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I often wonder he did not brain his more fussy patients with their wooden legs and have done with it! "Got your knee, Miss?" the men would call sometimes. "You're lucky." When I saw men who had lost an arm and sometimes both legs, from above the knee too, I realised just how lucky I was. They were all so splendidly cheerful.
"After all, this is not absurd. It is insignificant. It is absolutely insignificant absolutely. The craze of an old woman the fussy officiousness of a blundering elderly Englishman. What devil put him in the way? Haven't I treated him cavalierly enough? Haven't I just? That's the way to treat these meddlesome persons. Is it possible that he still stands behind my back, waiting?"
They had always thought she was unnecessarily fussy about it, but now they should see they were mistaken. It was like unveiling a statue. The poor thing had been there all the time, covered up so that you couldn't hear it. She was so excited about it she could hardly leave it alone. And he had been as delighted with the results as she herself.
Then the daughter followed, and vanished also under the shady veranda. There was a quick sound of women's low, apologetic voices, overridden by the resentful abuse of the man. The lovers moved out of hearing. 'Imagine that breakfast-table! said Siegmund. 'I feel, said Helena, with a keen twang of contempt in her voice, 'as if a fussy cock and hens had just scuffled across my path.
He was soon to obtain that of Maximilian, but this genial and eccentric emperor proved a fussy patron, as quick to change his mind and to interfere with impossible demands and criticisms, as he was slow to pay and deficient in means for being truly generous.
Also I knew that Macassey's memory, like that of most fussy men, was as bad as mine was good. I thought I'd catch him out sooner or later. He and I went round the camp, and, after about half-an-hour of the most putrid crabbing, he suddenly caught sight of some double-roofed Indian tents that Simpson had got together with great difficulty for the worst cases.
But Mary Cox paid her respects to the first speaker only, by saying: "If you want to get ahead of the Upedes, Madge Steele, you Fussy Curls had better set your alarm clocks a little earlier." Ruth and Helen were climbing out of the old coach now, and the girl named Madge Steele looked them over sharply. "Pledged, are they?" she said to Mary Cox, in a low tone. "Well!
This throng of fashion and beauty, marked with its air of distinction carelessly abandoned to pleasure, ever murmuring pleasant nothings and tossing light persiflage from table to table, is truly an interesting study of the lighter sides of life. One sits on a magnificent markee-covered, glass-enclosed terrace, overlooking the Thames with its ever-changing scenes of fussy tugs and squat barges.
But her rage was only simulated, and she didn't really think what she said. She herself wore a most elaborate embroidered dress of rich pink silk. It was trimmed, too, with pearl bead fringe, and to Dolly's simple taste it was too fussy. But Dotty admired it, and Bernice thought it wonderful. "It IS a good thing," said Alicia, carelessly. "It's imported. I've never had it on before."
"Yes!" said a fussy hypocrite of reason within me, "and what's that to do with you?" "Everything, you fool!" answered a robuster voice in my soul, kicking the feeble creature clean out of my head on the instant.
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