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She was in the shape of a girl about the lad's own age and size, fair as was he and slight, a flapper with a short thick straw-coloured plait. She came round the tent swift and terrible as a rapier, her steel-gray eyes flashing and fierce. Such determination on so young a face the bookie thought he had never seen. For a moment he expected to see her strike her victim.
I felt things were indeed unchanged! That evening I hunted out all my French friends. The old flower lady in the Rue uttered a shriek, dropped her flowers, and embraced me again and again. Then there was the Pharmacie to visit, the paper man, the pretty flapper, Monsieur and Madame from the "Omelette" Shop, and a host of others. I also saw the French general.
Were they trying to assure themselves that he was a fit man to be in the employ of old Breede? He could imagine it of them; as soon as they thought about voting they began to interfere in a man's business. Yet this suspicion slept when he was with the flapper alone. Sometimes he was conscious of liking very much to be with her. He decided that this was because she didn't talk.
Others sent out the suffering pupil to cut a branch of a tree, and, making a split in the large end of the branch, sprung it on the culprit's nose, and he stood painfully pinched, an object of ridicule with his spreading branch of leaves. One cruel master invented an instrument of torture which he called a flapper.
I haven't wasted any time talking to her." She indicated the flapper, who still fixed the implacable look on Bean. "If she doesn't know at nineteen, she never would " "We've settled all that," said the flapper loftily. "Haven't we?" Bean nodded. All at once that look of the flapper's began to be intelligible. He could almost read it.
But she was staunch; she had perfectly well known the very first moment she saw him. And she had never spoiled it all, like that other one in Chicago, by asking him if he was fond of Nature and Good Music and such things. The flapper was capable but quiet. With his hand still upon Ram-tah's brow in that half-timid, strange caress, he was flooded with a sudden new gladness about the flapper.
If you want to compete with the flappers, you've got to play by the flapper rules. Check your conversational inhibitions! And if by chance there be any inhibitions left over, Prohibition has obligingly introduced new opportunities for privacy, that will help you check them too.
He says if we don't beat it out of here by the next boat he can imagine nothing of less something or other I can't hear " " consequence," snapped Breede. "Yes, that's it; and now he's laughing and telling her she's a perfectly flapper." "Oh, my poor child," murmured the mother. "Puzzle t' me," said Breede. "I swear I can't make out just how many kinds of a "
"Going in" for dogs seemed to mean more. "I've got only one just now," he confessed. Wooded hills flew by them, the white road flickered forward to their wheels. "You interested in the movement?" demanded the flapper again. "Yes," he said. "Granny will be delighted to know that. So many young men aren't."
So I got up late and had a glorious meal of soup, omelette, and fruit in the town, waited on by a most excellent flapper who wanted to know everything about everything. I reported at the Signal Office, then occupying the lodge of the town cemetery, and was sent off to catch the Devons.
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