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She was a fat, pudgy little princess who longed to grow up and have hoop-skirts like a real sure-enough woman princess, and there came along a tall prince the tallest, handsomest prince in all the wide world, I think. And he and the princess fell in love, as princesses and princes will, you know, my dear, just as they do now, I am told.
But I guess that is what a good many of them need, sir." As the Ensign appeared to be at least twenty-five years old that respectful "sir" struck young Benson's ear queerly. "Pardon me, gentlemen, but be seated," suggested Lieutenant Jack, suddenly, as he realized that his chums and this one sure-enough naval officer were all standing.
"I won't please. While we're in Sure-Enough Country, I mean to tell you the whole truth about Grace Noir." The name seemed to settle the atmosphere she could look at him, now. "I want you to understand that something is going to happen must happen, just from the nature of things, and the nature of wives and husbands and the other woman.
"Oh yes, I work. When my undigested lump gets too painful I try to work it off but what I do bears the same relation to real sure-enough work that playing tennis does to laying brick. But such as it is, it's real satisfaction I get out of my minute Vermont holdings. They come down to me from my farmer great-grandfather who held the land by working it himself. There's no sore spot there.
Elkins kept me well informed regarding Lattimore affairs; and the Herald followed me home. Jim's letters were long typewritten communications, dictated at speed, and mailed, sometimes one a day, at other times at intervals of weeks. "This is a sure-enough 'winter of our discontent," one of these letters runs, "but the scope of our operations will widen as the frost comes out of the ground.
Fitzroy, we Americans are rather pleased than otherwise if a man acts and speaks like a gentleman even though he has to earn a living by hustling an automobile, but your sure-enough British dames exact a kind of servility from a chauffeur that doesn't seem to fit in with your make-up.
"Perhaps you told him to pay for his breakfast, too," suggested the older girl, sarcastically. "We found a half dollar under his cup after he was gone." "A sure-enough half dollar?" asked Peace, too astonished to believe her ears. "Yes, a sure-enough half dollar!" "Where is it? I want to see it for myself." "On the pantry shelf.
They's a hatchet brand over close to Jackson's Hole, somewhere. Where'd the kid say he was from?" "He wouldn't say, but he's a sure-enough cowhand." "That there horse ain't been rode down on no long journey," Dirk volunteered after further scrutiny. And he added with the unconscious impertinence of an old and trusted employee, "Yuh goin' to put him on?"
"Angelina, she didn't mind my pursyflage, but she just stood there quiverin' all over, lookin' at her prize. "'Ith that my dolly? she says. "'That's your sure-enough dolly, little gal, I says. "She took hold of it her little arms was stiff as railroad ties and her hands was cold. "She looked at me again and whispered: "'Ith that my dolly, really, truly, mithter?
Their meeting was affectionate. Harry was beside himself with joy. He had really been under fire, with "sure-enough bullets" singing about his ears! This was something of which none of the boys who had scorned his blue-gray uniform could boast! "Our brother is a brave little fellow.
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