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Her hand clasped his against her heart, she turned her face backward, up to his, closing her eyes so as still not to see his face; the scent of the gardenia in his coat hurt her, so sweet and strong it was. When with her hat on she stood ready to go, it was getting dark. She had come out of her dream now, was playing at make-believe no more.
"When gentry of his sort are first struck with a lady, but not very deep, they speak out their admiration bold and gallant; when they find they're hit seriously, but haven't made sure of her, they speak of her with make-believe carelessness or mere respect: they don't like to show how far gone they are.
"Haven't put out any fires since you got here, have you?" he asked, for Freddie had a great love for playing fireman, and he often put out "make-believe" blazes with a toy fire engine he had, which squirted real water. "No alarms to-day," laughed Freddie, for his father was tickling him in his "fat ribs," as Freddie called them. "How's my little fat fairy?" went on Mr.
And they are almost always ladies, so Phillis says." "What's that?" demanded Russ, puzzled. "It's a ha'nt! It's a lady ha'nt! I do believe it must be!" "Aw, Rose, what you talking about?" demanded her brother, yet secretly quite as much troubled by the strange, eerie sound as she was. "You know that haunts are only make-believe."
Jim was a lion who liked to be interrupted by grown-ups, who was laughing at his make-believe all the time, but Derry was so frightfully in earnest as to often terrify himself, and almost always impress his brother, with his roarings and ravaging. To-day their conversation ran along pleasantly; they were companionable little brothers, and only unmanageable when separated.
As if that was of any consequence. Is it not quite immaterial? Who would fidget about such a trifle? It's only make-believe, after all, and every one is expected to be amused. Then sometimes the public applauded too much to suit his taste, and sometimes too little. "They're like wet wood this evening," he would say; "they won't kindle at all!"
A Frenchman either loves and when he loves he adores on his knees or else he has no use, no use at all, for what English people mean by flirtation the make-believe of love! I should feel much more at ease if the Count had insulted you " "Anna!" "Yes, indeed! I am quite serious. I fear he loves you."
His imaginary guests congratulated him; in empty glasses they toasted the bride, they extolled her beauty, they praised his own gallantry, and vaunted his conquest of the demon rum. As the supper progressed Bob simulated a growing intoxication, while the hired servants looked on as if at the antics of a lunatic. He made it amusing, and Lorelei entered into the spirit of the make-believe.
But confound the make-believe women we have turned loose in our streets! where do they come from? Not out of Boston parlors, I trust. Why, there is n't a beast or a bird that would drag its tail through the dirt in the way these creatures do their dresses.
He was not angry. He was amused. But Cora was persistent. Her coat was a sight. She had to have something. She never had had a real fur coat. "How about your Hudson seal?" "Hudson seal! Did you ever see any seals in the Hudson! Fake fur. I've never had a really decent piece of fur in my life. Always some mangy make-believe. All the girls in the Crowd are getting new coats this year.
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