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The beast walked with a peculiar gait which varied between an uncertain lockstep and a stampede but can best be described by the word "halting." The camel had a halting gait and as he walked he alternately elongated and contracted like a gigantic concertina. The Howard Tates are, as every one who lives in Toledo knows, the most formidable people in town. Mrs.
"Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows." "Give me champagne," said Perry. "Going to the Townsends' circus ball to-night?" "Am not!" "'Vited?" "Uh-huh." "Why not go?" "Oh, I'm sick of parties," exclaimed Perry, "I'm sick of 'em. I've been to so many that I'm sick of 'em." "Maybe you're going to the Howard Tates' party?" "No, I tell you; I'm sick of 'em."
Remained during the fight, while the city fell, and all my detailed men were captured; rode out of the city by the light of the burning buildings, and my road was lighted for twelve or fifteen miles by the burning city; borrowed horses about twelve at night, caught the last retreating train, put my servants Noel and Sam on it; rode on with my true friend Dr. Tates.
Fergus, took the best prize for strawberries and green peas. You'll understand that those airly tates were from seedlings of my own that's where their great merit lies, and why they were first. They gave Blakis the cottagers' prize for lettuce; that I uphold was wrong. Said I, 'Those lettuce heads that poor Raby shows air the biggest ever I set my eyes on, 'Swan, says Mr.
"Well," said Macy consolingly, "the Tates' is just for college kids anyway." "I tell you " "I thought you'd be going to one of 'em anyways. I see by the papers you haven't missed a one this Christmas." "Hm," grunted Perry morosely. He would never go to any more parties. Classical phrases played in his mind that side of his life was closed, closed.
"And if you ask him what the prize is for," said one of the girls, "he will tell you it is for 'airly 'tates." Accordingly the next day there was a gathering of Mortimers and their families.
Howard Tate was a Chicago Todd before she became a Toledo Tate, and the family generally affect that conscious simplicity which has begun to be the earmark of American aristocracy. The Tates have reached the stage where they talk about pigs and farms and look at you icy-eyed if you are not amused.
"Oh, I'm sick of parties," exclaimed Perry. "I'm sick of 'em. I've been to so many that I'm sick of 'em." "Maybe you're going to the Howard Tates' party?" "No, I tell you; I'm sick of 'em." "Well," said Macy consolingly, "the Tates' is just for college kids anyways." "I tell you " "I thought you'd be going to one of 'em anyways. I see by the papers you haven't missed a one this Christmas."
I shall stop here a few periods and enjoy my "Oatem cum dig the tates," as our skool master observes, in the buzzum of my famerly, & shall then resume the show biznis, which Ive bin into twenty-two yeres and six months. My naburs is mourn harf crazy on the new-fangled ideas about Sperrets.
But a little man named Warburton, who knew it all, found it necessary to hazard an opinion: "It came in with Mr. Tate. I think it's probably Warren Butterfield, the architect, who's visiting the Tates." Something stirred in Betty Medill that age-old interest of the provincial girl in the visiting man. "Oh," she said casually after a slight pause.