and puffy son of Nat, flapped his hand at the beautiful stranger and jeered, "How's the kid? All dolled up like a plush horse today, ain't we!"
Pretty, isn't it? When he's dolled up, he's some hello!" He swung around to the telephone.
"Mabbe," murmured Larry the Bat, "youse'd know him better when he ain't dolled up." He swept the glasses from Virat's nose, and wrenched away the black moustache and goatee. "Kenleigh!" gasped Meighan. "Mabbe," said Larry the Bat, with a twisted grin, "dere's somethin' he may have fergotten ter wise youse up on, but he didn't mean ter hide nothin' in his confession did youse, Frenchy?
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