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The hop farmer should have a lady-bird on his seal ring for his sign and token, for the lady-bird is his great friend. Ignorant of physiology! Yet they did not seem to suffer; the pins did not penetrate the pleura or lodge in the processes. Now Anatomy climbs into the pulpit and shakes a bony fist at the congregation. That is the humerus of it, as Corporal Nym might say.
Our summer homes are on adjoining places and Horson, their stableman, a nice, drinky old person, lets me take out anything I want, anything of Billy's, and, knowing he couldn't trust Horson any more than me, he lent Lady-Bird to a man miles and miles away and I never saw her again until she was a tame old thing I did not want to ride. Billy behaves as if I were a child!
And they could not understand at all why no swift depredating graces nor any habit of long soft hooting belonged to that lady-bird.
It was lucky, after all, that June had broken the ice for him. She must have wormed it out of Bosinney; he might have known she would. He lighted his cigarette. After all, Irene had not made a scene! She would come round that was the best of her; she was cold, but not sulky. And, puffing the cigarette smoke at a lady-bird on the shining table, he plunged into a reverie about the house.
"If you knew what I had brought for my lady-bird, you would be on your prettiest behavior and give me your best welcome," said Tom. "It's bon-bons!" cried Elsie with a shriek of delight. "The ogre means pralines and caramels and marons glacés!" "Come down and see," said Tom, mysteriously. Elsie danced downstairs and entered the room where her sister sat. "Ugh, the ugly place!" said she.
"If that old walrus, Pfingst, has dared to send me flowers again!" she cried, pouncing on the card and holding it so they both could read it. Penciled in small, even lines were the words: Sorry to find the lady-bird flown. Will call up in the morning. Even in the dimly lighted hall, Quin could see the flush that suffused Eleanor's face. "It's Harold Phipps," she said, trying to be casual.
"Ain't you got a knife, then?" growled the brutal Toadie "talks like a Miss." "Say! look at this chap's lady-bird." Bandy Dick held something aloft. "He won't want no lady-bird no more. She'll ave to get another fancy-man." Followed filthiest jests on women ... love.... Such love! Pah! Were they men? The beasts were purer.
He stepped into the fly and drove up with us to the house, expounding to me as we went some recent researches which he had made into the anatomy of the lady-bird. I have said that Sir Thomas Rossiter wore a large hat drawn down over his brows. As he entered the hall he uncovered himself, and I was at once aware of a singular characteristic which the hat had concealed.
"And so you have done all this for me. You and the poor little angel? Why you must have worked night and day! and Isabel, what portion of the work has my lady-bird done?" added the happy man, sitting down and placing the child on his knee. "Oh, she has done a great deal!" said Mary in a low but eager voice, creeping to Chester's side.
This curious money, which receives the name of loques rags has an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of children. Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the daddy-long-legs, "the devil," a black insect, which menaces by twisting about its tail armed with two horns.
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