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I'm glad of it. It will give Norma a chance to go too." "There are only four freshmen in this house," stated Jane. "One of them is out of the question for us." "I get you," returned Judith slangily. "Undoubtedly you refer to the ignoble Miss Noble. Noble by name but not by nature," she added with a chuckle. Jane smiled, then frowned.
"I suppose we'd have to go home again," answered Laura, adding with a little worried frown: "Oh, I do hope I can get the book. I wouldn't lose it for anything." "There goes Amanda Peabody," cried Violet suddenly, clutching Billie's arm. "That makes no difference in my young life," Billie slangily assured her.
You'll agree with me, Skinner, that if he delivers the blue vase he'll be worth ten thousand dollars a year as our Oriental manager?" "I'll say he will," Mr. Skinner replied slangily. "Very well, then. Arrange matters, Skinner, so that he will be available for me at one o'clock, a week from Sunday. I'll attend to the other details." Mr. Skinner nodded.
"Pooh! Let her go. Mean old thing!" exclaimed Bess. "And you didn't say anything to get her mad. Crocodile tears! what did I tell you? Linda Riggs is a regular cat " "Both cat and crocodile?" giggled Nan. "Your natural history, Bess, honey, must be slightly twisted." "I've about got that girl's number, just the same," said Bess, slangily. "You wait, Nan.
When the train had rounded the curve and disappeared with one last challenging blast of the whistle, Billie and Chet turned to each other, feeling as lost and forlorn as the babes in the wood. "Now, what do we do next?" breathed Billie, breaking the silence at last. "I feel helpless, Chet." "Well, I don't think you have anything on me," admitted Chet slangily.
"Our living used to be simple enough when I was a kid. I think I can relish a little simplicity again for a change. Mamma's been trying for four years to marry me off to her conception of an eligible man. It didn't matter a hang about his essential qualities so long as he had money and an assured social position." "Forget that," Charlie counseled slangily.
Field looked at her husband. "Why, Ed, he is playing Sarasate!" "That's what he is," he returned slangily, too much astonished to do more than gaze. Williams played on. There was a faint defect in the high notes, as if his fingers did not touch the strings properly, but his bow action showed cultivation and breadth of feeling.
Even those who had been her "chums" had wandered like shades through the groves of her affection: rough, teasing Bertha; pretty, lazy Inez; perky Tilly, slangily frank Maria and Kate, Mary and her moral influence, clever, instructive Cupid: to none of them had she been drawn by any deeper sense of affinity.
"Of course he'll round up the crowd," assured Jerry slangily. "If he doesn't, I will. I guess I won't go to Sargent's with you. What is mere ice cream when compared to a dance? Besides, it's fattening the ice cream, I mean. I've lost five pounds this summer and I'm not going to find them again at Sargent's if I can help it. So long, I'll see you all to-night."
He peruses the slangily worded ads of the "classy clothes" tailors, and when scarlet cravats are worn the small-town boy is not more than two weeks late in acquiring one that glows like a headlight. Louie found a rooming-house, shoved his suitcase under the bed, changed his collar, washed his hands in the gritty water of the wash bowl, and started out to look for a job. Louie was twenty-one.
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