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"You might smarten yourself with that change, Elmore," she addressed him, ignoring his companion. "There's folks coming back for it. Two-dollar bill, wa'n't it? Fifty cents seventy-five dollar'n a half. That's a Yankee dime, an' you kin march straight back with it. They don't pass but for nine cents, as you're old enough to know.
'Yes; he bought out the Cumberers. They never did any good with Honeysuckle Flat, though the land was so good. He's going to lay it all down in lucerne, he says. 'And then he'll smarten up the cottage, and sister Aileen 'll go over, and live in it, says Jim; 'and a better thing she couldn't do. 'I don't know, she said. 'Poor George, I wish I was fonder of him.
My duties in the riding-school were always over before mid-day, and as noon was the hour appointed by the young lieutenant to present me to his colonel, I was ready by that time, and anxiously awaiting his arrival. I had done my best to smarten up my uniform, and make all my accoutrements bright and glistening.
No one is likely to tell her that Mary has furnished all at Tom's hint "We must smarten up the place, for the poor wife's sake. It will take something off the shock; and I want to avoid shocks for her."
Every night, the moment the young ladies have retired to rest, does Miss Twinkleton smarten up her curls a little, brighten up her eyes a little, and become a sprightlier Miss Twinkleton than the young ladies have ever seen. Miss Twinkleton's companion in both states of existence, and equally adaptable to either, is one Mrs.
"Brush the black frocks over thy arm and then go and smarten thysen up a bit. It will be dinner-time before thou hes thy work done." "Happen it may. I'm not caring and Missis isn't caring, either. She'll never wear these frocks again she might as well give them to me." In the meantime Jane was looking at herself in the long cheval mirror.
Here's to Gentleman George, God bless him! 'Mong the pals of the prince I have heard it's the go, Before they have tippled enough, To smarten their punch with the best curagoa, More conish to render the stuff. I boast not such lush; but whoever his glass Does not like, I'll be hanged if I press him! Upstanding, my kiddies, round, round let it pass! Here's to Gentleman George, God bless him!
"There is nothing else left!" said he to himself, and he went home to smarten himself up. That evening, at seven, he arrived in a hackney cab at Madame de la Baudraye's door, and begged the porter to send a note up to the Countess a few lines, as follows: "Would Madame la Comtesse do Monsieur Lousteau the favor of receiving him for a moment, and at once?"
There's a sight o' difference between good upland fruit and the sposhy apples that grows in wet ground. An' I take it that the bar'l has an influence: some bar'ls kind of wilt cider and some smarten it up, and keep it hearty. Lord! what stuff some folks are willin' to set before ye! 'tain't wuth the name o' cider, nor no better than the rensin's of a vinegar cask."
I'll smarten yer up a bit by Gawd I'll break yer bleed'n' 'earts afore I've done wi' yer by Gawd I will. When I tells yer ter do a thing yer've got ter do it, else there'll be trouble, Gawd strike me blind. Now then, let's see what yer can do." He gave his orders more slowly and performed each movement himself while we imitated him as best we could.
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