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Where's Kate, eh? Not visible yet, I suppose." "No, not till the parson comes," interrupted Mr Kennedy, convulsing his left cheek. "Hollo, Charley, where are you? Ah! bring the cigars, Charley. Sit down, gentlemen; make yourselves at home. I say, Mrs Taddi Taddi oh, botheration popple! that's it your name, madam, is a puzzler but we'll need more chairs, I think. Fetch one or two, like a dear!"
He stood near, without speaking. The wind dragged a shirt-sleeve from the 'popple' or pebble which held it down. Pierston stooped and put a heavier one in its place. 'Thank you, she said quietly. She turned up her hazel eyes, and seemed gratified to perceive that her assistant was Pierston.
He said it almost as Popple might have said "A DENTIST?" and Undine found herself astray in a new labyrinth of social distinctions. She felt a sudden contempt for Harry Lipscomb, who had already struck her as too loud, and irrelevantly comic. "I guess Mabel'll get a divorce pretty soon," she added, desiring, for personal reasons, to present Mrs. Lipscomb as favourably as possible. Mr.
Thou wert always like a very popple for hardness, and smoothness, ay, and slipperiness. Heigh ho! But what is right by the lads, thou shalt do." John cowered under her eye as he had done at six years old, and faltered, "I only seek to do them right, nurse."
In addition, of course, she had the Shallums, the Chauncey Ellings, May Beringer, Dicky Bowles, Walsingham Popple, and the rest of the New York frequenters of the Nouveau Luxe; she had even, at the last minute, had the amusement of adding Peter Van Degen to their number.
It is a sad fact that "Grasshopper" had a bunch of matches in his pocket, and the boys meant to build a fire. Horace gathered the dry sticks and crossed them, so all Grasshopper had to do was to strike a match, and the fire was soon crackling briskly. "How it pops!" said Prudy, "just like corn." "I reckon this is popple wood," said Horace, "and they call it so because it pops in the fire."
Popple said his name was Ralph"; while her mother continued: "Undine met them both last night at that party downstairs. And from something Mr. Popple said to her about going to one of the new plays, she thought " "How on earth do you know what I thought?" Undine flashed back, her grey eyes darting warnings at her mother under their straight black brows. "Why, you SAID you thought " Mrs.
Not that she accused herself of extravagance: she had done nothing not really necessary. The drawing-room, for instance, cried out to be "done over," and Popple, who was an authority on decoration, had shown her, with a few strokes of his pencil how easily it might be transformed into a French "period" room, all curves and cupids: just the setting for a pretty woman and his portrait of her.
Popple never fails to mention it." Undine's ear was too well attuned to the national note of irony for her not to perceive that her companions were making sport of the painter. She winced at their banter as if it had been at her own expense, yet it gave her a dizzy sense of being at last in the very stronghold of fashion. Her attention was diverted by hearing Mrs.
Ah! bring the cigars, Charley. Sit down, gentlemen; make yourselves at home I say, Mrs. Taddi Taddi oh, botheration popple! that's it your name, madam, is a puzzler-but-we'll need more chairs, I think. Fetch one or two, like a dear!" As he spoke the jingle of bells was heard outside, and Mr. Kennedy rushed to the door again. "Good-evening, Mr.
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