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Oh you dear darling!" cries Miss Stuart, stopping in the passage to give Edith a hug. "You don't know how frightened I've been that you wouldn't come. I'm in love with you already! And what a heroine you are a real Grace what's-her-name saving Charley's life and all that. And best of all, you're in time for the ball which is a rhyme, though I didn't mean it."
Coming along the corridor was that infernal what's-her-name Mrs. Vanderley's maid Pilbeam. Have you ever been accepted by the girl you love, Reggie?" "Never. I've been refused dozens " "Then you won't understand how I felt. I was off my head with joy. I hardly knew what I was doing. I just felt I had to kiss the nearest thing handy. I couldn't wait. It might have been the ship's cat. It wasn't.
She bobbed her head. "Yes, sir," she called in reply; "Petunia and I were looking at it." "Sho! Well, what do you and-er What's-her-name think of it?" Barbara pondered. "We think it's very nice," she announced, after a moment. "Don't you like it, Mr. Winslow?" "Eh? Oh, yes, I like it, I guess. I ain't really had time to look at it to-day; been too busy." The child nodded, sympathetically.
What's-her-name, has returned " One must crowd as much as possible into as little space as possible. That was hard on Missy, who loved words and what words could do. She wasn't allowed much latitude with words even for "functions."
Vincent Benedict, have arrived home after an extended tower of Europe," read Mrs. Brady. "Mrs. Benedict is much improved in health. It is rumored they will spend the summer at their country seat on Wissahickon Heights." "My!" interrupted Lizzie with her mouth full of fried potatoes. "That's that fellow that was engaged to that Miss What's-her-Name Loring. Don't you 'member?
The group of khâki-clad figures separated, and turned first to the Chief, then to the bright-eyed, bright-faced enthusiast. White teeth flashed in tanned faces, chaff began: "In love again, for the first and only time, Toby?" "Since he lost his heart to Miss What's-her-name, that pretty 'Jollity' girl, with the double-barrelled repeating wink, and the postcard grin."
"You might get board somewheres." This was a new idea. "Why so I might! Does Mrs. Hallard who raises chickens or Miss What's-her-name who cures ham, keep boarders?" "Nope. But they're not the only oysters in the soup There's the bell! They never give a man a minute's peace. Say, if you don't really like that pie, don't waste it see? Tell you about boarding-houses later."
'He'll want to marry again, won't he? 'Very likely, she answered. 'Probably already he's in love with that woman What's-her-name Madame Frabelle who's staying with you. Edith gave a little laugh. 'Perhaps he's in love with her already, continued Aylmer. 'Quite impossible! said Edith calmly. 'She's a very good sort. She's not a fool, like the girl. She'd look after Bruce very well.
There is also an aukwardness in speech, that naturally falls under this head, and ought to, and may be guarded against; such as forgetting names and mistaking one name for another; to speak of Mr. What-d'ye-call him, or, You-know-who, Mrs. Thingum, What's-her-name, or, How-d'ye-call her, is exceedingly aukward and vulgar.
"I am beginning to agree with that amiable scoundrel, Smith," he said, fixing his inscrutable gaze on the snapping coals in the fireplace. "A cleverer woman than this Miss er What's-Her-Name managed that affair at Burton's Inn." She watched his face closely.
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