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"Thanks, awfully, old man," he said, "but it's a thing I'd rather do alone, if you don't mind." "Oh!" said Martin. "All right! But say, if you need me I'm on. You're a great old brick, though! Tra-la!" As Martin had surmised, Dunn found Cameron in his rooms. He was lying upon his bed enjoying the luxury of a cigarette. "Hello! Come right in, old chap!" he cried, in gay welcome.
"The lady is perturbed," he laughed, dodging a thrust at his neck; "she fences wide, tra-la," this as the barrel of his pistol parried a drive of her knife; "she hits afar ho ho not so fast, my fury not so furious, my fair zipp, ha ha ha another miss another miss the lady's a-miss," for the squaw's weapon struck fire against his own.
On the strength of a batting average of thirty-three point nought seven for Middlesex, he had been engaged by the astute musical-comedy impresario to whom the idea first occurred that, if you have got to have young men to chant 'We are merry and gay, tra-la, for this is Bohemia, in the Artists' Ball scene, you might just as well have young men whose names are known to the public.
I'd feel perfectly safe in your sanctum asinorum. Tra-la!" "He's as mad as a cat that's lost a mouse," said Kernan, hanging up the receiver and coming out. "And now, Barney, my boy, we'll go to a show and enjoy ourselves until a reasonable bedtime. Four hours' sleep for me, and then the west-bound." The two dined in a Broadway restaurant. Kernan was pleased with himself.
"Tra-la!" sang Miss Clairville, as she pressed heavily on the folds of a purple cloth skirt which had once done service in the "Grand Duchess," but was now being transformed by hot irons, rows of black braid and gilt buttons into a highly respectable travelling dress. "I thought at first of giving this old thing away, but see how well it's going to look, after all!"
Mary jumped up, amazed at the time she had wasted. Her spell of depression was over, and she was her usual cheerful self when, at three o'clock, she heard Stefan's feet bounding up the stairs for the last time. "Tra-la, Mary, the car is here!" he called. "Thank God we are getting out of this city! Good-by, Miss Sparrow, don't peck me, and come and see us at Crab's Bay. March, Lily.
With other vagabond wanderers, the Frenchman had evidently been rummaging old Nor'-West vaults. "Tra-la, comrade," he shouted, leaping out of the cellar as soon as he saw me. "I, Louis Laplante, son of a seigneur, am resurrecting. I was a Plante! Now I'm a Louis d'or, fresh coined from the golden vein of dazzling wit.
"I long for the sun!" retorted the child defiantly. There was a creaking of timber out in the yard. The child ran out and opened the door leading to the gallery. It was only the people opposite, who were tearing a step away. But then came mother, with a tin pail in her hand, and a bundle under her arm; and there was something in the pail it looked heavy. Tra-la- la! And the bundle, the bundle!
"I know," he said. "I was watching you. You were green under the paint, Grace." "If you'd spoken to me just then, I'd have screamed and had spasms," she laughed, "but now " she pointed victoriously to a maze of roses on her dresser "there are the flowers that glow under glass, tra-la! You wrote me the bulliest part I ever played, old pal. You made me a star."
And so I was hardly ever able to bring a new friend home without my grandfather's humming the "O, God of our fathers" from La Juive, or else "Israel, break thy chain," singing the tune alone, of course, to an "um-ti-tum-ti-tum, tra-la"; but I used to be afraid of my friend's recognising the sound, and so being able to reconstruct the words.
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