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The halt was made beside the wash-tub, and childish curiosity promptly asserted itself. "You ain't washin' more clothes, poppa?" demanded Vada, with wide questioning eyes. "Ain't this Sunday?" "Pop-pa wash tothes," mumbled Jamie. Sunny took it upon himself to put the matter right in the small minds. He beamed upon the children. "Poppa's going to wash you," he said, with unction.
The gentleman's outfitter suddenly turned his back, and stood thus for an instant struggling with something like a spasm. Knowing that if there's one thing in the world momma hates it's the exhibition of poppa's sense of humour, I walked to the door. When I came back they were measuring the Senator. "Will you have the American shoulder, sir? Most of our customers prefer it." "Well, no.
Susie sprang up from the disordered supper-table and ran to him like a frightened child, clinging to him desperately and crying out that Ed scared her so! "It's all right now, Susie," he said gently, not looking at the man. "Poppa's come to take you home." The man felt his dignity wounded.
They laughed loudly, "Oh, yes, we know all about this sudden enthusiasm for Poppa's society. Where are you going to meet Paul?" Lydia looked about at the crush of drays, trolley-cars, and delivery-wagons jamming the busy street, "Well, not here down-town," she replied, her tone one of satisfied security.
He moved his cracked patent-leather pump in a sort of pattern on the floor. Again he looked up, this time with a freakish, an almost elfin flicker of his extravagant eyelashes. "There's something I could be real well," he said. "Only, I guess Poppa's got there ahead of me. I could be a dandy guardian to you Sheila." Again Sheila laughed. But the ringing of her silver coins was not quite true.
"You honest think all that, Sheila?" he had asked her patiently. She had started again, standing now to face him and beginning to be angry at his look. This boy whom she had lifted up to be her friend! "Say," Dickie had drawled, "Poppa's some guardian!" He had advanced upon her as though he wanted to shake her. "You gotta give it right up, Sheila," he had said sternly. "Sooner than immediately.
Dicky was for taking my parents into our confidence as a measure of preparation, but with poppa's commands upon me with regard to Arthur, I felt a delicacy as to the subject of engagements generally. Besides, one never can tell whether one's poppa and momma would back one up in a thing like that. I never could quite understand Mrs. Portheris's increasingly good opinion of us at this point.
The vessel was at that stage of departure when the people who have been turned off are feeling injured that it should have been done so soon, and apparently only the weight of poppa's personality on its New York end kept the gangway out. As we drove up he appeared to lift his little finger and three dishevelled navigators darted upon the cab.
The moon rose, and threw Arthur's shadow across our conversation, but we looked at it with precision and it moved away. That is one of poppa's most comforting characteristics, he would as soon open his bosom to a shot-gun as to a confidence. He asked for details through the telephone merely for bravado.
"My idea was three hundred," I replied. "And how many words to a page?" "Two hundred and fifty more or less." "That's seventy-five thousand words! Pretty big undertaking, if you look at it in bulk." "We shall have to rely upon momma," I remarked. Poppa's expression disparaged the idea, and he began to feel round for his beard. "If I were you," he said, "I wouldn't place much dependence on momma.
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