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Lord Ormont became the subject of inquiry and conversation; and for his own sake not altogether to gratify Matey. The Saturday autumn evening's walk home, after the race out to tea at a distant village, too late in the year for cricket, too early for regular football, suited Matey, going at long strides, for the story of his hero's adventures; and it was nicer than talk about girls, and puzzling.
It makes me feel as if I was studying a great long geography lesson, and it tires me so to learn it." "Amy, dear, you're not well." "Yes, I am, quite well; only I don't want to go away from Nice." "You only have to learn a little bit at a time of your geography lesson, you know," suggested Katy; "and it's a great deal nicer way to study it than out of a book."
But I canna think, he blundered on, 'I'm sayin', I canna think hoo I happened to get yer monkey up to begin wi' 'Excuse me! she cried, indignant. 'My monkey up, indeed! 'Weel, maybe it wasna exac'ly yer monkey up; but I want to ken what way ye didna write a nicer letter afore ye gaed awa'. Nae doobt ye was in a hurry, but it jist seemed as if ye didna care a button for me.
I should not feel it a bit not a single bit; and it would be so much nicer for you." "You are mistaken," said her brother. "It is not staying at home I object to. We are not very tidy or very comfortable, perhaps, but we all belong to each other, at least. It is not that, Ursula." "What is it, then?
Frantically she cast about in her mind for just the right thing to say; but before she had even thought of anything, Jamie's face had undergone a complete change. "But, there, forget it! I didn't mean to say it," he cried gaily. "And 'twas rank heresy to the game, wasn't it? I'm sure I'm GLAD I've got the crutches. They're a whole lot nicer than the wheel chair!" "Sure!
"The girls were all much nicer than I expected," she told him, "and the musical director said that my voice was much too good for the chorus. Oh, I do hope that they will keep me!" "They would be idiots if they didn't," he declared, vigorously. "You sing better and you dance more gracefully and to me you seemed much prettier than any one else there." She laughed into his eyes.
Now there were a number of things he couldn't do, even when asked. He was aging and knotted with rheumatism, and his failing eyes did not now suffice for many of the nicer jobs. Wilbur Cowan came to him and, even as had Porter in the days when the sign was bright, did everything.
Where could you get better omelettes served by a more charming little waitress? was she really charming, I wonder, or did she merely seem so faute de mieux? Where could you find a nicer place to meet your friends from other regiments, to drink coffee, to eat quantities of dainty French cakes?
I have known people with nicer reputations." Clara turned a shade paler. "I can never get away from him," she said. "He follows me everywhere, and " "You do not by any chance, I suppose, owe him money?" Berenice asked. "They tell me that he has a somewhat objectionable habit of winning money from girls, more than they can afford to pay, and then suggesting that it stand over for a time."
"Yes, it very well may" I replied with a smile, yet thinking how much nicer it would be if I married his sister. "I tell you what," he went on presently; "you only imagine yourself to be in love with Sonetchka, whereas I can see that it is all rubbish, and that you do not really know what love means."
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