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Rather a classy lookin' party, Mrs. Steele is as she shows up in a stunnin' house gown, good lines, fine complexion, and all that. Takes mighty good care of herself, so Sadie says, with two French maids to help. She don't stint herself that way. And the little streak of early gray through her front hair gives her sort of a distinguished look.
"They want a young lady to play the pianner at a dime museum, for nine dollars a week. It's a bully chance. I just told the manager he's a friend of mine that I had a young lady friend that was a stunnin' player, and he wants you to come around and see him."
Some stunnin' Aunt Zenobia looks, for all her gray hair; and Mr. Ballard, in his Scotch tweed suit and with his ruddy cheeks, don't look a day over fifty. They're giggling merry over some remark of Lizzie's, and Zenobia calls in through the draperies. "Hello, Martha Torchy everybody!" she sings out. "Well, here we are, back from that absurd boardwalk resort, back to well, for the love of ladies!
'Gay, thinks I; 'go in and win. So I did; made love hand over hand, while I stayed with Joe; pupposed a fortnight after, married her in three months, and there she is, a tiptop little woman, with a pair of stunnin' boys in her arms!" Out came a well-worn case, and Dick proudly displayed the likeness of a stout, much bejewelled young woman with two staring infants on her knee.
'Gay, thinks I; 'go in and win. So I, did; made love hand over hand, while I stayed with Joe; pupposed a fortnight after, married her in three months, and there she is, a tip-top little woman, with a pair of stunnin' boys in her arms!" Out came a well-worn case, and Dick proudly displayed the likeness of a stout, much bejewelled young woman, with two staring infants on her knee.
He saw the point. And, say, he did his work thorough. I saw no more of Mrs. Shaw until nearly two weeks later, when Steele towed me down to the steamer. "Which one?" says I, lookin' at the crowd along the rail. "Ah, come off! That with the veils and the stunnin' figure the one wavin' this way? That ain't never Mrs. Fletcher Shaw!" "That's Josie," says he.
Not that he wasn't all right in his way, but well, it was just a case of bein' more ornamental than useful. A bit thick in the head, Warrie. But it was a stunnin' head reg'lar Apollonaris Belvidere. He had wavy brown hair, and big, peaceful brown eyes. Stood a little over six feet too, and they say that when it came to ridin' a spotted pony and swingin' a polo mallet he was all there.
The costumes of the family had been tried on the day before: the Colonel's black suit fitted exceedingly well; his lady's velvet dress displayed her contours to advantage; Miss Matilda's flowered silk was considered superb; the eldest son of the family, Mr. T. Jordan Sprowle, called affectionately and elegantly "Geordie," voted himself "stunnin'"; and even the small youth who had borne Mr.
"Tell me the instant minute you see Pa a comin', and I'll dish up the gravy," was Mrs. Wilkins's command, as she stepped in with a cup of tea for old "Harm," as she called Hepsey's mother. "He's a comin', Ma!" called Gusty, presently. "No, he ain't: it's a trainer," added Ann Lizy. "Yes, 'tis Pa! oh, my eye! ain't he stunnin'!" cried Wash, stricken for the first time with admiration of his sire.
"She surely ought to be glad," said Tom. The Lady Clarabel was another fair-haired lady in a gown of the brightest pink. "This here beauty's for the baby," said Harvey, his eyes glowing. "She don't care if the hair's black or yellow, but won't that stunnin' dress make her eyes pop out?" "They'll surely believe in Santy when they see those beauties," said Tom.
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