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'Show the gentleman where the bell is, and tell him he mustn't knock double knocks for the second floor; I can't allow a knock except when the bell's broke, and then it must be two single ones. 'Here, said Ralph, walking in without more parley, 'I beg your pardon; is that Mrs La what's-her-name? 'Creevy La Creevy, replied the voice, as a yellow headdress bobbed over the banisters.
As he brought with him a dawning remembrance that he had had no proprietary interest in those babies, I crossed the road, and accosted him on the subject. What's-her-name, as once lodged there but he didn't call it to mind, particular. Nettled by this phlegmatic conduct, I informed him that I had left the town when I was a child.
Later on, when the dancing was at its height, she exclaimed with all the fervour of a charmed imagination: "I feel as the Duchess de What's-her-name must have felt, Bobby, when she danced all night at her own ball, and then dressed for the guillotine instead of going to bed. We may all be shot in the morning." The Indian fakirs and showmen gave a performance in the courtyard at midnight.
"How about that next number?" asked Mike. "Are you and Windsor going to fill the whole paper yourselves?" "By no means. It seems that Comrade Windsor knows certain stout fellows, reporters on other papers, who will be delighted to weigh in with stuff for a moderate fee." "How about Luella What's-her-name and the others? How have they taken it?" "Up to the present we have no means of ascertaining.
Miss Derrick gave as good as she received; a battle raged for some minutes, differing from many a former conflict only in the moderation of pitch and vocabulary due to their being in a stranger's house. 'Then you won't come? cried the mother at length. 'I've had my journey for nothing, have I? Then just go and fetch Mrs. What's-her-name. She must hear what I've got to say. 'Mrs.
Aunt Myra, who discouraged the practice of reading for girls as unfitting them for any sort of useful work, used to declare that the very sight of a book made Cannie deaf and blind and dumb. "You might as well be Laura what's-her-name and have done with it," she would tell her; "only I don't know where to look for a Dr.
He never has trusted me even to light the lanterns. No, I'm afraid something has happened some accident. If the telephone was in working order I could soon find out. As it is, I can only wait and try not to worry. By the way, is your housekeeper Mrs. What's-her-name all serene after her wet afternoon? When did she return?" "She hasn't returned.
If this Madame What's-her-name comes out here to see me, I shall pack her off to town again so quick her head will swim. We have brought Kathleen up as if she was our own child, sir, and I don't care to have any suggestions from you, sir.
These things don't come to pass in a generation. I'm surprised at your lack of perspicacity. And those blue eyes of yours look so sharp, too. But perhaps your wish was father to your thought. She's probably a very great swell indeed, and I expect the Frau What's-her-name she's staying with will turn out to be her old governess or nurse or something. They think nothing of thirty-two.
"Oh, shut up! Of course a man knows when a girl's fond of him." "By no means, laddie. When you're my age " "I AM your age." "So you are! I forgot that. Well, now, approaching the matter from another angle, let us suppose, old son, that Miss What's-Her-Name the party of the second part " "Stop it!" said Bill suddenly. "Here comes Reggie!" "Eh?" "Here comes Reggie van Tuyl.
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