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"'Well, I says, 'that ain't the sort of thing to be humpy about. "'Yes it is, he snaps back; 'it means that if I don't take precious good care I'll drift into being a blooming milkman, spending my life yelling "Milk ahoi!" and spooning smutty-faced servant-gals across area railings. "'Oh! I says, 'and what may you prefer to spoon duchesses?
I asked him what kind of wheels, and he said he guessed they were rubber-tired, because she was always rubbering and she made people tired. You know Zeke is such a joker, so I haven't found out yet what aunt Madge meant, and it isn't any matter because" Jewel reached up and hugged her mother, "you've come home." Here the two men approached. "No more time for spooning," said Harry cheerfully.
Spooning with him last night on the pier. The father is rotto with money. Is she up the pole? Better ask Seymour that. Seymour a bleeding officer! Buck Mulligan said. He nodded to himself as he drew off his trousers and stood up, saying tritely: Redheaded women buck like goats. He broke off in alarm, feeling his side under his flapping shirt. My twelfth rib is gone, he cried. I'm the Uebermensch.
It's their style of spooning, I suppose." Mrs. Jim smiled tenderly. "Ah, that's in the intervals bless 'em." And so Love ran about the camp unrebuked in broad daylight, while men picked up the pieces and put them neatly away of the Famine in the Eight Districts.
Only I'm afraid they'll make a mess of it among them. Auntie's ill and in bed, Rosalind and Roger are spooning about in the grounds, Armstrong's got the dismals, and the governor's not to be disturbed. I've got to look after everything. The spread will be good enough only I think they ought to have roasted an ox whole in the hall; don't you?
"Didn't know she had any money," I observed timidly. "Sure to have," said my brother, with confidence. "Heaps and heaps." "Bobby Ferris told me," began Edward in due course, "that there was a fellow spooning his sister once " "What's spooning?" I asked meekly. "Oh, I dunno," said Edward, indifferently. "It's it's it's just a thing they do, you know.
The kind of fellow that kicks about working overtime, that wants to spend his evenings reading trashy novels or spooning and exchanging a lot of nonsense and foolishness with some girl, he ain't the kind of upstanding, energetic young man, with a future and with Vision! that we want here. How about it? What's your Ideal, anyway?
"Grouchiness," she called it; "probably that's why he don't take to Jacky," she thought; "well, it's lucky he don't, for he shouldn't have him!" But as Maurice, on the little porch, said good-by, she really wondered at his queerness in not taking to Jacky, who, grimy and handsome, was sitting on the ground, spooning earth into an empty lard pail. "Come in out o' the dirt, Sweety!"
But a stiff gale caught the Prince's craft which went spooning till they made a second island, where they landed and walked about. Presently they came upon a spring of running water in the midst of the island and saw from afar a man sitting hard by it.
She was utterly surprised at the pleasurable sensation she experienced at having Kent's arm about her. The others were singing but for once Lydia's throaty contralto did not join in. So this was spooning! Of course, she wouldn't let anybody but Kent do this. And what did it amount to, anyhow! If this was all there was to spooning, why did people think it was wrong?
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