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Might seem to you mere soppy sentiment." Broome's sailor eyes twinkled. "You pay me the compliment, my son, of treating me as if I were a fellow-undergrad! It's only the 'teens and the twenties of this very new century that are so mortally afraid of sentiment the main factor in human happiness. If you had not a strong sentiment for India, you would be unworthy of your mother.
It was now neither air-tight nor water-tight; the floor, or rather the ground, was soaked and soppy with mud; the nice warm snow-grass on which I had lain so comfortably the night before I left, was muddy and wet; altogether, there being no fire inside, the place was as revolting-looking an affair as one would wish to see: coming wet and cold off a journey, we had hoped for better things.
Full in the tunnels of snow water on gravelly, open spaces in the shadow of a drift, one looks to find buttercups, frozen knee-deep by night, and owning no desire but to ripen their fruit above the icy bath. Soppy little plants of the portulaca and small, fine ferns shiver under the drip of falls and in dribbling crevices.
"Not me, though," Sally assured her. "Soppy ones do. I'm not soppy. And I'll tell you what. I'm going to get you out of this place." "I ain't going to live with you and him!" declared Mrs. Minto in alarm. "I wouldn't!" "No. You're going to live somewhere else. I want you to get away from here. You're going to have two decent rooms ... in Stoke Newington.
'Goodness me! said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this? for, you see, I thought a deal about her having a pair of smart shoes; and this year she has gone and got me a white satin pair just as smart as hers, for a surprise. 'Molly will know she's to put on her best clothes, said Miss Browning.
"Miss Winters, the old incubus, came around and was soppy to mother as usual yesterday the same old business I might be studying in Paris, now, instead of teaching drawing to stupid little girls, if I hadn't 'formed' what she will call 'that unfortunate attachment. Not that I minded, really, though I was angry enough to bite her when she gave a long undertaker's list of Penniless Authors' Brides.
And Hector looked up with shining eyes in the face of the little boy, while he pulled at his rosin-ends as if he would make the boot strong enough to keep out evil spirits. "I think it's a fine thing to have to make nice new shoes," said Willie; "but I don't think I should like to mend them when they are soppy and muddy and out of shape."
All the same, her walk had lost its savour, and she returned home earlier than usual. How miserable it was that she had no other girl of her own age to go about with. Boys always went in twos. So did girls. The one gave the other courage. Yet Sally was done with May. May was soppy.
Without the least warning, she leaped forward at three-quarter speed, and started up stream with that haughty head of her thrust skyward! I clung desperately to her gunwale, and she dragged me insultingly in the drink! She made a soppy rag of me! I managed to scramble aboard something after the fashion of a bronco-buster who mounts at a gallop. But the way she traveled!
He seemed to see Fate as a thin female with a soppy expression and pince-nez, sniffing a little as she worked the thing out. He could picture her glutinous satisfaction as she re-read her scenario and gloated over its sure-fire qualities. There was not a flaw in the construction.
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