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"Then say to her for me that she must keep the money, every penny of it." Simmy was staggered. "But she—she doesn't want it," he muttered, lamely. His face brightened. "I say, old boy, why let the measly money stand in the way? Take her and the money too. Don't be so darned finicky about—" "Come, come, old fellow," protested Thorpe, eyeing him coldly. "All right," said Simmy resignedly.
She dropped into interested familiarity. "I met him at Oxford." "Really?... My brother was at Stanford. I think I've heard him speak of Oh yes. He said that Mittyford was a cultural climber, if you know what I mean; rather oh, how shall I express it? oh, shall we put it, finicky about things people have just told him to be finicky about." "Yes!" glowed Mr. Wrenn.
Oh, but he was in his element, was Claude Merrill; though the glamour that surrounded him in the minds of the Edgewood girls did not emanate wholly from his finicky little person: something of it was the glamour that belonged to Boston, remote, fashionable, gay, rich, almost inaccessible Boston, which none could see without the expenditure of five or six dollars in railway fare, with the added extravagance of a night in a hotel, if one would explore it thoroughly and come home possessed of all its illimitable treasures of wisdom and experience.
But Australian savages were not as finicky as Jill and himself. They ate grubs and insects. For this sort of situation, prejudices were a handicap. He considered the idea with sardonic appreciation. Two days of inadequate food and such ideas came! But he and Jill wouldn't be the only ones to think such things if matters continued as they were going.
It's careless enough I am the west isn't a good place to learn finicky ways but you can teach me. You're not going to throw me over because I track mud in!" "I cannot marry you, Mr. MacPherson," said Aunt Olivia again.
I went over to Toronto and they took me like a shot in the Royal British. They weren't so blamed finicky and old womanish. All they asked for in an applicant was any kind of a heart at all so long as it was with the cause. I don't suppose I ought to say it, but the American Air Service was a joke." "I hope you ain't turning British in your feelings, Court," remarked Amos Vick.
Besides, in this case, we do not have to be 'finicky' about the meaning of the ancient word, for in the Psalms there is a verse which says that a thousand years in His sight are ..." "Are but as yesterday," Rose completed the quotation in her gentle voice. "You see, those were God's days, not ours." "Well, I'll be ... blessed," said Donald. "It is logical enough, isn't it?
I don't give a rip what Barrie may have written about the bringing up of children for he never had any of his own! He never had an imperious young autocrat to democratize. He never had a family to de-barbarize, even though he did write very pretty books about the subject. It's just another case, I suppose, where fiction is too cowardly or too finicky to be truthful.
To some extent he was cheered up by a letter from the editor of that lively and not too finicky publication, Tittle-Tattle. The interview with Miss Raleigh was acclaimed with almost rapturous delight. It was precisely the sort of thing wanted. Proof had already been sent to Miss Raleigh, who was equally pleased. Would Mr.
The captain explained his having mislaid the address. "Oh, was that it? Then I'm glad I reminded you. Rather a cheeky thing to do, but I've been a reporter, and nerve is necessary in that profession. I began to be afraid living among the blue-bloods had had its effect, and you were getting finicky as to your acquaintances." "You didn't believe any such thing." "Didn't I? Well, perhaps I didn't.
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