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I've never had enough money before, to treat you ... it's you that have always treated me." "Where'll we dine?" "At the swellest place in town, the Bellman House ... Walsh will charge me." Walsh Summers was the proprietor. Big, fat Walsh welcomed me and Travers. "No, Johnnie, I won't charge you. Instead, you and Jack are dining as guests of the house." And he would have it no other way.
Then came Meeting upon Meeting; but the Circus on Sunday night outdid almost anything in some respects, that I have ever witnessed in my life. It came upon me quite by surprise. The hour fixed was the same as the churches, and it had been predicted that we should not get an audience. It was right away outside the city, in a park in the swellest part of the suburbs.
This seemed to Pinney rather comical, and it might have led him to say some satirical things of the local society, if it had been in him to say bitter things at all. As it was, it amused his inexhaustible amiability that an honest man like himself should not be admitted to the company of even the swellest defaulters when he was willing to seek it.
"And dad asked me to coax you chaps to keep away from old Billings he's a regular bear, anyway. But to make up for that, to-morrow I'm going to take you to the swellest pickerel lake you ever laid eyes on." "You mean bass lake, don't you?" asked Jerry maliciously. "Pickerel and bass," agreed Tod without an instant's hesitation. "Let's turn in; we want to make an early start."
Moffat's example wrought an immediate miracle, so that, long before the fateful hour arrived, every registered bachelor was laboring industriously to make good the proud boast of their enthusiastic president, that this was going to be "the swellest affair ever pulled off west of the Missouri."
We is the it set, me and Tempie and Eph and all the fust family people. We's got our lawyers and dentists and a university and a ice-cream parlor with the swellest kinder soda fount in front. You heard how Mister David got that Country Club for us, didn't you? Well, he backed the rent notes of the soda fount, too and he's jest naterly the fust set candidate fer anything he wants ter be."
He finished his whisky and shouted to the landlord, who presently brought him another glass. 'What's that bird making the strange noise? 'A night-jar, I think. 'Nice to be sitting here, isn't it? I had rather be here than in the swellest London club. Well, I was going to tell you how I got out of that beastly life. You know, I'm really a very quiet fellow.
"Say, the swellest folks in New York fall over themselves to get invited here." "Why ain't he on Fi'th Avenyah, then?" demanded the other. "He makes the Fi'th Avenyah bunch come to him," explained the policeman, with obvious pride. "Took a couple of these old houses on long lease, knocked out the walls, built 'em into one, on his own plan, and, say! It's a pallus! I been all through it."
Indeed, thou art fully conversant with every branch of learning. In our great race thou art the only individual that swellest with all the sciences. I desire to hear from thee discourses that are interwoven with Religion and Profit, that lead to felicity hereafter, and that are fraught with wonder unto all creatures. The time that has come is fraught with great distress.
"I run into an outfit the other day, that's stored in town," he said, "an' it's kept me thinkin' ever since. Ain't no use tryin' to get you to guess it, because you can't. I'll tell you the swellest wagon-campin' outfit; anybody ever heard of. First of all, the wagon's a peacherino. Strong as they make 'em. It was made to order, upon Puget Sound, an' it was tested out all the way down here.
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