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Then Clive told us of his deeds during the winter; of the good fun he had had at Rome, and the jolly fellows he had met there. Was he going to astonish the world by some grand pictures? He was not. The more he worked, the more discontented he was with his performances somehow: but J. J. was coming out very strong, J. J. was going to be a stunner.
"But where could I mean, shall we elope to?" she finally asked. "Anywhere. Bombay Australia? Let's make it a stunner, dear let's do it up right." "And be married away over there? Oh, Hugh!" "Certainly. They can marry us over there as well as anywhere. Here, I'll write the names of ten places and we'll draw one from my hat."
More than I was prepared for, though I heard all about the lion and that he has been a regular stunner in Australia eh, Lucy, just like a hero of Whyte-Melville's, eh?" "I don't think so." "And, to complete it all, what has he been doing to little Viola Tracy? Oh, what fun! Carrying her off bodily to see you, wasn't it?
A young woman who was a stunner, who rode wild horses and fell off them and rode them again, was beyond the pale not only of Euphrasia's experience but of her imagination likewise. And this hoyden had talked as though she took an interest in Austen! Euphrasia was speechless. "The next time I saw her," said Tom, "was when she came down here to listen to Humphrey Crewe's attacks on the railroad.
Her mother stared at her speechless, and it was such an unusual thing for Mrs. Quincy to be struck dumb that Lena was correspondingly elated as she rattled on. "Such dresses! I'd give anything to have such clothes and wear them with that kind of an every-day, don't-care air. My, but Mrs. Lenox is a stunner! But the Lenoxes are just rolling in money; and they say Mr.
Dave was a good-lookin' chap, too; but we couldn't get her to say a word not one. We finished the first blanky course, and, while she was gettin' our puddin' from the side-table, Dave says to me in a loud whisper, so's she could hear: "Ain't she a stunner, Joe! I never thought there was sich fine girls on the Darlin'!" But no; she wouldn't speak.
"One stunner between three of us isn't enough." "Well, we have this." Tom unbuckled Roger Hunter's gun case from his belt. "Dad's revolver. It's not a stunner, but it might help." He tossed the case to Johnny. "I can give you both a rundown on how the shafts go. We could plan to meet at a certain spot in a certain length of time...." He broke off, looking at Johnny.
"But I could buy a waggon-load of 'em for one day's pay, an' not have any tuggin' and scratchin' with 'em. Melons ain't too stinkin', but lor', tomatoes is a stunner! They rotted till you couldn't stand the smell of them, and it would give a billy-goat the pip to hear them mentioned. There was no sale, and the blow-flies took to 'em. One man down here had thirty acres.
His few attempts to talk to her fell flat, and in spite of the captain's almost nervous attempts to improve the festivity of the occasion, the meal was an uncomfortable one. "Where's old Armstrong?" demanded Tom. "With Roger," replied Rosalind. "Have you seen Armstrong?" inquired the boy of the visitor; "he's a stunner, I can tell you. He can bend a poker double across his knee.
"This picture is, I understand, Eugene, a stunner. Give us chairs and some brandy and soda and trot it out," said Ayre. Morewood was unmoved by their frivolity. He tugged at his ragged red beard for a moment or two while they were settling themselves. "I'll show you this first," he said, taking up one of the canvases that leant against the wall.
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