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If he can get a wife who's ornamental, who has attractive manners, who can convey the appearance of being expensive without being vulgar, she's of a perfectly enormous economic advantage to him. She'd only have to quit buying the sort of clothes he could parade her in, and begin spoiling her looks with a menial domestic routine, to draw howls of protest from him.
As soon as the messenger was seen to reach the gates, Mallett gave the word. The men sprang to their feet. "Don't double, men. We shall be there in time, and it is no use getting out of breath and spoiling your shooting." They were within a hundred yards of the gate, when they heard a shout from the village, and as they pressed on, shot after shot rang out from the wall.
"Father, can you act in plays?" he heard Petya's voice. "Oh, don't worry me with stupid questions!" said Zaikin, getting angry. "He sticks to one like a leaf in the bath! Here you are, six years old, and just as silly as you were three years ago. . . . Stupid, neglected child! Why are you spoiling those cards, for instance? How dare you spoil them?"
It was trying, for the pretty pillows with their snowy white embroidered covers were rumpled and tossed by Genie's mischievous play. "Genie Rose! You go right straight out of my room! You're a naughty little girl and you're spoiling my birthday things!" "Dorothy Rose, With a pug nose!" chanted Genie, with the amiable intention of teasing her sister beyond endurance.
The victors marched unresisted through the country, burning and spoiling, and securing the passes by means of permanent garrisons. Shiloh and its temple were destroyed, and its priesthood scattered abroad. The Philistine supremacy lasted for several years.
Pearl's heart melted, and sitting on the sidewalk she took Danny in her arms, and they cried together. A whirr of wheels aroused Pearl and looking up she saw the kindly face of the young doctor. "What is it, Pearl?" he asked kindly. "Surely that's not Danny I see, spoiling his face that way!" "It's Danny," Pearl said unsteadily.
I was much amused, and tried to make her eat more, pressing her, in fact, till she suddenly got in a rage again, and flung such a furious mica at me, that I would no longer run the risk of spoiling her digestion. I turned to my friend. "My poor Paul," I said, "I am afraid we have had our trouble for nothing."
"Oh, what's the use of spoiling our perfectly good party," complained Grace. "Can't we ever begin to enjoy ourselves but what somebody starts taking all the joy out of life by talking about killing somebody, or something " "Never mind, Gracie," Frank soothed her, nibbling a chicken bone with great relish. "You'll get over it. It may take time "
Some one had cruelly told him that the Sahib was very angry with him for spoiling the garden, and had scattered his rubbish, using bad language the while. Muhammad Din laboured for an hour at effacing every trace of the dust bank and pottery fragments, and it was with a tearful and apologetic face that he said, 'Talaam, Tahib, when I came home from office.
Then I think he remembered that they didn't know who he was, and he smiled and started to turning the glass again. "Pardon!" he said. "Is it not better? What do women know of money? They throw it away on trifles, dress, jewels American women are extravagant. It is one result of their of their spoiling." Mr. Pierce got up and emptied his pipe into the fire. Then he turned.
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