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I'm going to show them a baby doll that can make the high-society bunch in this town look like Subway sports. Are you game, girl? Now! Think well! Here goes. Jess!" "Charley I You " "Jess over here! Quick!" "Charley honey " At eleven o'clock a small, watery moon cut through a sky that was fleecily clouded a swift moon that rode fast as a ship.
"I've come around to let you know that you couldn't laugh like a horse at ME no more, George Dowden! So YOU weren't invited, either." "Invited?" said Dowden, "Where?" "Over to the BALL your friend is givin'." "What friend?" "Dave Beasley. So you ain't quite good enough to dance with his high-society friends!" "What are you talking about?" Dowden demanded, impatiently.
He was small and thin and dark; clean shaven, with a face like an actor, narrow shoulders and a sort of caved-in chest. He walked with a slight limp, and was a little over-dressed for the exclusive, conservative, high-society crowd that flock to 'The Breakers." "That's our man, Suraci that's Paddington, to the life!" Blaine exclaimed.
"What did you say?" "I said I was cal'latin' to. Told him I hated to get out of the high-society circles I'd been livin' in lately, but that everyone had their comedowns in this world." "Ho, ho! that was a good one. What answer did he make to that?" "Well, he said the 'high society' would miss me. Then he finished up with a piece of advice. 'Berry, says he, 'don't move onto that lot TOO quick.
McMahon, who bridled and simpered in proud happiness over this recognition of the honor she enjoyed. "Indeed, she's as proud as a peacock, that she is," she avowed candidly. "And, if you noticed, Mrs. Hamilton, I didn't so much as say how do you do to the man at the door, as I always have before, nor even so much as look at him.... For such is the high-society way of it, they're after telling me."
Sipiagin pronounced all these proverbs in a peculiarly powerful, gruff voice d'une voix rustique. Similar sayings let loose at the proper time and place in St. Petersburg would cause influential high-society ladies to exclaim, "Comme il connait bien les moeurs de notre people!" and great statesmen would add, "Les moeurs et les besoins!"
Louis, no pastoral Pittsburg, no sequestered Cincinnati, no bucolic Boston, no friendly Philadelphia, where 'the heart that is humble may look for' disinterested pleasure in the high-society functions of the day or night? Does New York set the pace for all these places, and are dinners given there as here, not for the delight of the guests, but as the dire duty of the hostesses?
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