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Then came Drummond Island, where the inhabitants, dark complexioned, with slight limbs, and unintelligent faces, offered to exchange some triangular shells, commonly called holy water cups, for knives and fishhooks; next the islands of Sydenham and Henderville, where the inhabitants go entirely naked; after them, Woolde, Hupper, Hall, Knox, Charlotte, Mathews, which form the Gilbert Archipelago; and finally the Marshall and Mulgrave groups.
'I doesn't mean to say, mind ye, observed Mr. Buckram, drawing back three half-crowns, as though he had gone that much too far, 'I doesn't mean to say, mind, that he's wot you call a misteched, runaway, rear-backwards-over-hanimal but I mean to say he's a difficultish oss to ride himpetuous and one that, if he got the hupper 'and, would be werry likely to try and keep the hupper 'and you understand me? said he, eyeing Mr.
I know this: she'd get a deuced pretty fellow for her husband, and one that girls as good as her has hankered hafter long enough. It won't do, governor, to let people as is in their position pick and choose like. We've the hupper hand, and we must do the picking and choosing." "She'd never have you, Aby; not if her father went down on his knees to her to ask her." "Oh, wouldn't she?
96 Queen Street, London. 114 Fifth Avenue, New York. by Neely's Primatic Library Cloth, 50 Cents "This is a modern, up-to-date "society" novel with considerable local coloring and many pictures of life in the "hupper suckles." It describes the career and love experiences of one who eventually becomes Viscountess Landale.
Sir Richard, you know, belongs to the hupper ten, an' he 'as not been used to associate with people so much further down in the scale. Whether he's right or whether he's wrong ain't for me to say. I merely remark that, things being as they are, the master 'as come to a wonderful pass." "It's all along of Miss Diana," said Mrs Screwbury.
Two or three of the ladies who have won their way to the "hupper succles" possess talent; one of them has a beautiful voice and great gifts as an actress, and one was a brilliant dancer and became an excellent comedienne. The ruck and run of them, however, have triumphed owing to advertisement in subtle and also in crude forms. Some wag, no doubt, has called their branch the leg-itimate drama.
Of the 350 male revelers more than 100 were costumed as Louis XV., while but three considered Washington worthy of imitation. Was this the result of admiration in New York's "hupper sukkles" for this wretched Roi Faineant, or King Donothing, whose palace was a brothel, and whose harlots stripped his subjects of their paltry earnings and left them to perish?
The same welcome anomaly is noticed now, when the actresses who play the women of the "hupper circles" with the greatest delicacy and keenness of touch are frequently the products of the lower or middle class. On the other hand, the dame de société who trips lightly from the drawing-room to the stage, amid the blare of trumpets and the excitement of her friends, usually fails to make a mark.
"I'm willin' for anything if you can git the hupper 'and of that 'ere willain and his other self. Nine days, sur only nine days! Let's git to the waccinator. I'd rather have small-pox a dozen times than you should be knocked overboard by sich as he." I was nothing loth, and so, although it was still early, we were soon in a cab on our way to the professor's.
Clearly if the dictum of Halliwell be correct it were better for the daughter of poverty to regard her face as her fortune and hasten to sell herself with approval of law and blessings of holy church to some old duffer with ducats and be welcomed by the "hupper sukkle" as a bright and shining ornament.
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