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Old Jerry swallowed hard at the cheery ease of the words, but his fluttery heart began to pump even faster than when he had sat outside in the buggy debating the advisability of his further advance.
It felt, in fact, quite as white and fluttery as the jabbow looked, and when Claire found herself being actually ushered into the boudoir of the august presence, and told to "wait please," she thought it would stop altogether for very abject fright.
When the White Linen Nurse wasn't busy renovating the big house or the little step-daughter, she was writing to the Senior Surgeon. She wrote twice. "Dear Dr. Faber," the first letter said. How do you do? Thank you very much, for saying you didn't care what in thunder I did to the house. It looks sweet. I've put white fluttery muslin curtains most everywhere.
"Not one blushing bride, but two," said Grandmother Ludlow. "How romantic." She presented her cheek to the nervous Mrs. Harley. "You look years younger, my dear. Quite fluttery and foolish. How do you do, Mr. Harley? You are very welcome, Sir." She passed them both on to the old man and turned to Joan with the kind of smile that one sees on the faces of Chinese gods.
"Yes, but those exams didn't make me nervous. When I think of the real thing you can't imagine what a horrid cold fluttery feeling comes round my heart. And then my number is thirteen and Josie Pye says it's so unlucky. I am NOT superstitious and I know it can make no difference. But still I wish it wasn't thirteen." "I do wish I was going in with you," said Diana.
Soon he was left alone to recuperate in the dark, alone, save for one or two brief, fluttery appearances by Mrs. Phillips herself, who allowed the coffee to be passed without any supervision on her own part. On the second of these visitations he found voice to say: "I'm so sorry for this and so ashamed. I can't think how it could have happened." He was ashamed, of course.
She is to me the partner in a marriage of the gods, for we become gods, we half brutes, when we muzzle the beast and are not menaced by his growls. Under heaven she is my wife and the mother of my children. Tell her, then, tell her all you wish, you dear old fluttery, mothery poet father as though it made any difference. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. December 3, 19 .
Out of a sound sleep the night Assistant had summoned Jane Brown to clean instruments. At five o'clock that morning she was still sitting on a stool beside a glass table, polishing instruments which made her shiver. All around were things that were spattered with blood. But she looked anything but fluttery. She was a very grim and determined young person just then, and professional beyond belief.
But, regarding Miss West, I do entertain one fervent hope, namely, that she is not a suffragette. That would be too much. Captain West may be a Samurai, but he is also human. He was really a bit fluttery this morning, in his reserved, controlled way, when he regretted the plague of vermin I had encountered in my rooms.
"You like a girl who is helpless and fluttery, who can be patronized." "No," said Harvey, "not that either." "I wish you would tell me." "How much do you know?" Before replying she looked out over the water for several moments. Harvey rested his oars and waited. She turned to him, still musing. "I'll be frank," she said.
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