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Talks like she thought gettin' married was some game like issuin' long-term bonds maturin' about 1950." "If you only knew how stupid and dull it's going to be for me there!" says Vee, poutin'. "With you that far off," says I, "New York ain't goin' to seem so gay for a certain party." "I suppose I must go, though," says Vee. "I don't get it," says I. "Oh, but I must," says she.
"Now dar wuz er nudder little Fraid name Dreary; an' she wuz sad an' gloomy, an' neber dance, nor play, nor nuf'n; but would jes go off poutin', like to herse'f. Well, one day she seed er big flat stone under a tree.
Do for gracious sake behave yourself: and she colored up all over like a crimson piany; if you hav'nt foozled all my hair too, that's a fact, says she; and she put her curls to rights, and looked as pleased as fun, though poutin all the time, and walked right out of the room.
Do for gracious sake behave yourself! and she coloured up all over like a crimson piany; 'if you havn't foozled all my hair too, that's a fact, says she; and she put her curls to rights, and looked as pleased as fun, though poutin' all the time, and walked right out of the room.
Say, if she'd come poutin' around, or said right out that she didn't see why I couldn't make myself useful now and then, I'd have announced flat that gardenin' was way out of my line. But when she snickers well, you know how it is. "Yessum! Me," says I. "It ain't any art, is it, just stirrin' up the ground with a spade? And how do you know, Vee, but what I'm the grandest little digger ever was?
Fort'nately, I've got a pretty fat lump of a nose of my own, an' my lips are pretty thick by natur', so that with a little what you may call hard poutin' when I had to pass guards, janissaries, an' such like, I managed to get to where Missis Lilly an' Sally lived, an' they sent me on here.
A good deal of a queen Miss Ull is too, tall and slim and tinted up delicate, but one of these poutin', peevish beauts that can look you over cold and distant and say "Howdy do" in such a bored, tired tone that you feel like apologizin' for the intrusion. They didn't get wildly enthusiastic over my entrance, Miss Ull and Westy.
Next she wants to practice a new fancy dance, and so on. She keeps Westy trottin' around, and Vee comin' and goin', and things stirred up gen'rally. One minute she's gigglin' hysterical over nothin' at all, and the next she's poutin' sulky.
"Well, 'tain't no use fur nobody to be poutin' an' sullin'. 'Tain't gwine do 'em no good. 'Tain't gwine budge me nary hair's brea'th frum whut I considers to be my plain duty. Ef folkses don't lak it so much de wuss fur dem, present company not excepted. Dat's my say an' I done said it!" And out of the room she marched with her head held defiantly high. That night there were callers.
"It may have been a little affair to him," says Gerald, poutin' a bit sulky; "but it wasn't so to me. It it changed my whole life utterly!" "Of course," puts in J. Bayard soothin'. "We understand that, Mr. Webb." "But you've come out all right; you struck something just as good, or better, eh?" and I waves round at the teashop.
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