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It seemed a new experience to be sitting at their desks, drinking tea and eating cakes, instead of doing translation or writing exercises. "Pity the Snark didn't stop! She doesn't know what she's missing!" remarked Joanna Powers, as she took a meringue. "Oh, Kafoozalum! We shouldn't have had much fun if the Snark had stayed! Don't bring her back, for goodness' sake, Jo!" "I wasn't going to!
Kafoozalum! Kafoozalum!" Besides all these things and many more, there was a Commander-in-chief, and an Inspector-General of Cavalry, and the principal veterinary officer of all India standing on the top of a regimental coach, yelling like school-boys; and brigadiers and colonels and commissioners, and hundreds of pretty ladies joined the chorus.
Don't flatter yourself she'll remember about your crochet-needle." "I know she won't the slacker! I shall just have to go and rout her up, and make her find it. Oh, kafoozalum! It's a weary world!" Peggy rose languidly, stretched her arms, and strolled in the direction of the door, which at that identical moment opened to admit the missing Sadie.
As soon as the people saw no one was hurt, ten thousand native and English shouted and clapped and yelled, and before any one could stop them the pipers of the Skidars broke on to the ground, with all the native officers and men behind them, and marched up and down, playing a wild Northern tune called "Zakhme Began," and through the insolent blaring of the pipes and the high-pitched native yells you could hear the Archangels' band hammering, "For they are all jolly good fellows," and then reproachfully to the losing team, "Ooh, Kafoozalum!
Bushes and garden paths were plainly distinguished in the starlight. "It'll be light soon," said Diana, "and, at any rate, I can see quite well enough to ride. I shall just enjoy spinning along." "Be careful going down hills," urged Loveday. "By the by, you're on the early practising-list this morning had you forgotten?" "Oh, kafoozalum! So I am! Suppose Bunty comes to see why the piano's silent?
I love dancing, but I don't want to worry about being graceful all day long!" "That's just the point, though," persisted Phillida, who was a zealous convert. "The dances are to make you graceful always. You so get into the poetry of motion that it's quite impossible for you ever to flop again!" "Is it? Oh, Kafoozalum!" burbled Noreen, exploding into a series of chuckles.
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