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"One word more, and I have done," said poor Margaret. "You used an expression, dear, old fuddy-duddies, was it? I never heard it before. Do you think it is an elegant expression, Peggy dear?" "It's as good as I am girl!" said Peggy; and Margaret shut her eyes, and felt despair in her heart.
Ma never had any of what you call education, she was a farmer's daughter, you know, and had always lived on the prairie, and she has always got on well enough. Hugh talks just like you do " "Please, dear, as you do, not like." "Well, as you do, then. He talks William the Conqueror and all those old fuddy-duddies by the yard, but he can't make me see the use of them, and you can't.
In this wholly new experience of feeling, not only happy, but important, she forgot Mrs. Newbolt, sailing angrily for Europe that very day, and was not even anxious about the Houghtons! After all, what difference did it make what such people thought of elopements? "Fuddy-duddies!" she said to herself, using Maurice's slang with an eager sense of being just as young as he was.
Vose is in the pension-office; Ambrose and Sturdivant are in the adjutant-general's office patching up the Civil War rolls, with orders to take their time about it. And you'll be used well." "I want to be in the field," insisted Breed, 'sipping' his lips importantly. "Those fellows are old fuddy-duddies. I'm a natural politician." He was an interesting figure, this Honorable Daniel Breed.
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