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Growing wise with experience, she discovered that she could get a black sateen shirt-waist for fifty cents. Rubbers and a cotton umbrella took another dollar and a half. She must save at least a dollar to send back the suit-case by express.
It was pleasant at the school, that book about bones was going to be very interesting. Aunt Olivia was not to worry about the rubbers, and Rebecca Mary would never forget to air her clothes when they came from the wash. Yes, she had aired the nightgown that Aunt Olivia ironed the last thing. No, she hadn't needed any liniment yet, but she wouldn't get any in her eyes.
They had no waterproofs nor rubbers, of course; over their shoulders they wore gunnysacks simply conductors for rivers of water; some of the volume reached the ground; the rest soaked in on the way. "At last a vigorous fellow of thirty-five arrived, dry and comfortable, smoking his pipe under his big umbrella in an open donkey-cart-husband, son, and grandson of those women!
'Why, then, said Nixon, somewhat surprised at the readiness of his answer, 'all will go smooth, of course you will take share in this noble undertaking, and, when it succeeds, you will exchange your open helmet for an earl's coronet perhaps. 'And how if it fails? said Darsie. 'Thereafter as it may be, said Nixon; 'they who play at bowls must meet with rubbers.
McGuire laughed lightly. "No. That's the one thing I leave off the first possible minute. Some way, I feel as if I was helpin' along the spring." "Humph! Well, I should help along somethin' 'sides spring, I guess, if I did it. Besides, it strikes me rubbers ain't the only thing you're leavin' off." Susan's disapproving eyes had swept now to Mrs. McGuire's unprotected head and shoulders.
Sir Francis Cromarty had observed the oddity of his traveling companion although the only opportunity he had for studying him had been while he was dealing the cards, and between two rubbers and questioned himself whether a human heart really beat beneath this cold exterior, and whether Phileas Fogg had any sense of the beauties of nature.
She was perfectly calm; she put on her coat and hat and opened the front door; then saw the gleam of lights on the wet pavement and felt the March drizzle in her face; she reflected that it would be very wet in the meadow, and went back for her rubbers. When the car came banging cheerfully along, she boarded it and sat so that she would be able to see Lily's house.
"A little more, and we'd have to take you over to the hospital," commented Smythe, as he looked at me, while I lay prone on my back, resting, under shelter of the tent. "Who who used up all this witch-hazel?" he asked of the rubbers.... I hid my face in the grass, pretending to groan from the strain I had just undergone.
But I have studied this inert mass, and, as each person has special characteristics, some being more partial than others to, say, Literary pursuits, Athletics, Music, Poetry, Engineering, Science, or Metaphysics, so I am able to show that this iron mass has not only a number of these "partials," some of which are extraordinarily beautiful and powerful, audible over long distances, but that by the lightest touch of certain small generating rubbers, not more than an ounce in weight and tipped with cork or leather, each of which has been put into perfect sympathy with one of those traits, I can make that mass demonstrate them both optically and audibly; but, without those special sympathetic touches, it is silent and remains an inert mass.
"'Why don't you give the lady some room? I says to Peewee, 'n' he gets up 'n' leaves her have the trunk. "'You're a real polite young man, says Mrs. Boone to me. "We ain't more'n got started when the dame lets out a holler. "'Orphy! she yells, 'Stop! Wait a minute! Whoa! Orphy comes 'n' yanks off the trolley. "'I declare to goodness! says Mrs. Boone. 'I've furgot my rubbers.
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