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He wants to live in one of the built-in-bed flats on Wasserman Avenue, like all the swell young marrieds. He's making twenty-six hundred now, mama, and if he makes good in the new Oklahoma territory, his Uncle Mark is is going to take care of him better. Ain't it like a dream, mama your little Selene all of a sudden in with the somebodies?"
Instead, eyes purred abstract, tender eyes; the kind that attracted women sometimes because they were almost like a women's eyes dreaming of lovers. "Hello, Tesla!" Again the fawning lights, smiles, bowings. This was Dorn a Somebody. Somebodies always changed Tesla.
"Ah, Madame!" "And M'sieur Choucru shall make you one of his famous cheese soufflés. Tiens, mon bon, go down and prepare a cheese soufflé for two." Müller smote his forehead distractedly. "For two!" he cried. "Heavens! I had forgotten my aunt and my cousin!" Madame looked up inquiringly. "Monsieur has forgotten something?" "Two somethings, Madame two somebodies!
Although he didn't quite see the logic of the foregoing, Sam Redding gave a sage nod and agreed that his leader was right. "Yes, those kids need a good lesson from somebody," chimed in Bill Bender. "I think we had better be the 'somebodies' to give it to them," rejoined Jack Curtiss. "They are getting insufferable.
"One clear-headed hour is worth a dozen muddled ones. You do as I say." "I hate drugs," he said, rising again. "So do I; but there is a time for everything under the sun. It is a crying necessity that you go into this fight perfectly fit and with all your wits about you. If you don't, somebody several somebodies will land in the penitentiary. Will you mind me?"
I can imagine it happening to you and your husband. But it would never happen to Gregory and me. We shall have to make money and cut a dash in order to attract attention, and by-and-by, if we are persistent and clever enough, we may be recognized as somebodies, provided there is something original or interesting about us. There! I have told you my secret and shocked you into the bargain.
There was a thing in him that smirked before Somebodies, as if he were a timorous puppy wagging its tail and leaping about on flabby legs. "Mrs. Dorn is sitting here with a friend. They're dancing. We're all at this table, Mr. Dorn." Dorn caught the eager innuendo of his voice. He knew Tesla vaguely as a radical, an author of pamphlets.
Somebody about Hay's place was mighty anxious to cover his tracks." But a dozen "somebodies" besides the stablemen hung there at all hours of the day, infesting the broad veranda, the barroom and stores, striving to barter the skin of coyote, skunk or beaver, or, when they had nothing to sell, pleading for an unearned drink.
Scarcely had she made the first onset, when the door-bell was heard to ring, and soon Bridget coming nearer and nearer then tapping at the door. "Somebodies wants to see you in the parlor, ma'am." "Tell them I am engaged, Bridget." "I told 'em you were to-home, ma'am, and they sent up their names, but I ha'n't got 'em, jist." There was no help for it Mrs. James must go down to receive her callers.
Miss Mazerod replied; and both young ladies stood up to curtsey to the Royal party. It was the great artistic soiree of the year, and crowds of nobodies jostled each other in their mad desire to deceive whosoever might be credulous into the belief that they were somebodies.
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