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"I'll have you understand that there are nine thousand people in the town I come from and not a rube among them. Why I tended soda fountain in the swellest drug-store there a whole year before I even thought of taking up nursing. And I wasn't as green when I was six months old as you are now!"
Honest, that coat was enough to make an eccentric song and dance artist green in the eyes! And you can believe me when I say I didn't lose any time in scootin' 'em down Fourth-ave. to a dollar a day house patronized by some of our swellest Texas buyers. My next move is to make a report over the 'phone. "Yep, I got 'em both under lock and key," says I to Marjorie. "Trouble to pick em out?
No white man, no matter what his ancestry may be, should be ashamed to greet any of those Negro cavalrymen with out-stretched hand. The swellest of the Rough Riders counted our troopers among their best friends and asked them to their places in New York when they returned, and I believe the wealthy fellows will prove their admiration had a true inspiration."
When Flint picks a bloomer like you to ornament the back office it will be because his eyesight's failed him. ...By the way, how do you manage to stand him off with religious tracts or a hat-pin?" She hardly waited for Claire's reply, but plunged at once into another monologue. "Do you know what I'm up to? I got my eye on the swellest fur-lined coat you ever saw ... at Magnin's.
"That's where I saw the dandy pumps with buckles on, and the swellest silk stockings. Louise, I'll get the bag for you, because I'm going over to Jake's to buy some of those things!" "Oh," exclaimed Louise, in a gale of laughter. "Those are our pumps and stockings. They were taken off from the beach." "You don't say?" and Kitty's tone allayed any possible suspicion. "That's just like Jake.
"Do you like to dance?" said Mabel Miller to Patty later, as they took places in a quadrille just forming. "Yes," said Patty, "and I know these quadrilles, but I never saw fancy dances like those you have here." "Oh, they're the latest thing," replied Mabel. "Professor Dodson comes from New York, and he teaches us the newest and swellest steps."
"Yes; and I guess, following the latest bulletin concerning Mr. Haney, we better put on our swellest ginghams." Alice, on her way home, continued to think of Mrs. Haney; indeed, she was seldom out of her mind. And she had a feeling of having known her for a long time since girlhood; and yet less than a year had passed since that dinner at Lee Congdon's.
And look at the divorces nowadays! Why try it at all? One girl reported as statistically accurate that there was one divorce in the United States to every four marriages. “You don't say!” was the chorus. The subject changed to summer hotels. One woman had worked last summer as a waitress at one of the beaches. That was the swellest job ever—just like a vacation!
Certain party is as cheerful as a chunk of lead about your trip, Bobby, but she makes the swellest bluff I ever saw that she's tickled to death with it."
I, mere journalist as I am, have the most friendly talks with the Prime Minister, and am a member of the swellest political clubs. We are a good deal like England, by the way: our middle-classes produce our leaders, our aristocracy lacks eloquence and talent, and has only a court influence. Our House of Commons is the most fashionable club.
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